We Spent the Night in a Tiny Beach House in Thailand (Travel vlog)

Lloyd & Mandy

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00:12hey you've had heaps buddy this has been like a burial ground for monks for like

00:252000 years or something what is that noise bats yeah let's not go in that direction where the bat noises

00:34are coming from honey

01:08okay i think we've arrived at our airbnb i'm not sure yep this is it

01:27i feel so off the beaten path right now where are we

01:54okay we just checked in to our tiny home on the beach in a little village in surat dhani called

02:01chong kram we have a couple nights stay over here just on our way to ko samui from khao sok

02:07national

02:08park if you didn't catch our last video we stayed at a another place here in chong kram just down

02:14the road which was absolutely amazing and completely unexpected and unplanned but we've

02:18got two nights here in this tiny house look at this view that we have from the balcony

02:31so as i said we just got here uh mandy's getting a tight massage in the room they're going to

02:36bring

02:37a masseuse over to the airbnb from the village because there's no like there's no shops there's

02:42no massage joints or anything here it's completely remote we kind of stumbled across this place by

02:47accident she's going to get a thai massage then we'll grab some dinner and the owner has already

02:52introduced himself super nice french dude he's going to show us a bunch of cool stuff to do tomorrow

02:58in the area that is really authentic and local that i think no other tourists have really done because

03:05he only opened this place a year ago and he said there's about 400 people living in this village

03:10a hundred of them are like relatives they're all related and there's no foreigners been coming

03:16through here until about a year ago so we might be some of the first people to actually visit here

03:21yeah what do you reckon so far i love it it's so peaceful the nature is amazing and everyone has

03:27been

03:27very very welcoming to lila like the love for babies here is insane

03:34yeah the last place we're at like they were obsessed with her and as soon as we walked in here

03:38too like

03:39everyone's just like going goo goo ga ga for lila and kissing her feet which we didn't know what it

03:45meant so i looked it up on chat jbt and it's basically just like a show of affection usually between

03:50family members to show the purity and innocence of babies which is pretty sweet

04:07okay i'm keeping my voice down because it's literally so peaceful here i hope you can still hear me

04:15mandy's getting a massage and i've just had a walk around the property and this place is incredible

04:22it's like just full of palm trees coconut trees they've got a garden with veggies cactuses

04:31there's a nice breeze coming off the water there's not much of a beach but like you're right on the

04:38water you can literally walk from the bungalow 20 steps and you're in the water i was just talking to

04:43the owner i've forgotten his name i always do that him and his wife built this place basically during

04:49covert because they needed something to do pretty much and it's incredible they've built this in a

04:54couple of years and look at it so hopefully i'm not over sharing i'll ask him if this is okay

05:02to share

05:02but i just had a chat with him and he explained to me basically that him and his wife have

05:07a business and

05:07work in bangkok his wife's family's from here and they used to spend like a couple of weeks or like

05:15a few days every month down here and they started with just building their little house as like a

05:22getaway but then when covert hit and their work sort of stopped they came and built a restaurant and

05:30accommodation basically just for their family spent some time making it really nice and then he just

05:37decided to build the four cabins just as a place for friends and family to stay like a family compound

05:43that had a restaurant attached to it so that they could give some of their family and the locals work

05:49he said that 90 of the income they generate goes back to the community and the locals and they give

05:57all of the locals work when they need it even if they don't necessarily need people working they get

06:01the locals in to work when the locals maybe need a bit of extra money we were talking about how

06:07i think anyway most of the time if you do something just because it feels right and you do it

06:12out of

06:13like i guess passion is the right word love i don't know i know it sounds corny nine times out

06:19of ten the

06:19money follows and this is living proof of that these four bungalows are booked out basically every day

06:27year round with no advertising just reviews from airbnb and that's probably because they give really good

06:36service and it's such a beautiful place and he even said like they could build four more and probably get

06:42them booked out all year round but they don't really have any interest in this being like some mega hotel

06:49business thing like this is just a nice sanctuary where they have their friends and their community

06:57around and it also happens to be a popular place for people to come and stay and generate some money

07:04that goes back into the family and the community and i think that's pretty cool hey guys we just want

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08:17so the manager of the airbnb has just brought us to this really unique buddhist monastery which is in the

08:24middle of the cave

08:25there's just one monk that lives here it's been around for like 2 000 years it's like a burial spot

08:30for monks that have passed away and other monks from different provinces come and pay their respects

08:37but we've just been told we're okay to film here and take photos and everything but not to talk about

08:46where it is or what it's called because i don't want it to get too busy so um we won't

08:50be leaving a link

08:51or anything there's a ton of dogs and monkeys here we've been told that the monkeys are super friendly

08:58not like in other places but it's still it feels sketchy yeah oh my goodness

09:08no no

09:13why just give it to him hold

09:22jesus why does that one look different than the other ones yeah this one has red face

09:28red face there's at least 30 monkeys right here and we're just giving him bananas

09:32oh that one's got a baby it's a little baby she's holding it this is how i am it's ayla

09:46oh no no no no no no no no no no hey

09:57see how that one jumped

10:07oh

10:07is this for the dogs or the food for

10:09this is so weird they're bouncing around everywhere

10:24i don't scratch no

10:29freaking me out man

10:32you don't worry you're poking tonight

10:38they look very scared actually

10:40it's just um

10:42still unpredictable

10:48oh that's so sweet

10:54hey you've had heaps

10:57buddy

11:03they're scared of the dogs they're scared of the dogs yeah

11:06want some

11:08some food

11:10look at this little one

11:12it's so cute

11:13don't jump on me they make they sound like lila

11:15cool cool cool they're like cool cool

11:23cool where's the baby there's a little baby up there

11:29that's lila

11:37they must have some scraps with the dogs a very different experience to our usual encounters with

11:44monkeys usually they like are aggressive and they'll try and snatch things out of your hand

11:49these ones are very very timid and they seem to be afraid of the monk as well as the dogs

11:56they've probably just been disciplined or something I'm guessing but um yeah they just gently like grab

12:02the food out of your hand and run away they are making some weird noises oh wow does this go

12:20down

12:20yeah all right now we're talking just heading down into the cave wow Jude was telling me that um this

12:31has been like a burial ground for monks for like 2,000 years or something and other monks come to

12:39visit from all over Thailand it does smell like a cave oh I just stepped in something not good watch

12:56your feet

12:58there's monkey poo all over the ground that's probably what it is

13:08she's always so calm when we're temples i think she likes temples i think so too i do too i

13:15think she can

13:15sense the energy

13:24bats

13:28bats

13:29yeah we can hear bats in the background i don't know if you can hear that

13:53wow this just keeps going and going doesn't it yeah this is massive i thought it was just going

14:00to be one little tiny little room in a cave it's really big

14:24yeah let's not go in that direction where the bat noises are coming from honey

14:31a few too many for my liking i think i'd rather go the other way

14:37oh and here looks cool

14:44wow what's that

14:45oh and this one there's some really cool statues here

15:00that's a real body that's the real monk's body yes no no no no no no no no what do

15:06you mean

15:07underneath okay yeah yeah there is a mummified oh no underneath underneath okay wow is it okay to film

15:27i believe that's the original monk that was buried here i've got a statue of him and a photo and

15:36then

15:36there's these gold monk statues as well

15:39so

15:46so

15:48so

15:50so

16:10this goes massive

16:22i'm kind of happy to be out of there yeah we shouldn't have watched that movie that we watched

16:29about the cave that flooded and all the kids got stuck in it yeah what was it called like

16:3419 below or something like that yeah we'll put it on the screen it's a thai movie it was really

16:40good

16:41the young thai soccer team boys that um in shang rai went into a cave sort of similar to that

16:51but a

16:51lot bigger and then a really big rainstorm hit and they got stuck and like the whole country and

17:00um even other countries like australia and the uk flew people out to get them out and uh won't ruin

17:07the

17:07the ending for you but it was a really really good movie and i think the only thai movie we've

17:11ever

17:12watched and it was excellent

17:14like

17:15and i'm

17:20and i'm

17:41and i'm

17:42and

17:43and i'm

17:48she's been so happy here we need one of these swings at home that's what it is yeah it's been

17:54a week since we left and um I just realized we've been like off grid the whole time we started

18:01at

18:02the tree house in Renault and then we went to the floating resort in Khao Sok and now here like

18:09we

18:10haven't really been in civilization for a while it feels longer than what it's been yeah but tomorrow

18:19we're catching the car ferry over to Koh Samui we went there in 2022 just after Covid and it was

18:28like

18:28dead nothing going on a lot of businesses shut down I've been told that it's hectic it's like

18:36Bali level traffic now so I guess that would be like back to civilization it'd be interesting to

18:42see how much it's changed since we were there last yeah we're gonna spend a week there maybe longer

18:48if we like it I guess we booked a week though not easy to book accommodation I couldn't believe not

18:55to sound like a whinger or anything but I couldn't believe how expensive accommodation is at Koh Samui

18:59and Phuket I don't remember it being that expensive like anywhere decent four stars and above you're

19:06looking at like 500 bucks a night yeah it wasn't like that before well it definitely wasn't like

19:12that last time we traveled maybe it just it's been a while since we've traveled to a popular place in

19:18peak season we always usually go in like shoulder season when it's raining or something yeah true yeah I

19:23don't know is Thailand like starting to get unaffordable accommodation now not unaffordable but

19:29like it used to be somewhere you come because it's cheap which food and everything still is but 500

19:36bucks a night for a room it seems like accommodation everywhere is expensive sort of now but like you can

19:44still get affordable meals and things but like accommodation yeah yeah short-term accommodation is

19:50expensive but long-term not so much yeah even here like which is really really nice it's awesome

19:58it's pretty basic though and it was a couple hundred bucks a night feels like when we started

20:02traveling that would have been at least half the price right yeah I mean when we started in Bali

20:07we were pretty much staying in a tiny home just like this like a guest house same setup pretty much

20:14and it was like 50 a night yeah and I'm sure and it's not anymore that that apparently that place

20:22is just ridiculously expensive so so we're heading somewhere new if you want to follow along don't

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