China Wanted Laos' Largest Island.. Lao People weren't having it! | BIG WET E20
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- Don Khong, Largest Island in the 4000 islands of Laos and China wanted it for a SEZ (special economic zone). The people of Don Khong weren't having it!
China Wanted Laos' Largest Island.. Lao People weren't having it! | BIG WET E20
Explore this giant of an island in the 4000 island system of the Mekong river with us and see how the people live and work here.. Enjoy!
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Sabaidee and welcome to my channel....Now in Lao!!
My name is Todd and i am an Australian currently living in Laos with my wife, Neenee.
This is a channel primarily dedicated to Laos and the people who live here, our daily lives and our travels within this amazing country. Thank you for watching and if you have any questions at all, please don't hesitate to ask, by either commenting or contacting me via Facebook.
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Hi Todd & NeeNee. Mina is such a joy. I really commend you and Neenee for what you have done for her.👩👩👧
Hey Phil.. thanks mate!
Harriet and I can't comment enough on how you have opened our eyes to a country and its people we knew little about. We thank you. Don Khong is quite a resort. Were there many people staying there when you were there? The fish meal you ate is to die for. Another stand out video with great music from the master. Hope you and Neenee and Mina are doing ok Jim and Harriet. Richmond, Va.
Always great to have you both along Jim, take care mate 🙏
Great to see Little Mina coming along Todd+Nenee!! Good Parenting from the Both of You hey theres another Hayes added!!! As for the Rubbish we have the Same Problem in the Villages in Issan Although its Getting better over the years Yes Its all down to Education! My Next Trip im Going to the Local School Regards this Problem hopefully it will be Taken up
Good man. As ya know Bruce, we both grow up with the 'Do the right thing' campaign. People need to be educated about it, not told to do something 👍
I agree with the other person who commented on the montage of black & white stills at the end. Nice touch. I'll be moving to Veintiane in a couple of weeks, your vlog has been such a wonderful orientation and source of information. Thanks. All the best.
I see it now. 2034 Olympics Swimming gold metal for Mina. 🥇 She loves to swim. Thanks again Todd.
I re-visited don det just before covid after about 10 years of absence and remember reading about the Chinese monster casino complex plans and was thinking it might be last time I see it in it´s beauty. Happy it didn´t come to be.
Hell yeah. They need to be left alone.. as is and undeveloped. Magical place the Islands 👌
🤗🙏🏼!
Enjoyed the video, thank you. The southern has its own charm, just as interesting, thank you for showing us end to end.
Have a great weekend.
You have a good one too 😉👍
Hey Todd, plastic bags seem to be a problem throughout south east Asia l think. Not good, needs an education program for it. Take care Nev.
They certainly do mate 👍 Hope you guys are well 👌
All good
Awesome accommodation and location,and Lao owned soley . ........ Kenno ...West Aust
Not just education. Every society has selfish arseholes who litter, so you need some authority to fine them. (Even if it doesn't prevent the behaviour, it can pay for the cleaning up.)
🎶 🎵 at beginning of video is awesome with your wonderful touring
Nice videos.
👍🙂always good
I arrived in Savannakhet yesterday...hoping to catch up with you all some day...great video, I have friends who live in Pakse so I'll definitely be visiting...take care mate
Very good editing!!! Enjoyed the video
Thank you
Todd as always a fun and informative vlog
Great seeing Mina is so happy
Great hotel mate
Thanks Ted 👍
What an intro guys and girls. Love your work ...from Sydney Todd and co.
Great stuff buddy! Really enjoyed that video. Never knew Lau had those islands to be fair. Nice eye opener video. Thanks Todd 👍🏽🙏🏼🇬🇧
Man.. you need to treat yaself and hightail it down to them.. magic spot mate 👌
@@NowinLao I know my I do have to do next year. Thanks for give me the push buddy I do appreciate the good work in content you put out there 🙏🏽👊
Mina looks so cute with teeth missing😂❤. Wow 😳 what a top spot 👍👌🦘🦘🙏lao owned🙏
Whoa those black and white stills are amazing Todd... another job well done.... your ability to combine the vlogs to the music is award winning material....
Thanks Jordi.. 🙏
In my village the back of the house is the beach and that’s the rubbish dump, the front of the house is the road on the inland side. Beach was filthy when I arrived on the scene, I cleaned my beach then everybody came to sit on my beach because it was clean, they would leave their rubbish behind. We have very different ideas about rubbish, ten years later I am still picking up broken glass along the beach😢.
You could see Don Som from the bridge. Only about 5 km from us. We hope to meet you here next time....
Good luck with the videos! They're great.
Thank you, Todd, and thank you for those wonderful black and white pictures. BEG WET E20 is in the books, I'll be here for E21.
Cheers mate.. working on it now 😉👍
That’s a beautiful place.
Hi Todd,
I love following your life in Laos and the great work you do.
I really love your chosen video music.
Greg 🙏
Appreciate it Greg, Thanks
Oh Todd , you have brought back memories. Visited Laos in 2014. Survived landslides from Phonesavan and had to fly to Vientianen
and Pakse. Ferried across to Don Khong and stayed in the accommodation across from your reception area. Would love to go back but unfortunately getting too stiff in the joints. Love your videos. Greetings from Perth. WA.
Hi Jean.. You have the memories. I'm glad I can bring them back to life for you in my videos. Thank you for your comment and stay well 🙏
I just commented the trash issue to my wife yesterday how clean and tidy it is around ChiangRai today compared to 25 years ago. She told me the cleanup campaign started with the kids in school who then educated their parents.
It's hard to tell people what to do.. you're better off teaching them what to do 👌
When I came to the Philippines the normal thing if you have trash is to throw it on the ground. Both adults and children did that.
Mina is really enjoying.
Three years that i see your vidéos. It is always à real pleasure my friend. I wish you à lot of happiness in this beautiful country ! Nicolas from France.😊
You've been following a long time Nico.. thank you 🙏
Thank you ❤️🙏😇
Back in the 70’s, in the US, there was a commercial campaign on littering. There was a Native American looking at litter, then having a tear in his eye. Very prolific.
I remember those commercials,he was of 0% Native American. He was of Italian decent,born Espera Oscar de Corti in 1904.
@@rider660r
Not many folks know that. ; )
@@MichaelJonesC-4-7 Very few,and many today won't even take the time to look it up and think you're just full of BS..
Don Khong short for Donkey Khong .. lol Todd. Beautiful part of the planet mate. The little mermaid. Bushyboy Oz
Mate, people still dump rubbish in the HEZ. Because tip fees are high.
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That’s a great distance you’ve all traveled agree 100% the waste management system is extremely poor in almost every province it’s the first thing tourists see a solution is urgently needed for the benefit of all…!!!
Going there today for the weekend.
Great stuff mate!
i love watching your videos brother. makes me miss the homeland!! i do have a question. what business do you think would be a good one for the Country at a local level. I keep thinking of bringing the internet there or water treatments and purifications but would definately love your input.
That hotel is a ripper!❤
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Anyone happen to know who sings the last/closing song of the video? My shazam app couldn't find it. I listened to the lyrics and typed them into google bard and it told me it's a song by Claire Rosinkranz "Come along with me" released by her as a single back in 2020. I looked her up on youtube and it definitely didn't look to be her style along with not finding any video from her titled "come along with me."
I'd really like to know. Thanks
Forgot the Mark Weins smirk 😊
hi guys
Is that red shirt one of your favorite shirts? I see you wear it on many videos. I have the same exact one and it is very comfortable and breathable. I seem to have a hard time finding that same design on my last trip in Thailand.
Lol.. yes it is, and for the same reasons you stated. Bought it in BKK some years back with a brown one also. Both fit very well, cool and comfy.. and like yourself, haven't seen them since 😔
hi Todd, those boats would have been a lot older than you think. it's not uncommon for people in south east Asia to keep using boats passed down from one generation to another. I wouldn't be surprised if they were 400 + years old.
You maybe right mate.. you don't see dug outs like that too often 👍
Did I miss something? On NeNee’e vlog she said the Chinese are going to build something on the old airstrip in Vang Vieng?
In lieu of building the Singapore High Speed train through Laos - we'll take an island
Hey champ, Can you advise on a decent drone to buy, a novice who wants to learn to fly? Are they cheaper here in thailand or Australia? Any tips?
Hey Rob.. good entry level would have to be the DJI Mini.. small, easy to learn on and still has great video 👌
Pretty much the same price wherever you buy mate. Probably cheaper online tho..
www.jbhifi.com.au/products/dji-mini-2-se-drone-fly-more-combo
It will take education of young people to change attitudes about rubbish and caring about their beautiful land. I imagine it will take a couple of generations to have a positive behavior engrained. More tourism equals a better economy for the people.🌺
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Cheers brother 👍
Why don’t you buy a Carryboy the the truck then you won’t have to change your truck 👍 Another great video 🙏🙏
Todd, I met a Lao girl on Facebook we’ve been talking for almost a year now and I decided to finally got meet her in person in February. Your opinion, is that good or bad?
Taking your time to get to know her is a positive 👌 I wish you all the best.
Oh, and going back to earlier in the video, the dog could have been bitten by a snake apart from having Parvo or Distemper which would be rampant over there!!!
Nice meal of fish, that is some really big chunks of filets and nice tempura batter fried, makes my mouth water, Your killing me Todd haha. What a nice location and a really nice suit to sleep in with a real toilet, not a squater pooper. The people were nice everywhere you went at this location. I just love some of the designs of the homes on stilts, they have the real Asian style feel to them. I still love the temples in so many villages. My apologies, but China needs to stop land grabbing from these little countries like Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. they are funding the takeover of Myanmar and the civil war in that country. I am proud of the Lao people who told them no, because it is such a beautiful place, and they are raising cows which is really nice for the people with their little farms along the river. Mina seems to just love being around you both and I have to see how you both became her new parents, but so glad you have a little one to raise with great morals and respect and she will be well educated and I know she is loved as Nenee is always so young playing with Mina and Mina has you as a great father figure, love you all, your great parents and so kind and understanding to everyone you meet, what a blessing. I agree that cleaning up the trash is a health important issue. They need to clean and teach the children to not just throw trash on the ground. Set up cans or pits to burn the trash and everyone will start to follow and ingrain it into their lives. It is such a lovely place and the trash is just a sad sight, but most don't have trash disposal locations, that is why pits or drums can burn the trash when it is full, it all starts with education. thank you once again for another nice town to visit and the music is once again great, Chris Issak I don't want to fall in love is a great tune. I am happy to be back and enjoying your company since we are the same age and I would so love to throw back a few suds with you and talk about our lives, I think we would have an amazing conversation. I am not giving up yet Todd, one day mate, I hope to meet face to face. 😉❣I hope you find that old red shit with the yellow star you are looking for. God bless and stay safe on your travels, oh, and by the way I really like your new ride, you can now drive through low rivers and not stall out. Moving up in the world mate. Have a nice frosty for me and stay frosty mate while enjoying your life I have always wanted. Blessings and love from the frozen tundra of North Dakota USA my good friends. Peace be with you my brother from down under✌🙏✝
Ha Ha, To the Chinese. What make a special economic zone or just completely spoil the place just like Sihanoukville. What a way to completely ruin somewhere unspoilt for centurys.
Plastic bags are banned here and most African countries.
I read that the Mekong is one of the ten rivers that are the source for 90% of the land based plastics that end up in the ocean. Most people don't have a good option for disposal. Much of the plastic is just burned. We both like the live and let live attitude of Lao but Lao are not going to say 'Hey buddy, pick up your trash.' I have avoided going to 4,000 Islands because I don't like the backpacker environment. You have shown me that there are other ways. Lao should appoint you and Neenee TH-cam ambassadors for Lao!
You are spot on there.. Very little options for disposal! I can understand your reasoning for the islands with all the backpackers that visit. Don Khone is better than Don Det as far as that goes with better accom also.. but Don Khong really blew me away. Getting that whole chill laid back island experience and being able to come and go as you please with your own transport. Will definitely be returning there for some R&R in the future 💚
Cheers mate
Chinese economic zone, bullies c.c.p that is 😡
What is China's fascination with other people's islands?
China should think about occuping vietnam or some of it's islands which is also a comunist country,what will that response be.
Did you see what the Chinese did in the Philippines?
Remind me..
@@NowinLao china took the Philippine sea from the Filipinos and built up the military filing in the ocean with sand. They won’t even let the Filipino fish there. They did all of this while the U S military wasn’t there. Since then they have now allowed the US military to protect them in the country. The new president thank god brought the US military back to the Philippines. Without them china was having a field day
Right yeah, I knew they did that.. Thought they might've been up to something else
Hi guys another great video, here in Australia this week we hear the news of how china has dept trapped Lao and Lao can't pay back the money to china. Not good for the country of Lao and its people. Cheers from Australia.
China is on a debt trapping roll. For one just ask Sri Lanka.
Tod, the most concerning part of this vlog was the total disregard of the locals, 25 minutes in, to the filthy rubbish discarded as far as their arms could hurl it and nothing done about & present company wondering in not seeing / worrying about it chatting about nonsensical topics.
Must be the way it is over there!
todd you missed out on a boat ride for 25 bucks. its not the destination its the journey and the memories. let neenee take the wheel your driving with one hand on your wallet. as far as the rubbish in the philippines it was so bad and at the most beautiful beach i was swimming and a freaking diaper washed up on me. they destroyed the place with it. and they wonder why nobody wants to visit.
There's a difference between a boat ride and being taken for a ride 😉
3 of us and car cost $2.50
@28:45 That is an absolute disgrace 😤
Ol' Rado looking pretty dirty to be staying at such a nice hotel. 💩
Looking like a sac o' shit! 😝
Rubbish problems are not unique to Lao Toddy. The people the just don’t care in Australia are many. Pity for you if you live the time it takes to eat take away KFC or Maccas. You gonna get all the rubbish thrown straight from the car onto the road infront of your hou.
Some of those dogs look like dingos
He was a big boy 👌
China have to pass Laos to take over Vietnam 😂
maybe Laos should tell China to remove their high speed railways and leave them alone to their sorry economy.
Glad to hear that some Lao people resist China greed...It would really be a shame to see these beautiful islands becoming chinese colonies...
Laos looks invaded by Aussies for now 😂
China owns Laos. This could be the only island that they dont own. The public guaranteed debt is nearly 100% of GDP.
All 4000 Islands are in the hands of Lao.
Debt is at 68%.. Haters will always stretch the truth.
Hej Todd. Greedy China taking Laos for one of it's colony.
About thrash everywhere: the solution will comefrom the young generating through schooling. They will "educate" their parents. Plastic bags has to be eliminated because it's a long term problem.
All the best to you 3.
oh yeah without China's assistance Laos would be in a dire situation. Laos may be seen as ungrateful lot mate.
Didn't i tell you in one of your episodes when the connection between Laos and China Rail system and businesses that they put up is a signal that should not be disregarded that they would attempt to move in and take over Laos little by little they build and profit from t yet what will Laos get from it.
Well, in this case these people got a nice new concrete road and fancy bridge, then told China where to go. This time China DID NOT get what they wanted. 😉
@@NowinLao Thank goodness
China already own laos pretty much by now.
you are a very good person and you help poor people in Laos a lot, you do this not only with words, but also with deeds...
many of your videos are wonderful and I watch with pleasure....but please don’t politicize the title of that video “China Wanted Laos' Largest Island...”
you apparently don’t know there will be bad consequences for Laos because of such a name...
I have absolutely no doubt that you love Laos just like Australia, just like I love Laos, because I myself am Laotian, my parents are Laotians and my great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers are all Laotians...
because any war begins with incitement to hate each other between countries...and they are easily promoted by incitement to hate each other between countries using TH-cam or Facebook, especially with neighboring countries...and war, as you know, means poverty and destruction in a country like 50-100 years ago...therefore, there is no need to incite hatred between countries, especially neighboring countries, because any import and export begins with a neighboring country, and not with a country 1000 km from it...I have seen a lot of many Laotian bloggers and foreign bloggers who do not understand the consequences, as for example they say when the Mekong is dried up or flooded, they always blame China...and they don’t need their reasons, they just know that the Mekong River begins with China and therefore China is to blame, etc...Yes, the Mekong starts from China, but there are only very small parts of them, and there is no platinum in it... and the main platinum is located in Laos (Laos is called the ASEAN battery country and now has more than 70 platinum), but no one says this...Yes, the war in Ukraine was not a year ago.... it started a long time ago 20 years ago and it begins with inciting hatred of each other between Ukrainians and Russians with the help of television channels, TH-cam and Facebook...if anyone thinks that Ukraine is an independent country, then you are mistaken, Ukraine has long been a colony of America, they are not ruled by the presidents of Ukraine, but by the American embassy in Ukraine...and the war in Ukraine is not a war between Ukraine and Russia, but a war between NATO (the American leadership) and Russia, and Ukraine is only land and human resources that America uses to fight Russia and nothing more...
Read The Budapest Memorandum 1994 before you post opinion on something you obviously do not know anything about! Ukraine was the 3rd biggest nuclear power after 1991. 1994 Us,France,England and Germany signed a pledge to protect and aid Ukraine if they sent their nukes to Russia. Now that pledge is due!
@@rubennilsson5416 Do you think I don't know this? But how is it memorial that the West does not have the right to expand NATO’s borders closer to the Russian border? and after the collapse of the USSR, Russia is now surrounded by NATO countries?
@@rubennilsson5416 I’m not saying that we should hate Americans, Europeans, blacks, whites, Chinese, etc... but on the contrary, we should not incite hatred of each other...people have nothing to do with it, but their government, where America’s feet are, there is war and destruction in the country...Laos was also a neutral state, but America bombed Laos more than any country in the world, but no one knows, because they don’t need it, and only after 30-40 years, people in the world know about it (through the museum in Vientiane).. .Yes, you won’t see the truth on TH-cam, Facebook about the war in Ukraine, about China... because TH-cam, Facebook belong to America and 95% of the videos about the war in Ukraine and about China are lies from the West and any channel or bloggers who are trying to convey the truth to people, they will book...
you see, first they block a channel that has more than a million subscribers, and then 100,000 subscriptions, and now they block more than 10,000 subscriptions if that channel is trying to convey the truth about Russia or China (perhaps many do not know that there is no TH-cam in China)....China and Russia are the main enemy for America, because these countries can prevent America from dominating the earth... Ukraine is like a springboard for America against Russia, like Taiwan for China, Pakistan for India....Do you think that Russia is an occupier for Ukraine? no, Russia is only defending itself....Ukraine has long been under America’s control and they would still attack Russia, and Russia would only attack first, before they attack Russia...the occupier would not have been given a passport and in all equal Russians, the occupied would not have built houses for free for you and many others...
@@rubennilsson5416
you apparently don’t know how many TV channels there are in Ukraine, they closed them down and put a lot of people in prison... but they won’t tell them this, because it benefits them, that’s how the Democrats in America...the words democrats are an invented America to govern their colonies, those who are under them are democrats, and those who are against them are ditaturs....
"China Wanted Laos' Largest Island.. Lao People weren't having it!" That is not inciting hate.. that is saying it how it is, plain and simple without tip toeing around anybody's sensitivities. No hate.. China wanted it.. they never got it. Move on.. they did.
Are you just learning about china? Thailand figured this out early and do not allow foreigners to buy their land.
Lao doesn't allow foreigners to buy land either. Like Thailand they can long lease 😉
try find something cheap made in Australia in Laos.
@@MrBlurpBlurp-hg3dj Try finding something cheap made in Australia anywhere! Nice try 😏
Stand your ground Laos Chinese tourist acceptable but Chinese trying to take your land and occupy it very unacceptable.
Great vlog as always Todd. Good for the people of that village refusing to let the Chinese take over...............for now! Sadly, Laos and to some extent Thailand are part owned by China due to the amount of debt they are in to China. It is only a matter of time until China try to recall that debt and upon non payment they move in. About rubbish, I don't know what the answer is. Thailand made some effort to curb the use of plastic bags on one day a week, and most supermarkets now sell you bags for 1 baht, if you need them, but street traders totally ignore any government instructions, and as there are no sanctions the rubbish mounts up. However, their are "Wombles" who rummage through the discarded rubbish and recycle plastic bottles, cardboard, glass etc. and make a living out of rubbish. This BIG WET series is amazing. Thank you and God bless you all 😀❤🙏
I’m glad Laos people are not fooled by China and allowed to take the islands. I hope it’s not a lie to Laos 🇱🇦 people. It would be the worst thing that ever happen to Laos🇱🇦.
Was good hearing the Lao people stood up to them and won. No, China has invested in a SEZ further south closer to Khonphapeng falls near the border. Massive casino and hotels are nearly finished now. Keep the islands for the Lao 👌
Laos still under 🇨🇳 rule and in debt forever to china 🇨🇳.. From the new train 🚂 to loans . Laos will never be able to repay and will soon give up.
That is how china overtakes other countries, is to loan, and try to built their country then take over. All the Lao government pocketed all the monies but rather use it to built their country so that’s what happen then they relied on other country like china to help and now they’re gonna take over Laos.
Bro, I feel your pain. It's a big problem down here also. Needs big educational input to encourage change. I'm up for a challenge if you guys are 🙏