Exploring Three of Thailand's Abandoned Beach Towns

[@PaulWalliswriter]

I see you now have 7.13k subs ...... the decimal point needs to move a couple of rows to the right! Most underrated channel that is about to be revealed to the world!

[@brucewayne2773]

💓🙏👍

[@JBWanders73]

I appreciate that mate, it's all a bit of a slow burn at the moment...but we'll get there one day...... possibly....... maybe haha 😎 🙏

[@clivebaxter6354]

He will be begging for donations next like the rest of them

[@JBWanders73]

Have a lovely day Clive. Kisses x

[@brucewayne2773]

@@clivebaxter6354 lots of hugs and love to Clive

[@rgvitch]

Great video Jimbo Love the phrase “Salt Bay 420 baby” 😂

[@johnlowell5905]

97 was a great year! Went by plane everywhere, instead of my usual orange or blue bus.

[@jasonbouchard9233]

Loved your agricultural find....& the mix of wax poetic and reggae at the end was awesome

[@JBWanders73]

Thanks mate, much appreciated 🙏

[@PaulWalliswriter]

What a find! Want to see the interview!

[@JBWanders73]

Thanks mate - wait until you see inside the building!

[@schiz0phren1c]

You just got another sub mate, love the channel and vibe!, excellent Dub soundtrack and you remind me of when I lived in Bkk in 2004-06 and was "urban exploring" before I even knew it had a name, a mate of mine(an ex district 8 cop) would take me to a lot of the buildings that fell victim to '97 and other downturns. I had to fire one up when you spoke of Saltbay(420!) it was 4:40pm, but still a good idea!

[@JBWanders73]

Thanks mate, really appreciate that. Some old guy just said it was a terrible soundtrack but he likes to troll haha. Yeah, there's a lot of urban exploring still to be done. I went to an old, old cinema recently, FULL of street dogs. It's been boarded up now mate...... it's always a good time to blaze 🙏✌

[@schiz0phren1c]

@@JBWanders73 Yep yep JB!, I won't say exactly where it was, but that mate of mine brought me to an old skyscraper which has a large community, a lot of whom work in jobs where they deal with farangs and others who make a ridiculous amount of money in comparison and remain SO nice and SO positive and SO welcoming!, they were and are fantastic people.

[@DadOnHisOwn]

Interesting video - I like your exploring style of videos - please add google map locations of the places you visit to your videos so people can find them easily

[@JBWanders73]

Thanks, much appreciated. You have the names... type them into Google Map 🙏✌

[@RichardJackRobertson]

Genius use of building - makes me wonder if the other "birds nest" places really are something else.

[@JBWanders73]

I will investigate mate 😂

[@markp5056]

ha ha, nice one Jimmy. I'm intrigued now lol

[@JBWanders73]

Wait until you see the next one mate

[@gavreynolds2689]

As a fellow dabbler in the "green arts" I'm really looking forward to the future video on this Joint. 😁😁

[@JBWanders73]

Cheers mate. Coming soon... you'll be blown away Gav 🙏

[@dmbrod]

We also had the hard up Farang moving to Puek Tian. You used to be able to rent a dilapidated town house for a 1000 Baht per month some twenty years ago.Failing in Cha-am/Hua-hin try Puek Tian!

[@JBWanders73]

You'd have to be a loon to live there haha

[@cinderella1295]

That`s absolutely terrible ! The empty ghettos are standing on wasted land - such a pitty ! Wow JB Jim, you show a sad truth. could be a nice place by the beach 💙

[@JBWanders73]

Yeah, I think it's a real shame, especially given the location. I think the investors are returning though Cindy 🙏✌

[@timwalker2458]

The Carlton hotel Sukhumvit soi 29 was as abandoned building 5 years ago. Now it looks great, mind you at 10 or 11 grand a night it should do. When you said your Mrs keep plastic bags in the car, I thought it would be to stick over your head if you started singing again.

[@JBWanders73]

She has gaffa tape and a bat if I try and sing in the car mate😂

[@brucewayne2773]

Like Paul, I too want to see a follow up with the man the myth who owns and operates inside that Salt Bay 420 👍

[@JBWanders73]

Thanks Bruce. Full tour first and then a chat with the cultivator. The highly educated money man (a Thai with impeccable English) may do one in the future mate. 🙏✌

[@brucewayne2773]

@@JBWanders73 3 floors of lab drawn employees , 🤔 interesting

[@TwinJalanugraha]

Please add information about the location (Google map) of where you visited.

[@allanstirling539]

I think the whale watching might take off in the area

[@JBWanders73]

It's been going on for a couple of decades here at least mate. The trips started out of BangTaboon Bay (you can also do nighttime firefly trips), and there are a few local operators. It seems that people go on them on day trips amd then go back home. Someone has now started offering the trips out of Samut Prakarn and advertising heavily.... I hope this doesn't destroy the business in Phetburi.

[@davidwilliams7552]

Where is this?

[@JBWanders73]

Phetchaburi Province; the coastline: Hat Chao Samran, Puk Tien etc

[@dmbrod]

Puek Tian in the 90s was regarded as the poor mans Cha-am by the Thais.

[@JBWanders73]

"The Thais"..... rather vague. There are zero similarities to Cha Am or Hua Hin. To Phetchaburians, it's just Puk Tien, the place that mad dude built OVER the beach

[@dmbrod]

He wasn't mad but a very senior local policeman/businessman.His daughter is still influential in the province today..

[@dmbrod]

Pre 97 Hua-hin wasn't the international resort we associate it with today.Cha-am and Hua-hin were more on a equal footing in terms of investment and tourist flows.When the old King relocated full time to Klai Kangwon Palace in 1999 was when things changed.

[@JBWanders73]

@@dmbrod Do you think she will redevelop?

[@JBWanders73]

Haha aren't they all?

[@tombloom99]

I didn't see any trash.

[@JBWanders73]

Yes, you're right, actually. This area has never had much rubbish. All the places I showed have roads and are thus still covered by Phetburi local street cleaning etc.

[@specialisedheavy9932]

ok i will join you 🚬

[@itsuptoyou3526]

haha trust you to sniff that out

[@JBWanders73]

It was like the Bisto kids mate 😂

[@matthewdyer4752]

Bang Sen. Thailand's worst beach.

[@JBWanders73]

And? This is not Bang Saen; it's the opposite coast completely - nowhere near mate 😂. I agree that Bang Saen is a nightmare at the weekend and I refused to go for over 20 years, but it's beautiful midweek without the crowds...

[@matthewdyer4752]

@JBWanders73 you mentioned it briefly in the vid.

[@JBWanders73]

I probably did. I waffle a lot mate. What's your favourite beach?

[@matthewdyer4752]

@JBWanders73 mianland....not found one i would recommend. Sattahip has some good ones. Koh Larn is underrated. Hua Hin and Cha am are very average.

[@matthewdyer4752]

@@JBWanders73 oh and you are onto a winner as soon as you stop drinking alcahol. Well done

[@clivebaxter6354]

It was over 90 baht to a pound in Dec 1997! Dreadful soundtrack

[@JBWanders73]

Ah, the ever lovely Clive and his lovely positive comments. Was the soundtrack a bit "ethnic" for you Clive?

[@clivebaxter6354]

@@JBWanders73 Vlogging is not really your thing is it, no the soundtrack is just bad.

[@JBWanders73]

Bless your nasty, negative soul. Have a wonderful day little man x

[@brucewayne2773]

@@JBWanders73 ❤️