BANGKOK | The Khao San Road Backpacker Scene
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.ย. 2024
- Walking around the touristy Khao San Road backpacker area in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Thanks a lot for watching and safe journeys!
Dang, I still remember your trip to Mexico/Belize and Guatemala. I've been watching you for 8 years 😂
Awesome. 👊
Love Bangkok. Visited Thailand last year. No city like it. Looking forward to Australia
It's always nice to follow an India trip with Bangkok. They go together like peanut butter and jelly.
Totally. I'm always glad to fly from Thailand to India because it's more interesting, and then I'm glad to fly back to Thailand because it's more relaxing.
Yep the food and standard of living increase exponentially when you get off the plane/
Wow Gabe, I am sooo looking forward to visiting Australia through your videos, have been waiting for years. Finally 🎇🎇🎇!!!
Good luck, take care, australia is really far
Wow , Australia, fantastic Gabriel, cant wait for the videos.
Just totaled up my Thailand trips and it's 16 since October 2009 and mainly stayed in Bangkok, my favourite city. I'm off to Marrakech on Saturday, a new country for me!
Awesome. 👊
Gabe, you might as well plan ahead on going to New Zealand as well since it is next door to Australia and probably will be a once in a lifetime for you, given that you don't venture in that region of the world. I've been to Sydney and Auckland, way back in May and June 2008, respectively. Let's just say that it was interesting and cold, especially since it was in June when I visited New Zealand.
B.M., why does going #2 come to mind when I see your name?
Right, onward ... Gabriel will be going to Oz and I'm happy as about that
Point you brought up about going to N.Z. is a great one! Why ever not as long as G. will be so close?
It's only March and ATM the weather in Sydney is perfect for early Autumn. The best time to visit here actually.
It is becoming cooler here in NZ now and winter and shit weather will be just around the corner. Better to come from Nov to Mar.
shorts shirts combo is off the chain
I'm not too fond of Bangkok but I live in Nakhon Sawan area with my Thai wife and have a couple of houses here in a small Thai village. I have been living in Thailand for 23 years and came out here with a friend from Boulder, CO, and started living in Koh Samui for about 12 years and still have a house there. May you always have safe travels, Peace
Dave, are you trying to flex all your houses that you own? Just wondering. Best wishes, Gladys, Oaklahoma USA.
@@gladyswilliams336Good for him , why not?
@Gladys Williams Might have been offering him a place to stay. Also interesting for me to hear how achievable realestate is outside the first world
Cheers! from Boulder. I'll be headed your direction shortly.
just left Bangkok a week ago, this is making me want to go back 😭
Bangkok is on my bucket list. It is somewhere I have always wanted to go.
I adore authentic Thai food, preferably cooked by Thai people.
Finally Australia. Looking forward to it. Thanks 😊
That soothing music at 13:00 was very enjoyable and great video.
Nice to see it’s getting back to some normality ❤ Miss Thailand
We were in Thailand for 3 months 2022-23 and loved it
A nice video would be to take the boat at Phra Athit (the river stop near Khao San) all the way to Saphan Taksin, from there you can take the BTS skytrain. The boat ride is very scenic with many interesting sights along the way such as Wat Arun, the outside of Icon Siam shopping mall, The iconic Oriental hotel. Enjoy it.
From siam area can then jump on the canal boats , doesn't go right to khao san but then a little 15/20 min back to it. ! Its a nice good loop day trip .
Drank way too much on this street quite frequently throughout my mid-to-late 20's. Great times!
Australia 🎺🎵✨😊☘️Wow looking forward to your next trip 🧭☀️☘️🌴🌟 your shorts rock, Gabriel 👍
Absolutely love Bangkok. Be back again in about 7 weeks ❤
I first visited Kho San Road in the 90's, then it was the backpacker zone. Today I would just call it a tourist area since it's become totally mainstream.
Yes. It seems brainwashed backpackers still try and party there even though it seems a shadow of its former self. This new generation will never get to experience real backpacking.
Absolutely
Yep back in 93, was kind of a little backpacker place as was Koh Phan Gan.
It's still a backpacker zone. "Real" tourists have plenty of other areas of Bangkok to stay in.
@@Nebula37 it's not at all.
"you could live here for the rest of your life .... would be a really bad idea, but you could do it" 🤣
Cool im here now too. See you around town.
I was there a few days ago, but it was a quick stop. I'm in Australia now.
Welcome to Thailand again. So glad you enjoy visiting Bangkok.
thanks for the video, this really takes me back to summer of 2009 when i first came visit thailand and just fresh off the bus here via airport shuttle
I love Bangkok. I miss it!
I LOVED your India vids! I was upset you left 😂
Me too 😂
I lived there for 3 years. @7:29 you walked past the best Indian restaurant in Bangkok
Our favorite capital in Asia and easily one of the best cities in the world 👌
Best news you're going to Australia!! I can't wait, it is one of my bucket list destinations!
Looking forward to seeing your Australia trip! i was in Melbourne 2007 a fantastic city a lot going on there
Just an FYI, from the little park you started in you can take a boat into Bangkok and from there it's really the best and certainly most scenic way to do it.
So nice to see your video of Bangkok! For the 16th of May I booked a flight to BKK, from India. Can't wait to be back there😍!
You have to see the Great Barrier Reef near Cairns, Uluru Rock near Alice Springs, obviously Sydney harbour and opera house for the sake of it. Brisbane is a good spot if you want a base to explore all the beaches from like Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast. Melbourne is very European like and busy. There is also pink lakes to see here near Western Australia. The country is huge so you have so many options. Let us know if you have any questions im sure many Aussies on here will be keen to help you out. You may find the public transport here very expensive in comparison to other countries so make sure you try travel off peak and Sundays some transportation is cheaper.
P.S WOW LETS DO AUSTRALIA GABE!! I hope you stay for months !!! ♥️
The shorts are killer!
I was there about a month ago. It was my first time solo backpacking and I had a great time. Great video Gabe
I enjoy your travel videos, they bring back memory's of my travels around India 30 yr ago.
Initial culture shock😮, the mix of pretty awful and beautiful, often in the same day.
I still love India, especially the countryside, villages, and music.
I thought I was cool..until on one visit I ran out of money in Mumbai, and couldn't get home for another 7 days, that was a humbling experience that has served me well over the years.
Now days I live in Chiang Mai, and travel the world via 4k You tube🙏
Wow, very nice to hear that you are finally visiting Australia, Gabriel. Have a nice time there and I am very looking forward to this series of videos, I will surely see every one of them. After that trip, if you have time, will and money, you can chill off in the mountains of New Zealand on the South Island as I know that you love the mountains after hot summer destinations. Although Australia also looks very big and diverse island and there is also interesting Tasmania.
Love Bangkok and Phuket !
Australia !! Awesome Gabe! Excited for you! It's on my list too
Nice. Looks very green, clean and chilled. Completely different to 25 years ago when I was there.
Excited to see your Australia vlogs
Living The Dream!! Been following your travels for years and want to say Thanks!! Inspiration!! Donnie in Arizona
We never did proper breakfasts in Thailand. It was straight into the Curries from as soon as we got up. Probably because we didn't get up until the early afternoon every day.
Thais make good jok(congee) for breakfast.
WOW! You're finally coming here after so many years! You were the first TH-camr I started to follow. You'll have a ball here! Can't wait for the videos. Safe travels. 🐨🐨🦘🦘 PS: The weather is PERFECT in Sydney at this time of the year.
glad to see its back to normal. flights are outrageous!! (from the usa)
Australia...Yes!! Finally, I can't wait...from Melbourne
You handle those spruikers like a pro.
he has more experience with them then anyone else on the planet
Personally I like staying in Asoke/Sukhumvit area. Basically it’s the center of BKK, but Khao San Road is certainly fun to visit!
Gabe - When you journey through the 'backpacker scene' is it like viewing a museum of the past?
Australia 😮 Yes 😊 So glad you will be visiting my homeland. I live in the city of Brisbane, if you need anything while in Australia, I'd be happy to help. It's a huge country, with towns and cities vast distances apart at times. But we offer so much natural beauty, I know you will explore all you can.
Have followed your adventures for many years and taken trips to South America, Central America and India based on your videos. I'm flying to Turkey and a few surrounding countries in May and June. Thank you for all your knowledge, time and energy in putting together my favourite YT channel.
So glad for this, Khao San Rd., backpacker scene, this could be a landing spot for my exploration of Baghdad, and likely will be after seeing this, thanks so much for this video.
Ahh, there's the number I've been curious about for a while! That's an insane amount of travel, I can only imagine some of the things you've seen and the adventures you've been on. Keep it up man, always love these videos.
Khoa San Road has certainly changed a bit from 1994 when I was last there.
Happy and safe travels, all the best Simon.
OMG excited your coming to Australia!!!! where you off to first here?
Khao San.. The best street in Bangkok, great video 💚
Thailand 🇹🇭 is really amazing.
Yayyyyy gabe,looking forwards to Australia
Ohhh Thailand, nice! I'm glued!
Thanks for sharing Gabriel. Great adventures and a wonderful way to live :)
I think this could be my next destination, later in the year.👍😊🇮🇪🇹🇭
Hey Gabriel traveller. Was just wondering, what backpack do you use?
Gabe if you end up in Brisbane please reach out I’d be more than happy to help show you around the sights and the city!
Walks by cannabis store, "I'm gonna cut this video short, just chill out and relax." Nice ^5
I used to dislike Khao San Road big time, but now I'm starting to feel the lure... but you're probably right, just the morning mellow mood there 😅 Awesome video, makes me want to go to Bangkok so badly again!
We cross paths again! See you around Bangkok.
This is the spot where I wandered off to one day,And found the best Ice cream. And weed is leagal ...well those two just add up! Time to start packing the bags again.
Legal*
I love the video. I just started but it's so hard
If you want to get to Bangkok central etc from Khao san, it's very easy. Take river taxi . Extremely cheap , and fast.
peaceful on a daytime but hell at nite
Its always trippy to see the video being edited
Lived in Australia for 3 years & travelled across the country 4 times, took the train 3 times & a flight took 5 hours alone 😳 massive country to explore but I think you’ll like the west coast ( Perth area) as it’s waaay more chilled out as compared to the east coast it’s like vegas on the beach a bit tacky for my liking 😮Sydney was interesting & if you’re there might as well take a boat over to Tasmania 🎉 have fun on your trip in Down under, should be a decent trip 😎 safe travels dude ☺️
I was there last week and stayed at the dismo mon hotel and the courthouse .. it’s just takky for an area .. and the homeless from McDonald’s too Khoa san road .. other parts of Bangkok though are worth a walk about and few elevators going into the sky .. love and light as always bro ♥️
India was an epic EPIC series! I’ll watch them all again for sure.
Australia!!! Whoop! Whoop! Never been! Think you’ll get to Tasmania?
Thanks for the update!
Sweet, glad to hear it. Yes, Tasmania is definitely under consideration.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos Tassie is a must
@@GabrielTravelerVideos Fly to Melbourne. Do a few days there and then just tour around Tasmania. It's got the best nature/ hiking in Australia IMO.
Thanks for the video Gabe!
Accommodation is still dirt cheap in Thailand really, however drinks and western style food in tourist areas are on the expensive side, looking forward to your Australia travels. Hello from Brisbane!
So, at first I was wondering, “wait, weren’t you just in Thailand not that long ago?” but after you explained that you’re basically there on an extended layover, then it made sense since I don’t think there are nonstop flights from India to Australia, or at least not from Bangalore. Anyway, I’m really looking forward to your Australia videos. They’re gonna be great, I know it. Keep up the good work
There's a direct flight from Bangalore to Sydney, but it's a lot more expensive.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos ah ok. I didn’t know that. Thanks for telling me
There are five non stop Qantas flights weekly from Bangalore to Sydney. Also three Qantas non Stop flights weekly from New Delhi to Melbourne and Daily non stop Air India flights from New Delhi to Sydney and Melbourne.
Wow Gabriel 😊 can't wait to see videos of Australia! Should be exciting! 😊❤ safe travels!
Welcome back to Thailand.
My first trip to Australia, I also flew via Bangkok. But I didn't get to see anything as only changed planes at the airport. So I am happy to see your Bangkok visit on the way Down Under!
Great to hear you’re coming to Australia
Hi Gabriel Australia really is a lovely country.problem now will be autumn. But if you travel up the east coast its hot .have fun and looking forward to the content
its not hot, mid 20c degrees
You don't have to get a taxi or tuk tuk to get to the other parts of Bangkok. Just head to the River and Phra Athit catch a ferry down to Saphan Taksin and you can get on to the sky train and Metro from there
I flew into Bangkok later that evening before flying on to Dubai and then back to the UK. Thailand is interesting but heavily westernised I had a walk around Khaosan rd a couple of weeks before probably still the same Alligator on that spit. :)
Good to see ya Gabe 👍.. Can't wait for Oz.. Take care man
You are getting a big thanks from me for taking us all the way up to Sikkim and to that market walkway made for organic. 🌲💚 I hadn't quite imagined the route yet and you also go into some varied and creative pathways to get there. Now I'd feel better about getting my Bangladesh friends to put me up there just north of Dhaka. I'm feeling okay about visiting some more organic farms near there. They're really everywhere and opening their doors to visiting.
The philosophical insights about origins dating back into the mists of history and introducing us all to more of Ganesha too are welcome. One can hope for assistance by moving away the many obstacles and taking writing into zone of bearing fruit. Enjoy your days. Don't forget.
Awesome! Was hoping you’d go to Australia next. Looking forward to it!
You will love australia, its a great time of year to visit.
You should stay for a month and experience Songkran in April!
Welcome to unexpect experience.
No way, I just spent 2 weeks in Bangkok… it was awesome, like a future city. I recommend Yaowarat road, Chinatown at night 👍
Just curious... What makes you pick the Ko San area to stay when you're usually just stopping over? (considering it's not really that close or convenient to get to from either airport)
I like that it's where a lot of other travelers hang out. I've stayed in hotels near the airports and there's nothing interesting happening there. Do you recommend any other parts of Bangkok?
Mango is the best! looks good there as a smoothie. probably all natural...just maybe almond milk with mano and maybe a banana?
I'm headed to Vietnam within the week to ride from south to north... Maybe I'll make it all the way this time!!! Bangkok looks optimum!! Can't wait to get there myself after my ride
Sweet, have an epic trip and drive safe.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos Thanks man! Will do!
By the way. This was one of the videos where you have been the funniest in. So many funny little quotes and things you say in this.
Cool. 👍 Also there's this one: th-cam.com/video/kUdgFWiwVJc/w-d-xo.html
so much cleaner and quiter! maybe thailand is the country ❤
I will be there next month for the water festival.i know all this streets,
Gabe, I see you're back in thailand, but within India, have you ever been to the Padmanabhaswamy Temple?
The shorts are cool, I want too! Maybe do some canal cruising if it's convenient? That doesn't get shown too much
Welcome back to my favorite city , this place isn't my hometown , by the way always love the big mango , stay safe..