A Random Thailand Video Discussing a Bunch of Things

A somewhat random video filmed on the beautiful island of Ko Phayam, Thailand in the Andaman Sea, discussing a variety of different topics while exploring the island.
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"Alike" by Jones Meadow
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"Watch It Glow" by Silent Partner
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Gabriel is a world traveler and travel writer who has been adventuring around the world since his first trip to Europe in the summer of 1990 when he was 18 years old. He is author of "Gabe's Guide to Budget Travel", "Following My Thumb" and several other books available on Amazon.com and elsewhere.
Thanks a lot for watching and safe journeys!

[@TravelbyDartTV]

I mean, we can all agree that we enjoyed the scenery and how Gabe explains things!

[@TwoMadExplorers]

Our favourite travel channel right here. Real and down to earth, no ego ☀️

[@adkh5826]

Fun Fact: Gabriel is actually the main character from Shantaram

[@kentbrosh8970]

Books and beach. Great combination!👏

[@ausjen]

That tree house bar is the most wonderous building ive ever seen, love these vlogs, love your style and content, addicted

[@pikahippi]

Fun fact: its completely made out of wreckage that sea has brought to beach after tsunami over the years.

[@TheRoyalFlush]

Man, I love you Gabriel. You videos are a nurturing respite from our crazy chaotic world. You convey the beauty in exotic places that I can't yet experience - giving me a taste of the beauty of the world, even when things may seem grim. Thank you and happy new year!

[@starboy1887]

Thanks Gabriel, you are a great story teller ! Enjoyed this vid , yes endless golden beaches is south east Asia . Beautiful Islands and I hope they recover fully after covid. 😊😊😊😊

[@stellamarina4123]

It is always interesting to find new unknown books on the give and take book shelves at hostels and guesthouses.

[@effie-Toronto]

Enjoyed this video very much Gabe thank you for all the stories

[@president_kanye9165]

Shantaram.....Best Book in the world.

[@carlosvictor8679]

crabs filter the sand to get nutrients and the end product are those little sand balls,lol.

[@ValentinaMitchell1]

Wow! I watched every second, loved hearing about the books, always great to have a good read, the squishy spider trigger, hippie bar, the arch, and the found new areas! Really great exploration! The Hippie Bar looked so cool!

[@Lorraine-p4r]

The spider was not as big as Gabriels hand. But its ok. I stood on a huge moth this morning; it had to go to.

[@junkmannythewitch7295]

100 Submarines from the German fleet escaped capture at the end of the war. 2 were recovered, one in Brazil where it ran aground due to mechanical problems, crew was arrested and interviewed. The other recovered near Base 211 in Antarctica, empty. "Touching the void" best survival mountain adventure ever. Good report!

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

I agree, Touching the Void is a good one.

[@azdbuk]

That is the coolest bar I have ever seen. I want to just hang out there like a beach dog.

[@sumostorms]

I watched shantaram on apple tv (12 episodes). Very cool series. Now you mentioned i found out the tv series is actually based on that book. I’ll grab a copy to read it. Thanks for mentioning 👍🍺

[@DaniElle25g]

Loved the new side as a book reviewer! I ordered the Secret Hunters... I'll let you know if I like it. Sounds super intriguing! I've always loved historical fiction. Evelyn Anthony used to be my favourite author. Happy New Year Gabriel! Best wishes for a wonderful 2024:)

[@stephenworthington-white8294]

Pretty sure I would be practically living at that hippy bar If I went to Ko Phayam!! Really cool spot to chill in the hot afternoons. Happy Travels

[@DaltonMirklestein]

Would you chill with a ladyboy Steve?

[@ianwinks2802]

Loved Shantaram Gabriel. Was one of the contributing factors that made me want to visit India. Did partake in quite a few beers at Leopolds in Mumbai. Just fell in love with the place and the people . Hopefully I can get there again one day soon . Thanks for letting us all travel vicariously with you. Happy travels. 🇳🇿

[@2wheels42]

Oh man Ko Phayam and the hippy bar looks amazing! Thanks Gabriel, your travel vids are the best 🙏

[@expattraveler2654]

Gabe, I haven’t read a book in years and I started reading Shantaram because of your recommendation. I can’t get enough of it thanks for helping find my love of reading again!

[@ageoflove1980]

If you dont have time for reading I can totally recommend audiobooks. First of all, its great when you are really tired and just want to lay down with the lights out and just drift away. Also its great for being able to listen to during walks or other journeys where its just a hassle to hold a book and focus on reading. Now you obviously dont want anything heavy you really have to pay attention to. Right now im reading/listening the sci-fi series The Expanse where the TV show is based off. Really perfect for those situations and a nice break when you are bored with music.

[@ValentinaMitchell1]

33:01 Really cool capture on film! Gabe running into the water with the camera put in a cool spot!

[@Jack-2day]

Ok regarding the Hippie Bar, if you find yourself on the island check it out in the evening! Lighting, live music, candles & very chill vibes throughout the labyrinth of this bar. Been traveling for over 40 years & this is in the top 3. Cheers 🍻🥂🍸

[@mr.sts.p]

I followed you fore some years now Gabriel love your way doing videos 😊 👍 Have a great 2024 🤝🇸🇪

[@SimvitTravels]

"It looks motorbikable." I dig it lol

[@wynomastockenstroom4052]

Thanks for the chat re the various books... Shantaram slipped through my hands, but will try to find the others.

[@dailyrider6330]

Happy new year Gabriel! Safe travels!

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Thanks, have a great 2024. ✌️

[@stephenworthington-white8294]

Shantaram is a great read!! It was everywhere the last time I was in India in 2008. Have not seen the movie yet though I want to. Coelho is a good writer as well imho. Happy Travels

[@annieis300]

Love the Hippy Bar... so cool!!! ☮

[@pamelamann9293]

Love the continuation of the big spiders story.

[@elineeugenie5224]

That hippie bar is just beautiful! I'm all for the Pirates aesthetic Thanks for sharing Gabriel!

[@danlee3757]

Thanks for taking us to the "Hippie Bar", I can see you spending more time there, I have not heard the term Motorbikeable. You may have discovered a new word. Enjoyed your "Book Storys" Where to next?????

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

It may be motorbikable, but it could test your motorbikability. I'm headed back to the US soon, possibly with a short stop or two along the way.

[@danlee3757]

be sure to check US weather forecast in the area you plan to visit, US is having a lot of bad weather.@@GabrielTravelerVideos

[@rebekahsalt26]

I’ll try the Secret Hunters. Sounds fascinating thank you. I remember when I was in Thailand sleeping on the floors of shack type houses and I really wonder what insects visited me at night 😂 I met a lady who said she woke up with a colony of ants traversing her face as they made their way across her bungalow 😂

[@curious1264]

The beach house is amazing

[@mariannemaag7692]

wow, this bar made me shiveŕ.... with my swiss mind of securit min consteuctions, lol... never would have put one foot on the first floor...lol. you really are brave! laughed so much about myself, thank you for this wonderfull video❤

[@bassamtravel]

Wow that's a Very Nice Beach ⛱️👍

[@mirzagoralija4492]

Great video again ! 😊😊😊❤🇧🇦🇧🇦🇧🇦

[@mussen1876]

Thanks Gabriel, would have loved to see the village at the end.

[@davidgower2848]

I've got Shantaram but still haven't got around to reading it 😂 My favourite book when I travelled was A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. A classic.

[@leogresen2793]

That village you came across was one of the last mokan (sea Gypsie village) there’s a pretty near documentary about there lifestyle on Slice. If you take another road to the eagle bar on the island you find a road lower down and it goes all the way to the mokan village. They speak there own language and very little Thai and Burmese.

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Wow, that is wild, thanks for the info.

[@leogresen2793]

@@GabrielTravelerVideos or if you go the same way you went in the video they’ll charge you about 10 baht im pretty sure to cross back and forth on the pulley system.

[@leogresen2793]

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[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

A rickety pulley system across a broken bridge over a mud pit, what could go wrong?

[@leogresen2793]

@@GabrielTravelerVideos you got it😎

[@bassamtravel]

Nice and healthy food

[@raychul33]

I want to visit there just to visit that insane hippy bar wow

[@Lorraine-p4r]

Gabriel is a Archangel. Nice name.

[@DaltonMirklestein]

*an

[@tike5449]

If you look at the satellite view, you can see that the roads on Ko Chang connect both coasts and go along the west coast to connect several bungalow resorts

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Yep, I figured that out once I arrived.

[@jasonwebb41]

Ranulph Fiennes is actually the third cousin of the actor Ralph Fiennes

[@NorbuWangmo-h6z]

Ahhh I need a holiday 😅

[@andrewmarinkovich8657]

Gabe, thanks for the awesome video and for getting a shot of your giant spider encounter! I'm one of those who had said you should have filmed one of your spider encounters in India. Very interesting to see. Like you, I don't hate spiders and I no longer kill them as I've come to appreciate them. But if I came across a giant spider in my living area I would probably have no choice but to dispose of it. They are just too freaky to have that close by.

[@ivysprieto6058]

Gorgeous 🏝 Island, The hippie bar was beautifully done ✔️ 👏 love it , and those rooms need to be fumigated so people can stay in peace 😏

[@roygoad2870]

As you say most spiders are harmless, in fact they are important part of the ecosystem, without them there would be many other dangerous bugs, even in your room. I don’t mind spiders myself, but I certainly don’t want a snake in my room, which happened to me once in the Philippines. It was about 3 foot long and its body was the size of a pen. I immediately went to reception and the guy knew how to deal with it thank goodness 😅

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

The spiders can party all they want outside my room, there's lots of free space out there. A snake would be even freakier. The geckos on the other hand are welcome to come on in. There were some in my bungalow and I was happy to see them.

[@ivysprieto6058]

Not inside a hotel, i will never be able to enjoy my stay in a room with spiders , that's crazy 😳

[@jaymeez]

Happy 2024 My Friend. Shantaram is actually available here on KZbin as a audiobook! I’m going to listen to it when time permits. Also that Hippy Bar looks so cool. Would love to roll one up there listen to some reggae with some good food & drinks 👍🏽

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Right on, Happy New Year, have a great 2024. ✌️

[@bassamtravel]

Yes covid messed up so many things and people😮

[@janeldunn65]

Hey Gabriel… not to put a downer on things … I can only use audio books these days reading is a struggle I miss getting lost in a book in a cosy nook oops 😂sorry but if your books were on audible or any other audio I would really love that .

[@carolinacadabra8278]

$5 was a more significant chunk of change 16 years ago, though. Thai prices are up 21% over the last 10 years.

[@onelove8062]

I really hope they dont ruin asia before I get back. Even though Mexico is like a third of USA unlimited printed inflation covid biggest recession since the depression highway robbery and its still too much. A huge plate of food, 3x a day, a hotel and daily hash in India, 10$ max total

[@michaeldyas769]

That bar....wow

[@CripplingDuality]

Nice sinister gamelan music when you found that derelict resort, could inspire a travel themed horror story or two hehe

[@steelisreal4313]

I highly recommend Alaska by James A.Michener or Centennial. My problem with a good book is i cannot put it down and will read for hours.

[@deborahs.9389]

That meme the one with the money chains$ ! The meme the fast high roller? Ok I chatted!🐎🐎

[@terriealexander2344]

in usa lots of activity in the waters in some area's and news

[@terriealexander2344]

poison insects are serious business. I have been bitten by one . almost five years later and still treating it. some articles think most spiders have poison in their bite

[@mylahbarreto5265]

Beautiful spot and beach! I hope tourism will come back soon to the region!

[@DaltonMirklestein]

Tourists destroy nature. Stay home

[@M-gq1bq]

Have you ever read "The Far Arena" by Richard Ben Sapir (published in the 1970s)? A very light read, but also very entertaining. A gladiator gets frozen in the polar ice and is reanimated centuries later. I still wonder why this hasn't been adapted for film.

[@terrenceshannon6229]

I’m with you Gabriel , sorry spider, you unfortunately ended up in my space and I just can’t share it with you!😅

[@dragonfly9209]

Here is a fact that many people don't know. One of the most poisonous spiders of all---is the common "daddy long legs". This amazes people who have handled them, and who have never gotten bitten. The reason is--their fangs are too small to penetrate human skin. (Thankfully!)

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

That's actually an urban legend: entomology.ucr.edu/news/2022/01/14/are-daddy-longlegs-really-most-venomous-spiders-world

[@dragonfly9209]

@@GabrielTravelerVideos Wow! Good to know!

[@travismillhouse8936]

Hey y’all Gabe is living the dream of his past. Tonight he dances all night and sleeps on the beach

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Well I walked on the beach and slept all night, so that's close.

[@rogerolsson6679]

👍

[@outcast-man]

Gabriel ,,Sir Ranulph Finennes was in the SAS Special Forces ,, he later on had a quadruple bypass , then ran 7 marathons in 7 days then climbed Everest and went to the north pole unassisted fell in the ice water got frost bite on his hand and cut off his own fingers ,,, what a guy

[@tombuddy100]

That island seems to have a river, estuary being where that bridge is at the end of the video.

[@licuta7376]

❤👍❤️

[@pasqualeabarno]

👍👍👍

[@katleenmstut4622]

I am with you Gabriel regarding spiders 😮 Their place is outside I reckon😂

[@johndoutty9317]

Shantaram has been adapted as a series on Apple TV. I haven't seen it. Often the books are better than screen adoptions i.m.o.

[@makeamericagreenagain8511]

Those mis-aimed shorts had an impact @25:30 and I've gotta suggest 'ghost spiders'. Or, maybe shape shifting empath arachnids. 🌲😎🌲 Then to hear you've got a real deadly journal too, and which now has the ghost of yet another spider attached... & which will now also be accompanying your ongoing journaling. Or, at least could be the cover story. Be unafraid. We've got to assume life has offered itself up as a sacrifice to honor the depth of ALL storytelling. Spider decals for merch maybe? There's even an Etsy store which has custom made temporary tatoos for those afraid of commitment to Arachnids. Making them part of your brand might be a jump though. Ha ha. The driftwood magically re-constructs itself @28:30 it seems & with some brilliant help - the former vessels and flotsam - saved from the cooking fires - can shade us too - until we can emerge into the light and be known. I love that place. There's a really surprising upstairs that's not OSHA approved. Speeding down the path @41:45 I was wondering where are the dairy goats? Fixing the masonry exterior - right there - for the caretakers might get pretty cheesy. Much yogurt could happen there grasshopper. That substantial fence could hold goats between forage walks. I hadn't expected to be taken on a journey towards Guruji Shri Prabir Priyaranjan Bhattacharjee. As Gregory David Roberts focuses on his six-year training with his spiritual mentor in writing the Spiritual Path - I'm seeing that there's a Scribd pdf version so I don’t even have to go out on a rainy night now. Gabe, is there a 12 part Australian TV series of Shantaram? 🦚

[@unclemayhem6696]

I had a neighbor who spent time in India and was bitten by one of those giant type spiders. He said that they caused skin eruptions about the size of US fifty-cent pieces and oozed matter that resembled cottage cheese.😮

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Well that sounds fun, bummer.

[@neilwoodward7336]

​@@GabrielTravelerVideos🤢

[@peregrino9154]

Gabe is obviously a seeker but not a full seeker as he rejects ideas that contradict his preconceived notions. Hopefully, one day, he will wake up fully.

[@MtBakerlife]

Hmmm I don’t see that, but you’re probably an expert.

[@pleasantjourneys]

🎉❤ji

[@jillytravels9317]

Yin yang, island "beasts & beauty"......

[@janeldunn65]

Another fun fact … it has been said that the average person swallows many house spiders whilst sleeping 💤 fun fact or monstrous myth ? You decide 😂

[@gailcollins9331]

Ok Gabriel, I don't like spiders either but it has to be expected that you are going to meet large ones in the tropical places you travel to. But neither you or anyone else has the right to kill insects or animals "we don't like the look of"!!!! Safe and "kill free" travels, Gail Czech Republic.

[@tony.travels]

Are you filming on a Go Pro?

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

DJI Osmo Action 1. But it's time to upgrade to the 4 as soon as I see it.

[@tony.travels]

Interesting camera. I bet it's much better in low light. THe GoPro is just awful indoors and evenings.

[@johnbarbey8755]

Where'd you go I haven't seen no videos for a long time

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Super slow wifi where I was the past couple days, couldn't get them uploaded. Back in a faster wifi zone now.

[@jfp6400]

G has the life

[@TurnipGreen]

Dude! 😳 I haaate spiders

[@sushilrai9144]

*Anybody home.?? Looks like no one’s in the comment section.

[@tjegan1417]

fear of spiders for me too....agoraphobia

[@JC-lu4se]

That’s not the right phobia. Try arachnophobia.

[@M-gq1bq]

You could also check out entomophobia.

[@travel_and_explore_with_BIP]

Are there no snakes 🐍 out there??

[@marafarnham595]

Gabriel, time for a haircut 😅

[@tombuddy100]

You may meet up with Alina Mcleod who is on Koh Samui.

[@DaltonMirklestein]

She should be in Russia defending her people

[@tombuddy100]

@@DaltonMirklestein She is Canadian.

[@DaltonMirklestein]

@@tombuddy100 she's a Russian

[@tombuddy100]

@@DaltonMirklestein Whatever. She wasn't born there, and Russia has not been not attacked.

[@DaltonMirklestein]

@@tombuddy100 actually I could care less about her. I watched two of her videos, it was enough for me.

[@dilrukshikgds662]

❤👌👍🇱🇰

[@junefirst500]

The Best Life is in Sunny Countries! No Matter You are Poor, Joy in You! 2nd, Happiness Come From Jesus Teachings. Love humans Dailey!

[@Iloveallanimals312]

I catch spiders in a cup and take them outside...😢 I don't enjoy hearing about your murder adventures with insects..but love your videos.

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

I do that sometimes. The problem is when they're almost the size of your hand and they move fast. I'm not going to take a chance at trying to catch them, because they will probably get away. But I don't want to live with them in my room. So the realistic options are limited. Big difference between dealing with a spider the size of a quarter versus one that's five or six inches across.

[@Iloveallanimals312]

@GabrielTravelerVideos Ty for your explanation, spiders the size of your hand would be quite intimidating. I've never seen one that size, so I don't know what I'd do in that situation..safe travels back to the US. Thx again for 8 months of entertainment.

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Right on, glad you enjoyed.

[@thortessem271]

Hi from Arizona 6 AM 31 degrees

[@avsinghkahlon9999]

Good video but please try to make videos a little short. Too long videos tend to become boring

[@JohnSmith-bt2pv]

So wots New?

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

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[@LAbee333]

Was stunned to hear you mention Shantaram -1 of our very favorite books📚! Have been begging my sweetheart of 23 years to read it but he insists he will when he gets out to sea on his boat-he has a beautiful handmade Australian boat only 12 in the world but it came with no instructions and he's not rich and he has to figure everything out himself but he wants to set sail soon!⛵ Destination Greece and Israel 🇮🇱💙🇬🇷