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Explore Bangkok on a solo city adventure, from the green paths of Lumphini Park to sunset views from the Mahanakhon Skywalk. The day begins in Thailand’s first public park, then continues with a tuk-tuk ride to one of the city’s best-known attractions.
This Bangkok travel vlog captures two popular tourist spots and offers an easy way to experience the city virtually. Follow along for urban travel inspiration, a peaceful park visit, tuk-tuk travel, and a dramatic change of scenery above Bangkok before sunset. A travel video for anyone planning a Bangkok itinerary or exploring Thailand’s capital from home.
This Bangkok travel vlog captures two popular tourist spots and offers an easy way to experience the city virtually. Follow along for urban travel inspiration, a peaceful park visit, tuk-tuk travel, and a dramatic change of scenery above Bangkok before sunset. A travel video for anyone planning a Bangkok itinerary or exploring Thailand’s capital from home.
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00:00Coming up on Lloyd and Mandy.
00:04It said Bangkok is the hottest city in the world, which kind of blew my mind.
00:09I have no idea where we're going, down some back alleyway.
00:12As he drove off, they saw my phone sitting on the seat somehow and yelled out.
00:17Now I'm going to head into the sky deck and it looks f***ing high, like ridiculously high.
00:35Man, it's f***ing crowded here.
00:38All of a sudden there's perfume and alcohol and luggage and watches and handbags.
00:43So I don't know what's going on.
00:48What the f*** are we getting out of here?
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02:42Alright, now let's get into the episode.
02:46G'day guys, welcome back to the channel.
02:48I am flying solo here for a couple of days in Bangkok.
02:53Mandy's holding down the fort, back at home, looking after Bear.
02:56I had to come up here for a couple of reasons and I'm just spending two nights up here and
03:02I've decided to give Mandy a little bit of a break from travel and she's at home and speaking
03:07of Mandy, actually we want to give a shout out to everybody who helped make her feel really
03:12special on her 30th birthday a couple of weeks ago, especially the Sundance Day Club in
03:18Hua Hin.
03:18We went and visited there.
03:20I planned a special day for her and as soon as they found out it was her birthday they
03:24gave us like the ultra special treatment, they upgraded us to a private cabana and we
03:30got amazing food, even a birthday cake for her and drinks and basically a private pool to
03:36ourselves.
03:36It might just be our new favourite pool club in Hua Hin.
03:42So if you're heading to Hua Hin anytime soon, go and check it out, Sundance Day Club, we'll
03:46leave the link down below.
04:09So today I'm coming to you from Lumpini Park.
04:13I think it's Lumpini, it could be Lumpini, Lumpini Park here in the middle of Bangkok,
04:19which is actually the first ever public park in Thailand, which was donated by King Rama,
04:26I believe the third.
04:28I did do a little bit of reading about it on my way here and it used to be just
04:33his land,
04:34his own private land.
04:36And then after he died, he left it in his will to give it to the public.
04:40So it became Thailand's first public park.
04:43It's about 142 acres, which is absolutely massive.
04:47It doesn't feel that big when you're here.
04:49There's a track that goes around it, which is about two and a half kilometres long.
04:54So if you're someone who's staying in Bangkok around this area, it's a good place to come
04:58early in the morning for a run.
05:00But during the middle of the day, like right now, it's about 3.30 in the afternoon, I just
05:05got here and it is absolutely ridiculously hot.
05:10Like you have to sit in the shade if you want to walk around the track, it's too hot.
05:13I actually read on the internet just the other day, I saw it on a post somewhere, I can't
05:17remember where, but it said Bangkok is the hottest city in the world, which kind of blew
05:22my mind because I grew up in Australia and Melbourne and Perth, very, very hot cities
05:28in the summer.
05:29Like we get into like mid to high 40s, which I don't think it gets here.
05:33But because of the humidity and because it's just all year round hot, Bangkok is considered
05:39the hottest city in the world, which is crazy.
05:42And today it definitely feels like it.
05:44I'm like dripping sweat just from walking from the entrance to here.
05:48So if you're planning on coming to Lumpini Park, I definitely suggest coming like probably
05:53early morning would be your best bet.
05:56Even late afternoon, it's open from like 6am or 5am till I think 10 o'clock at night.
06:03And it is extremely safe.
06:04It's not like Central Park in New York, you do not have to worry about anything here.
06:08There's actually like cameras and lights everywhere.
06:11So I wouldn't worry about walking around here even after dark, even on your own.
06:17So I'm going to take you for a little bit of a walk around and there's a big man, well
06:22that's actually a couple of man-made lakes and there's signs everywhere to look out for
06:27monitor lizards, which I did know existed in Thailand.
06:31In fact, we saw one in Hua Hin, but I didn't realize that they were so dangerous.
06:36There's signs everywhere saying that they are extremely dangerous and to stay clear.
06:39So obviously the man-made lakes that they've made have become infested with monitor lizards,
06:45which is crazy because there's these like little foot powered boats that everybody's
06:50paddling around on in the lake.
06:53So I don't know if you capsize one of them, you might be in a bit of trouble.
06:56These monitor lizards get to like a couple of meters big and they do look kind of creepy.
07:00I'll see, I'll see if we can find one, but I'm going to take you guys for a walk around
07:05and see what you think because this is one of the places when we spent two months here
07:11in Bangkok that we just talked about visiting all the time and never seemed to make time
07:16to do it.
07:17So I thought I might as well make time to do it now and we'll see how it looks.
07:21know this about what it looks like.
08:01Gotta be completely honest, like while it is nice and it's a really nice escape from
08:07the hustle and bustle of Bangkok, I thought it might be a little bit more well kept.
08:11Like there's bench seats sort of scattered around everywhere and a lot of them are broken
08:17and they just don't look like they've been looked after at all.
08:20The grass is okay, it's pretty good, it's probably not too easy to maintain in this
08:26hot dry climate right now and I imagine even summer when it's raining it probably
08:32just grows like crazy but doesn't seem to be any staff here or maintenance people,
08:38maybe they come at night when it's not so hot which would make sense, I wouldn't
08:43want to work in this heat. But yeah honestly it's not, it's not bad, it's quite
08:48nice but I did kind of expect it to be a little bit nicer.
09:03Well those dudes over there playing like volleyball, I don't know how they do it in this heat, honestly.
09:09I'm sweating tits off in this heat. And they're out there playing volleyball, that's hectic.
09:18So there's a basketball court there, as I said a volleyball court behind me. There's an indoor gym just here,
09:27which looks pretty good actually, that's where I'd be going. And apparently there's a library here,
09:33which was the first ever library in Thailand as well, so there's a bit of history here.
09:41A couple nice tennis courts over here, again I don't know how they do it in the heat.
09:48But you must get acclimatised to it because it doesn't seem to bother them too much.
10:08So this looks like an old music hall but it's been abandoned it looks like. Again it just
10:17doesn't look like it's really been that well maintained. Some old food stores here but
10:25nothing looks open, in fact they look abandoned. Or maybe they're just shut. Strange.
10:44Yeah this looks abandoned to me. I wonder if this was once a really busy area.
11:04You know what, I could be wrong maybe, maybe at night time these places open up but,
11:12because like there is fridges and everything here.
11:22I don't know, hard to figure this one out. Haven't been able to spot any monitor lizards,
11:28unfortunately. I was kind of hoping to find one. Although I wouldn't want to get too close.
11:34I found one that's open. I'm gonna get a cold drink.
11:39Right I did it, I found a cold drink here. I'm gonna head off now though and get out of
11:43this heat
11:44because it's killing me. And I'm gonna head over to the Mahanakon Skywalk, which is the highest
11:51observation deck in Bangkok. It's 300 meters above the ground and it has like a glass bottom floor.
11:58So you actually walk out onto the glass floor, which kind of seems to be creepy. But we'll go check
12:03that out and see how that is because that's something I've been wanting to do for a while
12:06and something Mandy definitely didn't want to do with me. She's terrified of heights.
12:10I recently went skydiving for the first time last year. Absolutely shat myself, not gonna lie.
12:16But I don't think this is going to be as scary. However, I could be surprised. I don't know. We'll
12:22see how we go.
12:25Okay, I got a tuk-tuk to the skywalk tower.
12:32Let's go man. It's too hot, huh?
12:37It's still probably a little early to go there because of the heat, but I may be able to
12:44grab a drink somewhere cold before I head up there. We'll see.
13:22I have no idea where we're going down some perk alley way.
13:27You know it's a shortcut.
13:39All right, we're here. This is it.
13:43Thanks bro.
13:46After a massage.
13:53After a massage.
14:11Okay, we made it.
14:13I actually was very close to leaving my phone in the tuk-tuk. We pulled up to a
14:21skywalk building here and I had my phone sitting on the seat and luckily there was a group of people
14:27when I got out and paid. As he drove off, they saw my phone sitting on the seat somehow and
14:32yelled out
14:33and like told me and I had to whistle out to the tuk-tuk driver to stop this close to
14:38losing my phone.
14:39So thank you to those people, whoever you are.
14:42If you ever see this, you probably won't.
14:45I just had a coffee down here. There's a really big food court down at the bottom of the building
14:51and it's got pizza and cafes and sushi, heaps of stuff to eat.
14:58So I just had a little bit of a break from the heat and a coffee and now I'm going
15:03to head into
15:04the skydeck and it looks f***ing high, like ridiculously high. Let's see how we go here.
15:16So
15:29Let's go.
15:56Wow, my ears are actually locked.
15:58We came up so fast.
15:59It took about 15 seconds to get 300 and something meters.
16:05Look how high we are.
16:45Look how high we are.
16:48Look how high we are.
17:22Okay, we're just heading up to the skywalk now.
17:28I didn't realize it was so far.
17:30I would have got the elevator.
17:34It's like 50 steps.
17:37I'm going to get the elevator.
17:37Let's go.
17:37Let's go.
17:49Let's go.
17:58Let's go.
18:22I'm going to go walk on this deck, man it's f***ing crowded here, there's so many people
18:29It's pretty cool though
18:44Okay, I'm heading down now, I didn't stay too long, mostly because there was nowhere to sit, there's so many
18:50people there
18:51I couldn't actually walk onto the glass because you weren't allowed to bring a camera or a phone and I
18:57have two cameras and a phone
18:59And you don't have to bring a bag either so I had nowhere to leave it
19:04So yeah, not really much to do up there
19:08I like the idea of it, I think it would be cool, there's a DJ and like a bar and
19:13some cool places to sit to watch the sunset
19:15But just a few too many people
19:24I'm trying to figure out where the exit is and I feel like I'm at the airport honestly
19:31All of a sudden there's perfume and alcohol and luggage and watches and handbags
19:37I don't know what's going on
19:46What the f*** do I get out of here?
20:02Okay, I finally made it out of that building, my camera actually died as I was on the way out
20:08It's kind of weird though, when you come down you land on like the third or fourth floor
20:13And then you got to get escalators down and you're almost walking through what feels like
20:19An airport duty-free shop or something
20:21There was like booze and tobacco and perfume, handbags, luggage, watches, all the stuff you see like for sale at
20:31the airport
20:32Which I'm not gonna lie, like it's a pretty good business plan because there's probably a lot of people that
20:37go there
20:38On holidays and end up buying some stuff on their way out
20:41All in all, I would say I really like the concept of the experience
20:46Like the rooftop itself and the view is like amazing
20:50You can't get a view like that anywhere else in Bangkok
20:54360 degree views of the city and you're up 300 and something metres, like it's insane
20:59The only issue was that it was very crowded and there was a bar there with a DJ which was
21:06really cool
21:07But there was probably about 40 seats available
21:10And I reckon there had to be 200 to 250 people up there
21:15So getting a seat was damn near impossible
21:17It probably would have been more enjoyable if I was there with Mandy
21:21Because I couldn't actually walk on the glass deck
21:24Because you weren't allowed to take a camera or a phone onto the deck
21:28And I had two cameras and a phone and you're not allowed to bring a bag up there either
21:32And there was like a spot you could leave your stuff
21:35But it was like fully out in the open and there's so many people
21:37It was so crowded, there was no way of me keeping an eye on my things
21:41And I kind of just wasn't willing to risk losing everything
21:44So I didn't get to walk on the actual glass deck
21:47If Mandy was there, it probably would have been better
21:50Because she could have held the camera and everything for me
21:53And we could have taken turns walking on that glass deck
21:57And it probably would have been more fun
21:59Honestly, it probably would have been more fun anyway with her
22:01Because we probably would have stayed for a drink and watched the sunset
22:07But as I said, there was nowhere really to sit
22:11And me being on my own, like if I had gone to get a drink
22:15And then there's nowhere to sit, what am I going to do?
22:17I'm going to stand around on my own
22:19Just watching the sunset would have been kind of weird
22:22But overall, I'd say it's a pretty good experience
22:25I would recommend going and checking it out
22:27It's not too expensive
22:28Like you can get a ticket up there for like 30 bucks
22:31I paid about $40, that's Aussie
22:36And I got free dinner afterwards at the food court across the hall
22:40Which actually, like I got 200 baht worth of like food voucher
22:46And it actually got me a really good dinner
22:48I was really happy with it
22:49So all in all, like I'd say it's a pretty good experience
22:53Maybe it's best to go early in the morning or late afternoon
22:58And go with somebody else
23:00Like if you're going on your own
23:02Definitely makes it a little bit more difficult
23:04And not as enjoyable
23:05But I'll leave the link for it down below in the description
23:09If you guys want to go and check it out for yourself
23:11But for right now, I am absolutely buggered
23:14I caught the bus up here this morning
23:16And walked around Bangkok all day in the heat, sweating
23:21I'm just going to go order something for dinner
23:24And go to bed
23:25I'm staying at this really cool Heritage Hotel
23:29It's called the Ban Tuk Din
23:31Which translates actually to gunpowder factory
23:35It used to be an old gunpowder factory
23:37This place is 125 years old
23:39And its first impressions, it's a really, really cool hotel
23:43It's very old, but it's really nice
23:45It's been really nicely renovated
23:47So in the next video
23:49I'll give you guys a full tour of the hotel
23:51Because there's like a jazz bar and a coffee shop
23:53Downstairs as well connected to it
23:55I think I can actually hear the music now
23:57So stay tuned for that video
23:59Which will be coming up next
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