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Why Does This Thai Town Feel Like Myanmar? | Sangkhlaburi 🇹🇭



Why Does This Thai Town Feel Like Myanmar? | Sangkhlaburi 🇹🇭

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Welcome to Sangkhlaburi, one of Thailand’s most unique border towns, where Mon culture, history, and traditions continue to thrive.

In this 3-day, 2-night journey, I travel from Bangkok by bus to explore the beautiful Mon community of Wangka Village. Along the way, I stay at two very different hotels—one overlooking the famous Mon Bridge and another floating peacefully on the water beside it.

Together we’ll explore the historic Wat Wang Wiwekaram, the impressive Chedi Phutthakhaya, visit two underwater temples by boat, walk across Thailand’s longest wooden bridge at sunrise, wear traditional Mon clothing, take part in the beautiful alms-giving ceremony, and enjoy the traditional Mon breakfast known as Mon Mont Hin Khar, rice noodles soup.

I’ll also share the fascinating history of Sangkhlaburi, the story of the Mon people, the construction of the Mon Bridge, and the remarkable legacy of Luang Phor Uttama, whose vision helped shape this unique community.

📍 Places featured:
• Sangkhlaburi
• Wangka Village
• Mon Bridge (Uttamanusorn Bridge)
• Wat Wang Wiwekaram
• Chedi Phutthakhaya
• Underwater Temples
• Floating Hotel
• Mon Mont Hin Khar Shop

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Thank you for travelling with me!
May everyone always be safe, healthy, and happy.
Thiha, the Traveller
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Chapters in the Video
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00:00 In this video moment
01:28 Intro
01:44 Bus Journey from Bangkok
04:05 First Impression of Sangkhlaburi
05:41 Hotel with Mon Village View
07:13 History of Ban Wangka
08:32 Late Lunch near the Bridge
09:31 Night View of Mon Bridge
09:45 Morning View of Ban Wangka & Breakfast at Hotel
11:52 Sunrise at Mon Bridge & History
15:50 Wangka Village Walk
18:32 Wat Wang Wiwekaram
19:45 Chedi Phutthakhaya
23:35 Floating Hotel Experience
26:33 Boat to the Underwater Temples
31:48 Kayaking under Mon Bridge
33:47 Mookrata Time
35:24 Traditional Mon Costume & Alms Giving
41:52 Mon Mont Hin Khar Breakfast
43:32 Outro

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6 Comments

  1. @nancherryhlaing.

    ထိုင်းမှာ မွန်လူမျိုးတွေရှိတာ ကိုသီဟရဲ့ travel blog ကိုကြည့်မှသိရပါတယ် ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါတယ်
    Always Watching your video.

  5. @ThihaTheTraveller

    🙏 Welcome to Sangkhlaburi! စန်ခလာဘူရီ ကနေ ကြိုဆိုပါတယ်ဗျား….

    This wasn't just a trip to see the famous Mon Bridge—it was an unforgettable journey into the history, culture, and daily life of Thailand's Mon community.
    ဒီကိုလာလည်တာ နာမည်ကြီး မွန်တံတားကိုပဲ လာကြည့်ရုံ မဟုတ်ဘဲ – တကယ်ကို မမေ့နိုင်စရာ ခရီးတစ်ခုအနေနဲ့ ထိုင်းမှာ ရွေ့ပြောင်းနေထိုင်လာကြတဲ့ မွန်လူမျိုးစုတွေရဲ့ သမိုင်းကြောင်း၊ ယဉ်ကျေးမှုဓလေ့ နဲ့ နေ့စဉ်ဘဝတွေကို မြင်တွေ့ခံစားရစေပါတယ်။

    💬 If you could experience one thing here, what would you choose?
    အကယ်လို့များ ကိုယ်တိုင် ဒီနေရာကို ရောက်ဖို့ ဖြစ်လာမယ်ဆိုရင် ဘယ်တစ်ခုကို ဦးဆုံးလုပ်ဆောင်မယ်လို့ တွေးမိပါလဲဗျ…

    🌉 Walking across the Mon Bridge at sunrise / မွန်တံတားပေါ် နေအထွက်မှာ လမ်းတက်လျှောက်မလား
    🚤 Visiting the underwater temples / ရေအောက်မြုပ်နေတဲ့ ကျောင်းတော်ရာတွေကို သွားကြည့်မလား
    👘 Wearing traditional Mon clothing / မွန်ရိုးရာဝတ်စုံ ဝတ်ဆင်မလား
    🍜 Trying Mont Hin Khar / မွန် မုန့်ဟင်းခါး မြည်းစမ်းကြည့်မလား

    I'd love to hear your answer!
    ဘာလေးဖြစ်မလဲဆိုတာ ကော်မန့်ခဲ့တာလေး မျှော်နေပါမယ်ဗျာ…

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