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staying in a tent in Thailand

2023-11-20 · 7 min

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  1. Hello, welcome back to my tent. So I've

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  2. got the tent to myself for now. I thought

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  3. I'd give you a quick tour of my tent. As

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  4. you can see, it's a very nice day today.

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  5. And there's no one around. Look, there's

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  6. other tents next to us, but there's no one

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  7. living in them at the moment. So it's

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  8. very, very peaceful and quiet, apart from

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  9. the air conditioning, which is very noisy.

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  10. So we spent the night in the tent last

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  11. night, and it was pretty good. It was,

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  12. um, a bit noisy because of the air

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  13. conditioning, and then very early in the

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  14. morning, I thought I could hear a monkey.

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  15. It was like a chimpanzee or monkey kind of

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  16. screeching sound, and then I could hear

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  17. something running up and down along the

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  18. side of the tent. It was really weird

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  19. because I haven't seen any monkeys around

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  20. here. I'm pretty sure it was a monkey. I

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  21. don't know what else it could have been.

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  22. There are these squirrels outside on the

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  23. trees, but I don't think they would make

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  24. that kind of noise. So today I think we're

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  25. gonna go to a waterfall and maybe do some

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  26. canoeing or kayaking in a lake,

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  27. some kind of water. And then I don't

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  28. really know what else we're gonna do. The

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  29. only problem is there are quite a lot of

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  30. mosquitoes. I already got bitten a few

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  31. times on my arm, and there's like a

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  32. mosquito net, but as soon as you go

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  33. outside, you get swarmed by mosquitoes.

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  34. And the toilet facilities, it's like a

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  35. couple minutes walk that way. So if you

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  36. really need the toilet in the middle of

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  37. the night, you have to, um, go for a

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  38. little walk in the darkness, which is a

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  39. bit annoying. But apart from that, the

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  40. toilet and the shower facilities were

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  41. quite nice. So I'll give you a quick tour

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  42. of the tent. It is a bit dark even with

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  43. the windows open. It's kind of dark

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  44. because of the roof on top of the tent.

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  45. So you've got the main living room in here

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  46. with the TV, fridge and stuff, sofa.

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  47. And then you've got the bedroom over here,

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  48. and that's the bed. And then you've got a

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  49. nice view of the lake outside. There was a

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  50. ginger cat outside, it's quite cute, and

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  51. then it came up to us. The only thing is I

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  52. don't like the color of the water. The

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  53. water's kind of green looking, brownish

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  54. green,

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  55. not super nice looking water. But it seems

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  56. like all water in Thailand is like a

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  57. brown-green color. All the rivers, the

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  58. canals, the lakes, they always have that

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  59. brownish green look. I don't know why. I

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  60. don't know if it means that it's dirty or

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  61. if it's like full of mud and poo at the

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  62. bottom. I don't know, maybe. I think

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  63. that's just what water looks like here.

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  64. It would be nice if it was blue or

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  65. something, a nice sky blue.

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  66. It's weird because the sky is blue right

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  67. now, you can see in the reflection, so you

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  68. think that means the water is going to be

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  69. blue as well, but it's not. Usually the

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  70. water reflection reflects the sky,

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  71. but it doesn't here. Yeah, it's a nice,

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  72. nice little view, very relaxing. Got my

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  73. ROG Ally charging down there, played a

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  74. bit of Spider-Man on it last night. It's

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  75. pretty good. I mean, you get PC gaming

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  76. experience whilst you're traveling, which

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  77. is really nice. The only

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  78. annoying thing is you can't plug it into a

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  79. battery bank unless you have a powerful

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  80. one, which I don't. Who's that?

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  81. Oh look, it's my neighbor. And then

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  82. stepping outside, have a very nice view of

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  83. the lake and

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  84. the trees. I'm so

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  85. glad no one's staying in the other tents.

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  86. It would be so— I mean, it would be kind

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  87. of awkward. I feel like it would be really

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  88. awkward if there were other people living

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  89. right next to us over there. We came at a

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  90. good time. There's a few people, but they

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  91. didn't put them near us. There's some

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  92. people over there. It's not very busy

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  93. today because it's the middle of the week.

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  94. Yeah, it's very nice.

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  95. I wonder how much it costs to buy one of

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  96. It's kind of creepy at nighttime,

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  97. but it's very clean.

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  98. I think the showers are good.

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  99. I just washed my face.

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  100. Yeah, I think the facilities are pretty

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  101. good.

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  102. Be careful not to step on a slug.

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  103. Imagine you step on those slugs, you'll

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  104. just get squished. Where was it?

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  105. It was here, wasn't it? Damn, it moved

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  106. pretty quickly.

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  107. Nighttime at the campsite.

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  108. Have you finished yet?

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  109. She's having a shower.

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  110. Oh my God, look, it's a slug!

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  111. It's so big.

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  112. Trying to brush my teeth here, and I think

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  113. that thing over on the wall is a slug as

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  114. well.

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  115. What is

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  116. that?

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  117. Look, it's a slug.

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  118. That is huge.

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