Bangkok Nightlife and Thailand in the 80's: A Life Changing Experience!

I first visited Thailand in the 80’s (1987). It was a life changing experience at a crazy time. I show you my Bangkok nightlife pictures from Patpong Road and Soi Cowboy. The beauty and friendliness of the Thai girls amazed us and making friends with bar girls was an enlightening experience for us.
I also show my pictures from Koh Samui when it really was a tropical paradise and you could get a beachside bungalow for not much more than a Dollar a night. I travelled with 2 of my friends and we were young, dumb and full of fun. I celebrate my birthday in style on Patpong Road Bangkok. You will also experience the Bangkok nightlife on my crazy first ever night out on Soi Cowboy.
Experience Thailand in the 80’s with me as I show old pictures that offer a valuable insight into Thailand before tourism changed it forever.
This is the second of several videos using my many pictures taken between 1987 and 1992. I narrate the pictures to describe what it was like, how it affected us and how Thailand has changed.
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[@sebastianniqvist3144]

13:53 days of youth… I also have my own memories and wouldn’t I like to go back in time.

[@karlsthailand]

Cheers. Happy that the video may have jogged some memories of your own.

[@barryseal-7710]

I could EASILY spend all weekend watching the entirety of this channel, from start to finish, so many parables with my own experiences , what a magic ✨ time to have discovered paradise ..... 🙏🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@karlsthailand]

So happy it has brought some of it back for you and it’s good to know others who experienced it feel the same way. Thanks

[@sebastianniqvist3144]

Your series of videos of 1987 are great. Imagine how it was for the first backpackers in the mid 60’s… about 20 years earlier than the time you went. I can only live in Asia.

[@karlsthailand]

Yes, I often think about that, even in the 80’s people thought it was a strange and distant destination, it must have been much more so back then. Cheers

[@barryseal-7710]

I know that feeling of being totally pissed off at the thought of going home . when you've got to go to the air port, I could see it on Adams face on one of the last pics.......👌🏻🙌🏻

[@karlsthailand]

You got it lol. For me the biggest shock was waking up the first morning after I got back to the UK thinking I was still in Thailand and the realising I was in fact back home! Cheers

[@barryseal-7710]

@@karlsthailand that's called a nightmare 👌🏻🤣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🙏🏻

[@t147han]

I have seen big hard men crying on there last night,and they used to play john denvers going home on a jet plane.

[@kevinfairburn]

Great trip down memory lane Karl. Thanks for sharing. I too arrived in Thailand for the first time in 1987 as a 23 yr old, but in the month of December, as I was on a round the world journey and in Italy when you and your mates arrived there in August. It was an awesome time and I remember a great sense of freedom as every day was an adventure back then. As you say, travelling was a learn as you go happening back in the 80s. Sun, sand, bikes, sweet gals and traveling around on a whim without ever over-planning. Much obliged for allowing me to re-live the experience.

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks Kevin, I hope that the pictures brought some of it back for you. The series isn’t finished yet, a few more to go

[@stdio44.32]

Great stories, I've watched enough of your "1980's Thailand reminiscing" videos to hear bits and pieces repeated in different spots. The quality of storytelling could easily be on television, very engaging. 👍

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks very much, glad you enjoyed those videos. Truth is that my pictures back then are a very limited quantity so there's bound to be a bit of repetition in there. Cheers

[@MisterMitchMM]

I'm having flashbacks of my first adventures in Thailand. Thank you Karl. All the best. Mitch 🙏

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks Mitch, glad it brings it back for you

[@kevininsiam]

what year was that, my first trip was 1988 and i still got many photos and memories that today are lost in modern times

[@onedirection3510]

“… listening to our Walkmans.” Lol what a blast from the past!

[@karlsthailand]

Yes, don’t they seem primitive now

[@longdatedoptionsleaps6112]

Out of the three NANA, Soi Cowboy, Patpong even today Soi cowboy is relax and the place to go. Tilac GOGO indeed still there (2020)

[@karlsthailand]

Soi Cowboy always seemed to have retained it's character the most over the years until about 10 years ago. I only go there rarely these days but still enjoyed my last visit there last year

[@deanjudd4185]

absolutely fascinating mate great memories amazing you still have them slides. that's proper old skool travelling love it.

[@karlsthailand]

Cheers Dean, what a trip it was and so glad I kept the slides

[@tom_123]

That navy Benneton shirt. True 80s nostalgia. Thanks for sharing, mate :)

[@karlsthailand]

It was the real thing…honest! 😂

[@DanishBacon555]

Memories to last a lifetime mate. Thanks for sharing 🙏🏻

[@karlsthailand]

My pleasure DB, glad you are enjoying the videos

[@mickeyp5122]

Hi Karl, Thanks so much for bringing your adventures from Thailand back in the 80s The photos are fantastic and a real window in to the past Thanks again Buddy

[@karlsthailand]

Cheers Mickey, thanks for leaving the positive feedback

[@mickyLat3652]

There is nothing like great memories. You must have had a blast as it shows with the glow on your face when you are telling the story. I am landing in Bangkok in 13 days for my 19th trip & I too have great memories of Thailand but my 1st trip was 2008 & I would loved to have experienced the earlier times. The whole world was much happier & carefree back then. Cheers

[@karlsthailand]

Great memories indeed and I think that applies to most of us regardless of when we first visited. You can never replicate that feeling of everything being new. Cheers

[@Darryl_Smith]

What a great trip down memory lane and it struck me whilst listening to you recounting that you never forget the names of the first people who make the trip truly unforgettable. I too have vivid memories of my first trip in 2005 but they got a bit blurred after, the names forgotten and the times just melted together - must have been the heat! What a p[lace to be and surely the best place to settle after a hard life elsewhere. Thanks for sharing.

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks Darryl , yes it even puzzles me that I remember their names. I guess it’s a sign of what an impression the first trip had on me

[@keepintouchthailand9983]

🥺💖

[@karltraveldude7817]

Great times ! Awesome days ... enjoy .

[@karlsthailand]

Yes Karl, they were great times

[@aaronprice8045]

So good, thanks for sharing mate!

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks Aaron, my pleasure

[@Mekhong3876]

As stated before, 1990 for me... only got a handful of photos so this was just great to see 👍 I stayed on Koh Samui , Chewang Beach, Coconut Grove bungalows I returned 30 years later and the same family still run the place all be it a little richer. It's now a great big resort next to the famous Ark bar. If you ever go back to Samui you'll be shocked at the place now. (ruined)

[@karlsthailand]

I’m almost scared to return Mick, too many memories that could be shattered, I thought the changes were crazy the last time I returned in 2005. I will return when I get the chance though

[@daviddenham1511]

Fantastic mate!…..I had similar experiences….but later, from 2004…..love to have met you guys!

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks Dave

[@paulfitzgerald-jones2903]

Really enjoyed watching these recollections… you can tell in how you describe the photos that much fun was had at the time …. I discovered Thailand only recently and I was still a school kid in 1987 … but this video makes me nostalgic for a time and place I never knew

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks for your thoughts Paul. That series of Thailand recollections videos have been very popular. I'm just glad I had the foresight to take those pictures. Looking back I think I was 'vlogging' it in the only practical way I could back then. Cheers

[@arthurminck5464]

❤ Your talking about Soi Nana, first time I come there was 1995...bizzy and cosy, not like now at all.. stay there most till closing time aroud 2 or 3 o clock, walking back to my hotel with some girls, Sukhumvit very quiet that time, I stay at Soi nung..😅1. In something like Golden Palace, some chinese owners hotel on the grond floor, water come up in the room during raining seison... first took a swim before I entered my room, and my lady was sleeping, that are some awesome memories I never forget...😊😊

[@karlsthailand]

It was most certainly buzzing in Nana in the 90's Arthur. Glad the video stirred some of your own memories, cheers

[@Mozzermarr10]

Fantastic that you kept all the pics. Great stories mate :).

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks. Yes, I’m so happy that I kept them all now, this was video 5 and there are at least 2 more in the series to come

[@brettt875]

great photos and memories so glad you have got them and made a vlog so good to read all the comments

[@karlsthailand]

Cheers Brett, hope you are well

[@swedish_sadhguru3854]

I love these stories! I was born in 1991 so obviously I missed the golden time and when it still was cheap. These days prices in Bangkok are quite similar to here in Sweden, obviously taxi is much cheaper, but food and coffee is almost the same. What a shame.

[@karlsthailand]

It was a great time but never worry about missing it. Just think how old you would be now if you experienced it lol. Cheers

[@swedish_sadhguru3854]

@@karlsthailand Haha yeah that is true. I wonder if in the future, Thailand will catch up to Europe even more than it has done, or if we will pull away again. For the Thai people, its obviously good when their standard of living increases. But that also means for us in Europe, that its not as easy to travel there a long time. I wish I could retire there one day, but not looking likely unless I am 70 years old or so.

[@karlsthailand]

The trend seems to be towards globalisation and dilution of individual cultures. Like you say you can’t blame individual natures for wanting some of the perceived benefits of the West but perhaps they shouldn’t be so fast to give up what they already have? Cheers

[@MarkSantaCruz]

Wonderful memories there Karl. Never boring even without the internet. I loved nineties Koh Samui despite being laid low with food poisoning for a week from the moment I got there the first time. Stayed at IKK Bungalows in Chawang right round near the airport. So was it Samui Highland that set off your love of hiking? I guess the 5 baht cookies were lacking in certain ingredients! Looking forward to part three.

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks. Yes, plenty of things you might find in your cookies in those day Mark lol

[@ATIWatchReviews]

Great stories from the past. Koh samui was a true paradise then it seems.

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks. It was an honour to see it when having a paradise beach to yourself could be an everyday thing. I’m sure it’s still beautiful today although I haven’t been for 17 years now but there’s no turning back for sure

[@whittakerwinstanleyiii4051]

Amazing how you remember the girls names you met, you must wonder where they are now sometimes, i would. Great memories to share Karl

[@karlsthailand]

It's strange but having all those pictures has helped me to remember their names. Yes, I sometimes wonder and sometimes did meet/hear from them many years later. Cheers

[@GatorJake]

Karl, such great pictures and tales of your youth. Those photos of Samui -- the natural colors of the water, the unspoiled flora -- incredible. Your girl on Samui looked "sun-kissed (13:00)." Skin used to pure, unpolluted air, and a bit of sun. Sometime you'll have to tell more about that "luminous crab" that chased you! Cheers!

[@karlsthailand]

Cheers, yes, that crab. Actually the crabs were genuinely luminous but the cookies seemed to make them grow in stature lol

[@GatorJake]

@@karlsthailand

[@nurotracker6061]

We were on ko Samui 1986 then went up north for water festival then up to the boarder. Glad I kept the photos and stories - risky time hiking but lived to remember the details

[@karlsthailand]

That’s great and especially that you still have the pictures to go with the memories. Photography was so much more expensive back then, a limited number of frames on the roll of film, the fact that you had no idea what you had until the film was processed and the fragility of the final media means that getting anything more than the odd snapshot from that time is pretty hard today.

[@kayflip2233]

This is awesome. You're showing an angle of Thailand that most Westerners don't get to learn about. Your passion for Thailand shows. Thanks.

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks for that astute observation Kay. I’m glad you noticed

[@bh4407]

Your liv'n the dream, Karl. Nice!

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks b h, I’m so happy that I found Thailand when I did

[@jiraratboonwej2816]

Your pictures in the collection are one of the kind..thank you for sharing..

[@karlsthailand]

My pleasure, I’m glad that you enjoyed them, there are more to come

[@zacdalton2983]

Brilliant brings back so many memories, i was in most of those places a few years later between 92 and 95.

[@karlsthailand]

I went back to Patpong 2 weeks ago for the first time in many years, it’s a ghost of it’s former self

[@zacdalton2983]

@@karlsthailand i haven't been to Patpong for years used to frequent a few places there back in the 90's, i think Safari bar was one of my favourites. i did go to soi cowboy around 5 or 6 years ago and ran into Kenny who used to have Kennys or My place on soi sri bamphen. Was last in Bangkok 2 years ago but these days i rarely leave Koh Chang.

[@barryseal-7710]

@4.00 minz I have the exact same pic of Hadrin bay !! Before paradise was lost.... Hooked on this Chanel already great stuff Karl absolutely great 👌🏻✨

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks so much, Samui and Phangan are still beautiful place but I don’t recall seeing water this clear there since. Glad that you enjoy my content, cheers

[@markfulwell4256]

Thank goodness there's someone else who was in Bangkok back then! My first trip was in June 1987, and what a wild time it was. 17:18 Ah, the Grand Prix, sadly long gone. If there is such a thing as a "local" in Bangkok, then that was mine, and I met a great girl there. We ended up seeing each other for the next three years. Funnily enough, I got in touch with her again recently and found out she's a grandmother now. Time flies.

[@karlsthailand]

That's great Mark, I'm just happy that I have some pictures left and a clear enough memory to share a bit of those times with people. I still enjoy Thailand a lot but I also like a bit of nostalgia. Thanks for your own memories of Grand Prix Bar.

[@markfulwell4256]

@@karlsthailand Got rid of most of my photos when I got married. Bad move.

[@karlsthailand]

I hear that from so many different people, I guess for many it's part of moving on in their lives

[@CJINPARADISE]

Very cool Karl reminiscing good times

[@pattraynor3615]

Brilliant Karl, and I'd say the exchange rate wasnt bad either 🤣🤣

[@karlsthailand]

Actually it was about the same as it is now. It was 42 Baht to the £ in the late 80’s. It was only after the currency crash of 97 that the exchange rate was really good for 10 or 11 years. Thanks very much for your comment Pat

[@Nessyk01]

I just stayed in Koh Samui and could hear that sound at night in my room ! Glad I didn’t know it was a massive lizard keeping me company 😆

[@karlsthailand]

I tell you that noise had me puzzled for days and days

[@tapptom]

Great recollections!

[@karlsthailand]

Glad you enjoyed the memories and thanks

[@maipenraionyourthai1943]

Awesome photo's Karl. New subscriber right here mate!

[@karlsthailand]

I hope you enjoy my other content and thanks for the sub!

[@maximilianswansson1264]

I remember staying at the same beach in a hut that looked close to identical to the one in your pictures back in 2002, i think it was about 280b back then, but well, time flies it's close to 22 years ago already. Thanks for a great video

[@karlsthailand]

That’s great….280 Baht lol. A bargain even then and yes, hasn’t time flown? Hope that you enjoy my other videos too. Cheers

[@thefatchap4675]

so refreshing your channel.a big change from farang showing you their pizza or commenting on the awesome bacon for breakfast.good work Karl

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks very much, I try to do what I want to rather than what everyone else does. I appreciate the fact that some people appreciate my take on things.

[@truckerfromreno]

Brilliant video. Great stories and pics. First class.

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks again Bobby, more on their way

[@mal3519]

Just smiled all the way through that , a great story with photos to match , Lovely vlog Karl cant wait for the next one .

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks Mal

[@stevebowness9435]

Another Wonderful video from the glorious 80s Thailand, Koh Samui was such a beautiful island back then as I mentioned previously I was on Lamai February 88 Thailand is your whole world Karl and will be with you forever❤

[@karlsthailand]

Glad you enjoyed it and yes, wasn't Samui just so perfect back then? Cheers

[@markdumbrell2618]

So good seeing the old pics, I can’t believe your mate Adam hasn’t been back cos he’s smiling ear to ear in every pic. Look forward to the next one ☝️

[@karlsthailand]

He might well have been back Mark, we lost contact about 2 years later. I did actually drive to his hometown about 10 years ago and asked after him but my attempts to contact him got nowhere

[@das9261]

Fabulous stuff Karl, a real trip down memory lane for you and great viewing for us! Cheers mate have a great week David from Glasgow🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks Dave, hope you are well

[@mariettathornton5924]

Love your story Karl❤️ Thanks so much sharing your memories of Thailand from the very beginning! Gosh wasn’t it awesome to be young and in a foreign country back then? Bet you boys had a blast after eating those cookies 😉 I look forward to seeing more of your videos:)

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks Marietta, you made me laugh, yes we certainly found out why some of the cookies were 10 Baht instead of 5! 😂

[@keepintouchthailand9983]

I love this episode, I love people sharing memories

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks very much, I enjoyed sharing some of my memories

[@doingthingsdifferently]

love seeing the photos, thanks for sharing

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks J, more to come

[@anthonyjames5966]

Karl. Great I took no pics when I was there 1990

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks. Yes, I am so glad that I took and kept these pictures now

[@jamesgraham446]

No internet, no digital cameras, no Google maps! Travel way more fun back then. With all the information available now, when you go somewhere new, the trip ends up being some amalgamation of everything you researched beforehand and the experience on the ground. More pure pre digital everything.

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks James. When you think about it it’s no surprise that pictures from back then are a lot rarer. There were less travellers in general and film was expensive and required processing

[@davidf2881]

Karl Soi cowboy is in Soi 7. I was there a few years ago 2020. There are some old buildings/ titie bars nestled in between the more modern bars which are open. You can see some really old looking closed down bars from the past with the old glossy signage still up. They look like very old bars from the 80s and 90s. Its like a time warp walking down soi 7, a mix of the old and new.I bet those walls have seen some shi# over the years.

[@karlsthailand]

Cheers Dave. btw SC is actually between Sukumvit Soi 21 and 23. I have checked out Soi 7 for years but have fond memories of the German Beer Garden there.

[@theirishmaninnewzealand5982]

Great video mate. Heading to Thailand in June. Not been there since 1991. Looking forward to it. Cheers

[@karlsthailand]

My pleasure, I hope the video brought back some good memories for you. Btw, there’s a playlist on my KZbin channel featuring all the videos I made using my old slides, they’re quite popular

[@SpeedyBlueBiker1]

Great trip to Koh Samui. I've only been there a few times with the last being in 1999. I'm sure that it is much different now.

[@karlsthailand]

I used to go there often but haven’t been since 2005, like you I wonder what changes have occurred? I’ll have to get back there and do a ‘Than and Now’ video

[@RussellGraystone]

Hey Karl, I had to stop watching your vids recently, having been subjected to a servere attack of nostalgia. At the age I am today it is hard to get my head around it all. People and places. Yes it is hard to describe what is was like back in those days, pity I wasn't a big camera person like you were in those days but I do have a few. Was talking to my Thai WIfe the other day about it, when we first found Samui at the end of 82. Thanks mate, AlthoughI wish I never felt like this though. Simply great times and great days, so glad I did it! Never any trouble, nothing like you hear or read about today. Take care.

[@karlsthailand]

Things were definitely more innocent and less complicated back then weren’t they? I still enjoy Thailand today and for me that’s the most important thing. Cheers

[@kittian58]

A pleasure to watch and listen👌

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks Kittian

[@DiscoDrew]

Fantastic 👍

[@karlsthailand]

Cheers DD

[@ludstours8544]

I 1st had drink in the blue fox March 1985 on my 1st day in bangkok,was married to a Thai in November 1986 ,still married to the Same girl now,I am going to live in bangkok this October,I sent your video part 1 to a lot of friends,they all loved it,keep up the good work thanks,

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks Luds tours. It’s a nice thought that my video has brought some of your happy memories from the 80’s back to you. It still makes me sad to see that the Blue Fox is now a 7-11

[@capetonian]

Great vlog, Karl.

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks so much, glad you are enjoying my content

[@perolsson4344]

Very nice Karl ! It sure looks like happy days that you had and amazing memories.

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks. You can’t beat your first trip to Thailand can you Per?

[@perolsson4344]

@@karlsthailand No you are probably right,, even though the second and third etc. also was amazing 🙂

[@willysanker1866]

When’s Part 3? Thanks for sharing Karl 👍

[@karlsthailand]

Part 3 should be up on Thursday Willy. No problem

[@ทักษ์มากสังข์]

Happy story

[@karlsthailand]

Yes, it was a very happy trip

[@t147han]

Great merories.I first went 1985.But them days only had 2 weeks holiday.Great to watch this because i remember very little.I went with someone who had been many times before,so i just followed him.We stayed one night in bangkok and then down to pattaya.Always remember cowboy and bar with pool table and girls playing without underclothes.I hated bangkok.so numerous years after went straight to pattaya or phucket.Was not untill 2004 that i could go for nearly the whole year.Stopped going 2017.Attitude has changed so so much now that i dislike the place.

[@karlsthailand]

Things have definitely changed but I still enjoy the place. It was so good that your first visit was with an old Thailand hand. Cheers

[@trevorbartels1730]

Fun times back then...

[@karlsthailand]

They certainly were Trevor

[@lkm5462]

Excellent stories

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks Lk M

[@gordon3063]

great video of the "old days" , how about you make some more please

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks Gordon, this is part 2 and there are more coming (basically for every year from 87-92)

[@billmoeller8897]

Excellent !!! Thanks for taking us along on your walk down memory lane. Brought back memories of my first trip back in 93. The best of times!!

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks Bill, they certainly were great times for us youngsters then, even our limited budget couldn’t stop the fun

[@billmoeller8897]

@@karlsthailand Been going back every year since 93. When I retired in 2000, would spend 6 months in Thailand, 6 months in the USA. Then covid hit. Just got out tickets to return in November. Looking forward to getting out of the US (it is bad here) & seeing how Thailand & Chiang Mai has changed, if any, over the last few years.

[@karlsthailand]

Glad you can get back here now Bill

[@clydewilson8108]

Thanks for the memories. I traveled to Thailand about a year after you did in 1988 it was so good to see some of the photos because I never took a camera on that first trip. I stayed in Daret's house and Chiang Mai about a year after you did and that photo was really great to see. I've been back a few times over the years it's very hard to describe for people just how it's changed. it was just so mobbed the last time I went well I thought about the first time there were not so many westerners.

[@karlsthailand]

It was indeed a special time Clyde and I’m glad it brought a bit of it back for you. Daret’s House was a backpacker’s classic and only closed about 5 years ago I think.

[@ViewTalay]

if you found Soi Cowboy sooner Karl you'd have defo been skint. Are you still in touch with your friends that you travelled with? Thanks for sharing, top memories and pics

[@karlsthailand]

That’s for sure Mark. I lost track of Adam a few years later and have never been able to find him since. I am still in contact with Phil very occasionally. My pleasure

[@craigmitcham2619]

really enjoying this karl, brilliant to see thailand bk in the days before i even started going

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks Craig, a few more to come yet

[@santorini8423]

youve got some great memories to take to your maker, watched you on paddy Doyles Pattaya vid the other day , you come across as a genuine bloke, im in thailand in dec, if i bump into you ill get you a ice cold beer mate

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks, I enjoyed that sequence I did with Paddy. Sure, I like ice cold beer

[@bodazephyr6629]

Another great video! Superstar was still going in 2020, but I'm not sure if the pandemic finally killed it off. I wonder what happened to the jukeboxes from the Blue Fox, they would have been a good find.

[@karlsthailand]

Cheers, I did make a video where I returned to Patpong last year as it happens. I will put a link at the end of this reply. Yes, those jukeboxes were a piece of local history, if they could speak then who knows what stories they could tell kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z53YY5qDnruSras

[@MrSimonj1970]

Jesus that sunburn must have hurt!! Great stuff again Karl, thanks!

[@karlsthailand]

I really can’t remember to be honest but probably. Thanks

[@gregoryfrancisjames5071]

Most enjoyable. So what happened in the intervening years? How long were you away from Thailand... Another video please: 'Karl The Wilderness Years'.....Unless you've done one already

[@karlsthailand]

There weren't really any wilderness years, my camera developed a fault about 1992 so I stopped taking pictures that's all. At the time I thought well I have all the pictures I need anyway. Of course with hindsight I'd rather have carried on but I didn't. I've spent time in Thailand every year since my first visit. Cheers

[@shinertom142]

Love these Karl … looking back for you must be !!.. I dunno but must be utterly amazing, keep posting your history and memories.. but what a life you are having 🙏🙏❤️✌️

[@karlsthailand]

Cheers Tom, yes it is pretty cool to be able to go back via these pictures. Still some more to come, thanks again

[@dannowestiedanflarty6990]

Brilliant video ,been splurging the cash the passed decade or so when I go to Thailand, nice hotels ,not haggling etc...there's something about travelling on a shoe string that adds to the character of the memories/experience....my next trip ill set myself a budget for the holiday as a whole ...on seeing the pics of you leaving I had that leaving feeling you get everytime you leave thailand 🇹🇭 what a place it is ,i feel grateful for my travels and to have found thailand the people and culture 💖

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks Danno. Thailand is and always has been a special place

[@tonymcquade]

OMG Karl, I need to meet up with you when I come back, I was there in the same time period. Your last two vids have been amazing. I'll bring all my pics, it's like a carbon copy. So impressed, the good old days, the freaking Awesome experiences an memories... You really get it, you really get it. I really hope when I get back, I can share what I have with you, all those pics... The memories people only wished they experienced. Thank you for sharing... OMB!!!

[@karlsthailand]

Sure Tony, I’m always up for a bit of nostalgia with someone who was there too. Yes, please bring your own pictures too

[@barshrink1175]

I really enjoyed that video. Great job narrating with the slides/photos.

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks Jeff, I really enjoyed reliving the memories evoked by the pictures my friend

[@jamieharrison3962]

Great video Karl,the days before the smartphones came into the world were so much better!

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks. Yes, mobile phones and the Internet changed everything. How did we manage without lol

[@krazeekalvin]

My first time was in 86 and been there several time's since. Heading back soon.

[@karlsthailand]

That’s great, I hope that my pictures have brought back good memories for you. Have a great trip

[@krazeekalvin]

@@karlsthailand they did. I have lived there and still have my condo there. Got stuck in the U.S. because of the mess. Planning to move back overseas in a few years, if I can wait that long.

[@andersbergman7241]

Must have been great times Kalle. Talk about memories 👍

[@karlsthailand]

You should have been there Anders. Cheers

[@mikekinsella2822]

I use to have 100s of pics from 1986-1989 Philippines Thailand and Korea but I don't have them anymore. Be nice If I could find a box with them in it at my brothers house attic which I beleieve is where they have gone. Got like 3 VHS tapes to up there of Philippines Korea and Thailand on it. The attic has not been rummaged thru in 25 yrs so who knows what we might find if we ever clean it out. one day might have to pull out the old VCR and tapes and start watching them see whats on them.

[@karlsthailand]

People love to see that stuff as photography tended to be much more limited back then because less people travelled that far and just the expense of film etc. Cheers

[@michaelstuart8775]

Great viewing mate reminds me when I went in 92 Krap Pom from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@karlsthailand]

My pictures spans from 87-92 Michael so I will have at least one video up soon with pictures from that year. Khop khun khrap

[@baldybrian]

Brilliant Karl. I wish I could stay on the beach for 40 baht today.

[@karlsthailand]

Yes, it’s a mind blower really Brian. I had such a shock when I saw how much it would cost to stay there today

[@driedekker]

Super flashbacks great video

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks, glad it took you back

[@gman210977]

Lovely photos and stories. Top video 👍

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks Glen, this is part 2, more to come

[@brooks1958]

I enjoyed part 1 and part 2 and you had some great stories and I love the pictures

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks brooks1958, it’s always nice to know that people are enjoying my content

[@kasiwawa]

This Tokay gecko made my wondering also in Ao Nang. Tanks to you I know what it was.

[@karlsthailand]

Happy I solved the mystery for you Reny

[@johncox3076]

Another very interesting video wish they were longer I not want them to end, brilliant

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks John, we’ll I certainly never wanted that first visit to either lol. Hope you are well buddy

[@coolhand4114]

Your trip reminds me of a 2 month tour of Europe I did with 2 friends in 84. Awesome time for us. Little money but it didn't matter back then. All kinds of adventures...

[@karlsthailand]

Yes, it’s the adventure of it all isn’t it? Seeing new places and meeting new people

[@hello201074]

Brilliant video, a pleasure to hear your story with the accompanying photography

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks Simon, happy you enjoyed it

[@TTWZN]

Great stuff and memory stories, i also will never forget my first hilarious trip to Thailand Bangkok.

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks. The first trip is usually the best isn’t it?

[@etherealdreams7936]

Just discovered your channel Karl. Having been to Samui three times I would love you to visit and review a visit there after all this time 👍

[@karlsthailand]

I haven’t been to Samui for 17 years now and it’s somewhere I used to go a lot. I really want to return there and make some videos including a ‘then and now’ using my old pictures. Unfortunately my budget can’t manage a trip there right now but I will take the first opportunity I get to go back there. Hope you are enjoying my channel and thanks

[@etherealdreams7936]

@@karlsthailand When the time comes I'll look forward to your perspective. I've been to Thailand 4 times. Twice to Phuket and twice Samui. I'm a bit of an enigma with others I meet that have been to Thailand as they have visited Bangkok & Pattaya. Strangely I'm curious to visit Chaing Mai as I'm interested in road cycling but allergic to hippies 😆

[@karlsthailand]

Lol. You’ll find most of them in Pai but I wouldn’t let that put you off a trip there from Chiang Mai if you get the chance

[@jmebag1]

What a trip. Do you and Adam still hang out after all those years?

[@karlsthailand]

Unfortunately I haven’t been in touch with Adam for over 30 years now. I did hear that he moved to Spain once. I went back to his home town (very small place) about 10 years ago and made enquiries but although they could remember him nobody knew his current whereabouts

[@milesgreen99]

A great follow up, I am glad the videos are doing so well. Hopefully you get a raft of new subscribers.

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks. It’s nice Michael although I did suspect that they would appeal to a wider audience. It’s great to get some new subscribers too

[@alanhamer5661]

part 2 did not dissapoint...really interesting for all us thailand lovers...what a beautiful country to live in...if u with friends loved ones and can pay your way....u still have those ripped jeans??there back in fashion now...at that age 18-21 i choose the kibbutz to leave the uk..that was my fun...found thailand a bit later..game changer...

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks. I have a new pair of ‘old’ jeans now Alan 😉

[@alanhamer5661]

@@karlsthailand u think life is better now or b4?not am easy short answer to that is there😉

[@karlsthailand]

Hard question to answer Alan. I mean I was younger then which made things different. I can’t even think that way tbh because we have no choice but to live today

[@alanhamer5661]

@@karlsthailand thats a good answer...we hv to live today...same same but differant😉

[@dantheman3830]

Great stuff again Karl. It could be Sean Flynn that you are referring to in the link to Grand Prix bar. Son of the actor Errol Flynn. He was a photo journalist during the Vietnam War and went missing whilst on an assignment in Cambodia during the 70s I believe. Thumbs up from me.

[@karlsthailand]

I’m aware of Sean Flynn, I’ve actually visited the small stretch of road just outside Chiphu in Cambodia, near the Vietnamese border where he was seized. I don’t think it was him tbh. I seem to recall it was an Aussie guy (I know Errol was Australian), he might have been killed in Thailand during one of the coups there in the 70’s. Glad you enjoyed part 2 Dan, hope you are well

[@dantheman3830]

@@karlsthailand cheers Karl. All well here and planning my next trip in November

[@drocket6521]

Fantastic tales Karl. More of these memories pls! Started my Thai adventures late 90’s, Samui was superb then, used to stay at Matlang Bungalows, chaweng, I notice the check in book at the view point had someone staying there during your time. New subscriber, look forward to checking out your other videos!!!

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks D Rocket, hope that you enjoy my content. There is more coming, these videos were for 1987 but I am doing videos for every year from 1987-1992

[@WellRoundedMBS]

thanks so very much great video good times

[@karlsthailand]

Thanks YourMoeJoe, this is part 2, more to come