Southeast Asia in 2025: What You Need to Know Before You Go

Southeast Asia in 2025: What You Need to Know Before You Go

Hey guys, good morning. Good morning from Bali. So today guys, I’m not going to go for a walk. I’m not going to show you guys around because there is few videos coming up uh from Bali. Obviously, I’m still here. I have I don’t know maybe 20 more days left which I’m going to explore different part of Bali, film as much as I could and hopefully you guys like it. But just I want to tell you guys about my experience for past three years of traveling in Southeast Asia. So I’m traveling in Southeast Asia of past three years. But obviously I’m in YouTube for over one year. I didn’t felt when I left Canada. But one thing that I got to tell you guys there is something called hype. Usually people following this hype a lot especially what I find in tourism you know like what I mean by that sometimes you see lot of people going to one location because of the white because people says you know for example the waterfall somewhere is so nice so everybody go there but that’s not the reality guys for example I believe based on my experience I’ve been to Bali so many times in the beginning I was just extending my visa extending my visa for two months two months two months I stayed in Bali a lot so if you’re new subscriber to my channel and if you’re watching my new videos like my recent videos if you go back to the playlist you can see it I have some video in in Bali not too many but I have few that time I was a so-called YouTuber there. But my point is guys, hype. What I mean by hype, if you go and research Toronto or Canada real estate, Canadian real estate, especially Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal for past 10 years, it was living with the hype of investing in condominium. Everybody was buying a condominium. Everybody. when you used to tell anybody that I’m in real estate business, you know, whatever that you do in real estate, mortgage, I don’t know, uh flipping property, construction, civil engineer, selling real estate, whatever. Everybody had same question like where should I buy condominium, condominium, condominium, condominium because it was a hype, hype. But if you go right now and search real estate in Canada, nobody cannot sell condominium. Every single project is cancelled because for developer it just doesn’t make sense to build them because nobody buying it. A lot of people they want to get rid of the contract because usually you had to sign the contract and it was lot of drama and you know like most of the right was for the developer nothing for the consumer. So people used to buy buy everybody was buying condominium. People buying one two three four five like people was going nuts. Now nobody buying a condominium. So this is a hype guys. I believe some of the destination in Southeast Asia is completely a wipe. One of them Bali. Bali is just a wipe. Bunch of broken people mostly from European countries mostly young people less than four years old. Most of them pretending that they doing something online. These days everybody after co I’m doing something online and if you do some research I believe 1% of them they’re telling the truth. 99% of them is just a hype because if you come to Bali guys most goodlooking guys most beautiful girls in Bali when you walking at the beach when you going somewhere it just mindblowing. Most of the guys is just less than four years old. All six-pack, all good-looking, but all broken mentally and financially. Like you can’t see it. Most of the girls are gorgeous. But if you go sit in the cafe, if you go to the bar, if you go anywhere, if you can’t see it, these people is just mentally broken, financially broken, just pretending to have that nice life to drive nice bike and living somewhere in Shangu if you are into the party or Uboot. So between all these people that you know like here and doing seriously something online is probably limited. Number two, I be I was in Bali last year. If you come right now, you’re going to be shocked. There is absolutely I was staying in Shangu a lot and I’m sure if you following my channel for a while, you know I walk around. So when you walking it’s completely different when you’re absorbing stuff than driving because if you have a motor bike you going because I walk I see stuff that so many people cannot see here it just developing everywhere guys you cannot find any empty places now anymore everywhere is just developing developing developing developing is just a gas house hotel, restaurant, spa, all goodlooking stuff. I was here in this area that this hotel, this gas house located, guys, last year. It was another hotel that, if you don’t believe me, go to my content and take a look at it, guys. This place, it was under construction. Now, it’s completely finished. You see that, guys? It’s completely finished. So this place wasn’t here last year. So there’s a small swimming pool and you see there’s a development just front of us and there is another development behind the dog be behind the walls guys. So what I mean by that this area that I came guys only one brand new guest house was green something that I stayed there for one week. None of this hotel was here. None of this gas house. No. But I believe no more than 10 20 of them. Lot of brand new villas. Lot of beautiful villas. Now next to me this is the vas that is one bedroom or twobedroom or whatever. Do you guys see that there’s enough lights? Can you guys see me enough? Okay, let me move myself like this. So now there is lot of villas next to me one bedroom twobedroom with this small swimming pool. Beautiful. Like I walked to one of them and it was like mindblowing guys. But my point is this is a wipe. This is the people that lot of people coming to invest here. Lot of these gas houses is just the money from overseas but is completely overbuilt. It just like sometimes you passing by so many cafe and restaurant beautiful. It’s just like I’m telling you guys new. You walk in front of the spa or this I don’t know nailing salon or or fantasy hair salon or whatever. Empty. Empty. There’s lot of tourist here, but because it’s overbuilt, you don’t see people. You understand? So what I mean by that is just although Bali is just absolutely overrated to me and it just so many people now here but it just everything is overbuilt everywhere is a gym because there’s a lot of young people coming and all of them want to fit everywhere is a gym. So when you passing by front of gigantic building that is a gym. So somebody paying for this rent and and electricity and the water and the security and the staff. So I don’t know where this money coming from and I don’t get it. And but there is a lot of tourists here guys. Mostly young people mostly is just the living with the hype hype. So there is I believe like 30 35 huge beach club here but I don’t know is overbuilt. I wish them all the best but I think there is something wrong. It just Okay, let me see if there’s enough lighting again. Okay, just I have a problem with the lighting in this. Uh, so let me see if I can change my I want to get I want you guys to see enough. Wow. Okay, let’s see if I put it like here. Yeah, the lighting is now fixed. I hope so. What I mean by guys like this hype, it just drives people drives people somewhere. But that doesn’t mean you know that’s the right things to do or man there is not enough lighting and so let me see where can I put my camera so you guys can see me clearly man. Yeah. So this is the situation guys. This is the situation with the wipe. So is it worth it? Be honest with you. to me is just overrated. Absolutely overrated. So it just like I don’t have nothing in common here. I the other day I went to the beach club mostly 40 years old less than 40 years old between 20 to 40 years old. So just coming here to jump jumping up and down. It’s just like nobody talking to each other. End of the night definitely there’s a fight definitely because people are drinking too much. Sorry guys. I’m just keep me moving this camera because I want you guys to see me clearly. So, end of the night is going to be fight because over drinking and it’s just like you’re looking at the people. These people are just mostly living here but it’s just mentally broken. It’s just like in this guest house guys there’s a 26 room. A lot of them living here for a long time or staying here for one or two months but you don’t see nobody. You don’t see nobody like you just at the night usually you see people smashing their door after like 10 11:00 because mostly I don’t know what they doing in their room so-called um working online at night going out so this is a life here another hand so let’s talk about Thailand I will just share my experience about Thailand Thailand is over I believe tourism is going to be really really even go less than 2025 because there’s a few issue in Thailand. Number one, price gone up so much and people Thai people got so greedy. They wanted they treat people this is a standard things in Southeast Asia that they treat people like a ATM machine. They think our money doesn’t have value. But in Thailand it got crazy. So I’m traveling in Thailand for past three years and I asked so many people that traveling in Thailand for past 20 years, 15 years. Everybody says the same thing. They said, “Yeah, we feel that people are not friendly anymore. There is no smile. Just they want to scam you. They want to grab your money.” And I want to talk about the thick thick wipe about Thailand. A lot of people going to Thailand because they think, “Oh, for the woman, woman, woman, woman, you know, I’m going to date, I’m going to find a girlfriend. I’m sick of my girlfriend of mentality of European or or North American because they demand too much.” Let me tell you the truth. I’m not the bar guy. I’m not the club guy, but I have enough intelligent and I come across enough women in Thailand. If you think you’re going to find somebody in Thailand, you are absolutely out of your mind. 99.99999% [Music] is transactional. Even if you have a girlfriend, it’s just a transactional because that’s a culture of Thailand, you know, like if you date, you need to pay. So maybe some of your angry old white men that you’re going to watch this video and insult me that oh buddy, everybody pays for the woman. Yes, maybe your experience and with lot of other people experience is different. Yes. End of the day, end of the day, usually in any relationship, men’s pays more. But I dated lot of decent girls in Canada, you know, lot of them. That sometimes I’m going back and I’m thinking, oh, I really messed up some of them, you know, like I didn’t make the right decision, you know, maybe I had a kid now, maybe I was with that girl, decent girl, doctor, you know, good job. I had all kind of girlfriend be honest with you. Yes. End of the day I believe I spent more money in the restaurant. I paid more for so many other things. But it was a relationship. It was a [ __ ] relationship. She didn’t need my money. She didn’t ask for money. She wasn’t prostitute. She wasn’t bar girl. She wasn’t fooling me and then send me to somewhere out of the country and act oh I need a money for my phone I need money for this I need money these people getting food and this old people or whatever old young I don’t know these girls fooling everybody in Thailand so this is this is not the relationship if you think this is a relationship and you’re going to insult called me back. Hey buddy, everybody pays for the woman somehow. You You are ugly old fat man that you never had a right relationship. So you think that you have to pay. This is a mentality of Thailand. But I believe that’s changing too because last time that I was in Thailand, I said most of the girls is gone because I guess that everybody figure it out. Now if you go watch the Paya move Paya news every day there’s a fight between Indians and prostitute because now there’s nobody left in Thailand. So who is left? bunch of Indians, Indians that coming to Pateo or so many other part of Southeast Asia for sex tourism because I believe all these men’s single walking around. Yeah, I mean single may not I believe a lot of them they’re not single but they’re walking around in beach road or whatever and you see like they are grown up man 40 50 because in Indian culture they have to get married very fast so it is not like other western culture let’s say they don’t get involved with their kids in Indian culture they get involved in the boys and girls business that they have to get married so if you see 40 years old 35 years old or 50 years old man that walking on the beach road and talking to these girls. These people are married, they have kids, they have family, but they come there for prostitution. I totally believe that. And why there’s so many clubs and so many men, single men that walk in group and hand to hand and most of the Indians even holding their hand each other in beach. They’re going for prostitution. That’s a sex tourism. So what I find in Thailand, Thailand treating normal tourists really bad. And the reason is I believe they really getting greedy. So all they want money, money, money, money. It just to them is just money now. So that’s why I believe the service level gone down, the attitude in Thailand gone down, the price gone up so much that it’s just not affordable anymore. Exchange rate is sucks. So I believe Thailand pretty much tourism is gone. I believe when you’re changing so much direction of the country it just something wrong because if you change the visa if you change this if you change that so much you try to grab everything but when you grabing things you’re going to miss the right things. So I believe the Thailand situation is like that. Vietnam I I have a really good good experience in Vietnam and bad experience. So the good experience in Vietnam, Vietnam is going to be a uh mixed problem like Thailand or Indones Bali and so on and so forth. And the reason is everybody going to Vietnam now. But Vietnam culture is completely different than Thai culture. For example, in Vietnam, most of them very straightforward, you know, like and another problem is the communication because in Thailand, most of the people they need basic English, but in Vietnam, no. Sometimes zero zel n absolutely nothing. Is it in Vietnam foreigners like a ATM machine? Yes. Is it a scam there too? Yes. If the woman 99% not 99% that’s different really I want to give you right information is it like I believe like 70% of them if they want to get involved with the foreigners are business especially online and so on and so forth yes do you have a chance to find the normal girlfriend in Vietnam more than Thailand absolutely Absolutely. Your chance is much much higher because I find Vietnamese girls are very straightforward and also they are very very driving individual like they have a job. They want to grow you know it’s just not like Thailand. I find out most Thai girls are so lazy. they want to just free money and she’s like I believe like somebody is if he’s struggling in Isan her friends you know says hey why you struggling in Isan why you working so hard in the restaurant and not making money come come if you good looking come to paya and you’re going to make money so when they see the easy life they get lazy you know like if you have some you know so-called those people that they think they find girlfriend the bar and they’re going to go back to their country and send the money. So, make them make them lazy. But in Vietnam is not like that. Most of the people, you know, like most of the girls, they don’t drink or I didn’t see them like that. They’re more into the exercise and they are more you know like I find them they are more civilized you know in in aspect of you know they want to grow they study they have a job so your chances to find a decent girlfriend in Vietnam is just much much more Bali first time when I came to Bali I dated few girls second time that I came dated few girls And I had a really good experience with them. Really good experience. Even one of the girl, I hope I find her too, she took me everywhere here with the motor bike to the nice waterfall and so on and so forth. She had a job. She didn’t need nothing. Nothing. Absolutely. Even when I was offering her to pay for a gas like she was telling me like why you doing that? Because she was driving me like two hours and I know what kind of salary these people have. And I was saying, “No, you’re driving me, you know, seriously, like come on, let me help, you know, like for her like it’s okay, you know, like I can’t pay. You don’t need to, you know, pay for my gas.” So, but as a gym man, I never ever do that because I knew like what kind of salary she has. She was working in spa like she was she was a management position, but you know, like come on, like for her is some kind of money. First of all, she’s driving me there like obviously I have to buy lunch, dinner as a gentleman, you know, like I totally but she never like she was a decent individual. I had few dates like this. I had one like that. I had another girl, she was working in construction business in administration aspect and she was hold renting villa. I had another girls that she was a chef here in very luxurious villa. It was like five villa I believe and the owner was Russian and she was a chef. So this villa it was really expensive villa that time she was telling me every night is like nightly rate is 1,500. This is talking about two years ago but she showed me the picture it was like oh macaroni. It was like three bedroomedroom twobedroom. She said like we have a mix of different villas that is next to each other. So she was a chef there. So she was preparing a breakfast, lunch and dinner for people because some sometimes she was telling me like I’m going to finish 8:00, 9:00 and then she was coming to see me. She was the only chef and you know they had a cleaning staff and so on and so forth and she said she has a helper you know server and whatever like she said like we have to prepare any meal that these people want. So it was like one of those very high end. So this is the people that normal job they never ever ask for anything. So but this time that I came to Bali guys like every match that they have I have is pretty much 99% is working girls online. So pretty much are freelancers or prostitute. So I believe the whole face of Southeast Asia changed like anywhere else. Last time when I went to Canada guys, it was a culture shock for me. Okay, Canada is a multicultural country. So people came from everywhere. So we have a Iranian area, we have a Russian area, we have a Chinese area, we have a Indian area. But when I arrived to the airport, every single individual from security, from any position that you can imagine in airport, it was Indian. When I was talking to people like everybody says Indian taking over the Canada, you know, like people say we sick of Indians now because Indians are everywhere. It because used to be only Bmpton. It was a area called Bmpton. But now everybody says everywhere. Even when I was in downtown Toronto or at Tobico, everywhere was Indian. Then I went to get my driver license guys, I need to do my renewal. When I was online and thanks to my good friend Arta, she took me on Friday because I thought only between 9 to5 but was one or two location. We call it service Canada. So this is the place that you go for the renewal. So they take your new picture and yada yada yada and they give you a piece of paper. So that’s your driving license for two weeks and then they send you the car. So and my good friend Arthur she said no there’s few location now because so many immigrant now everybody wants driver license, health card or whatever. In my time three years ago it was 9 to5 kind of job 9 to5 uh kind of hours. But now some of them because it’s so much demand that like whole country like whole world now in Canada. Uh so now probably they there is a huge demand. So then now opening between I don’t know 9 to eight some of the location. So my good friend took me to one of these location she knew that. So when I went to online online guys it was very fast process. It wasn’t really long but at least took me like 45 minutes I believe. Every single individual, every I came back to I told Ara every single individual online like front of me probably it was maybe 30 people give and take and in service Canada you can do a lot of things you know like plate for your car help car driver license you do all these things so it’s just not people coming for driver license for other reason too I swear 99.9% was India. 99.9%. So I know the whole world is changing. There’s so many immigrant moving around and I believe that’s a very wrong decision because when I went to Canada, it was a whole different ball game. It wasn’t like this. Seriously, it wasn’t like that. You had an opportunity. You had to be a right person. Now everybody’s a crime in Canada. People shooting. We never had a gun. We never had a shooting. People used to leave the door open. But now the whole Canada is sucks. When you walking on the street, you don’t realize this is a Canada. This is the country that I grew up most of my life. I left back home Iran when I was a kid. All my memory, everything it was in Canada. But now last time when I went there it was changing changing really like it was sad to me that what happened to this country. I believe this is happening so many places. I talked to in the airport when I was flying next to the couple from Australia and they say Australia is turning to the [ __ ] hole like people from United States. I have a lot of friends for past three years that I’m traveling people sick of us. I have a lot of friends that traveling from Germany. Everybody says Germany is a [ __ ] hole. So you see the whole world is changing. Southeast Asia is like that too. So that’s normal. But if you think you came to Bali three years ago, four years ago, and you had a good time and you want to come back, oh, it’s going to be a culture shock, my friend. It’s going to be a culture shock. If you are one of those individual that traveling in Thailand and you heard oh or you had that experience I’m sure you had everybody says that people is smiling nice people friendly people helpful people hell no people they don’t want to talk to tourists there’s a war between local people to the t with the tourist I truly saw that people are extremely lazy like tuk tuk driver is like Yes, you ask questions. Sir, are you going there looking at you? No. You say, “Okay, I’ll wait. Wait for other people to come because I know you know this tuk tuk for sometimes take you from A to B. So you wait. You sit there. They want to fill up the tuk tuk.” They’re looking at you. You want to take it alone? Say, “No, sir. Why would I do that? I don’t have time. I have time. I can’t wait. 500 B. 500 B. The only time that they want to talk to you, they want to give you some [ __ ] ridiculous price that is just mindblowing. This is for example in somewhere like Puket or Paya. If you go to the island, I used to love Kamo Coupen. These places are full of a scam overpriced to hell. Hell because lot of dirty money, lot of extra money coming to these places that local getting schmuck. You know, local want to grab more money, more money, lazy. The taxi driver like sometimes is mind-blowing to me. Most of the taxi driver standing somewhere, you know, there’s 10 of them. They don’t want to work. They don’t want to drive you but just waiting to scam somebody, you know. It’s just like to me it was really strange because for example if you grew up in Canada like people find a way to compete with somebody else like if you have a business you trying to compete with another business right way. I’m not saying bad competition, but people working harder, reducing their price, the quality of service going up, they doing something much much better and better and better to beat other businesses. So this is a right comp right competition you know like you’re trying to harder you’re giving better service you’re reducing your price as much as you could to win people but no no no no in Southeast Asia it’s not like that people getting more lazy just they want free money so this is what I find so and and other things for example Cambodia I went to Cambodia like it is good to see but there is not much to do in Cambodia. It’s just like not really developed. For example, CMRIP to me is much much better than capital because it was more safer. Um but overall in Cambodia there’s not much to do guys like few temple you go you see and done. There’s nothing else. But in CMRIP I had a really good experience guys. People are friendly. But although there’s a scam going on everywhere, I remember I was drinking one beer front of supermarket and one girl from Netherland, she came and she was sitting next to me and it was a big I guess hostel in front of the uh supermarket. So I saw she open up the beer, can of beer and she was looking behind that part that you remove it and she got the free beer. because it was some sort of advertising from that, you know, that uh beer company that when you opening up the can, it was giving you some sort of reward. And I believe the reward was only free beer or some kind of discount, you know, that’s all. And she said to me, “Oh, did you know that?” I said, “No, no, no, no. It seems to me she got the free beer.” And she said, “Well, take a look at yours. Take a look at Rose.” And I didn’t know that. And then I looked at mine, nothing. So, and I was buying the same beer because I find I don’t remember what was it, but I was buying the same thing because I heard that’s the best one. So, I was opening sometime I was getting lucky, you know, free beer or the discount. Nobody was accepting it. You see, like in Cambodia, nobody. You You used to go to the supermarket, they say, “No, we don’t accept it.” I said well this is the way like I who’s going to accept this because I bought it from here and most of the people they don’t want to accept it. So like that was very strange to me because you know like you you got the free beer or some sort of discount but they don’t want to accept it. That’s the only negative things that I saw in Cambodia but I didn’t spend too much time in Cambodia but I’m sure there’s more scam and more things that you can go through. uh safety in CMRIP it wasn’t bad. I didn’t come across anything but in the capital yes I believe I saw a lot of shotgun lot of store with the m with the guns and everything else. Now let’s move to the Philippines. Philippines is unsafe place completely unsafe and absolutely ignorant people I believe because they speak English and they act like you know first of all they are very racist. I find out Filipinos are very racist because I had a really good experience with Filipinos in in Canada because most of them hardworking and everything but at the time I was dating one pharmacist and my girlfriend was a pharmacist that time and she was working with some of the assistant that from Philippines and it was seems to me another pharmacist from another company that she had to do lot transaction. It was a retirement house and I guess that retirement house had a pharmacist that she was working full-time there and she was Filipino and she had to deal with my girlfriend from another company. She always complaining about Filipinos. Like I was thinking really like why? Because they’re very nice, very kind, very hardworking, you know, they not complaining. And she always complained. My girlfriend always and she was from Caribbean. So she always was complaining. She was saying no no no no no. They are very very bad people. They are very very I was thinking like come on like seriously. But when I went to Philippine I find out they are extremely racist. They are very ignorant and they are really really hate somehow westerners like they are very aggressive. I come across really aggression there. So, and unsafe. Philippines is completely unsafe and absolutely overpriced. Like if you go to Philippine is just a mindblowing. First of all, I said that before. Some people says, “No, there’s a Filipino food.” I couldn’t find any Filipino food. You I don’t know what is the Filipino food is. I didn’t see any restaurant that says local Filipino food. Like you can go for example in here in Thailand, in Vietnam, in Cambodia, you go, you find a local food. But in in in Philippine, I couldn’t see nothing. Yes. You see some [ __ ] holes that selling on the street and eating it. Yeah, I want to eat that. You want to eat that? I sell some of those places, you know, but that’s not the restaurant. That’s just the local people. But people eating chicken and rice, fried chicken and just a bland rice. Most of the restaurant, McDonald’s, I know pizza, you know, the things that you see in Western countries is there. So it’s just like what is this? There is anything called Filipino food, Filipino cuisine. I couldn’t find it. I couldn’t. I find all kind of food, but I couldn’t find Filipinos. It’s not safe. Absolutely not safe. If you go to Philippines, a culture shop, any supermarket, any cafe, any hotel, uh in Manila, you see somebody with the shot with the gun, you go to the bank to use your car to withdraw money, there’s two guys with the shotgun, you know, shotgun. It’s just not joking around. So, it’s not safe. I didn’t like it. I find it very ignorant. I find it very expensive. And be honest with you, sometimes I feel to have KFC. Sometimes I feel to have McDonald’s. Sometimes I feel to have a Domino’s pizza. But when you go into the country and you’re looking at everything and said, “What the [ __ ] is going on here?” All fast food. They just like to me it was like I couldn’t like I was sick of eating KFC or chicken and rice. There’s nothing else. Fried chicken and rice. That’s it. Nothing else. And overpriced and ignorant. Let me tell you guys, I went to Brockhai. This was one of my experienc I book under two two two individual. I don’t choose one room one individual. I choose one room two. Although I travel alone but always I have two because sometimes if you want to bring somebody and if they look at it one they want to charge you extra. And another secret is if you book one room under two sometimes the price is lower. So always remember that one room two regardless if you are alone choose two people price is lower because that’s a standard default pick default program on all the booking site. So usually when you changing it means you changing the whole price. So is affecting you negative way because if you choose one room one individual the price goes up. One room two individual always better. So what happened was yeah I went to Brockai. So the guy says uh we don’t have a king room or whatever and they speak English they ignorant act like like yeah like who you are you know like and he give me a room twin bed and I said okay no problem who cares. So the next day the cleaning staff when they came they removed the cover and the and the pillow from another bed. So one bed had a uh what is that? The pillow and the cover but the next one they remove it. So what you’re going to see is in the Philippine nightmare even in Brock like it was a airport that it was unbelievable. I didn’t know if if this airport guys so teeny tiny that it just like doesn’t look like a airport. People was waiting outside because there’s no enough space to wait inside the uh airport. So this is one of the most good beautiful um airport in Philippine Brockhai. If you see that airport is a culture shock with the bunch of restaurant in front of it and I saw all these restaurants are full. So I was thinking like what is happening here and then when I went inside I find out there’s no space to wait. So people is staying outside waiting there for flight to go inside. So, and just this much of a space is just good for tra good good to walk good to get the hotel but the rest of the area of Braa is just a nightmare unsafe nightmare and people are extremely rude like if the like I was walking one point you know it was raining so this truck was coming and passing by and throwing all these street water at you. So they don’t slow down. They don’t have no respect for nothing. So Philippines was like one of those nightmare for me that I I said before I will never ever visit back. I bought the slice of pizza. Slice of pizza in the mall. I believe in Canada. I went recently. I saw a lot of people complaining about cost of living but the price it was to me is pretty much same. Even some of them stuff went down except restaurant prices was ridiculously high. But I believe a slice of pizza in Canada now you can buy it for four or five bucks. But in uh Manila in some mall I had a slice of pizza that was a [ __ ] I believe I paid seven bucks. So you understand what I’m saying guys? The price is just like a US dollar but the quality and everything is just not for me anymore. I won’t go to Philippines. So that’s my opinion. And most of the girls there too like if you are in Manila or whatever, everybody says the Filipino girls are friendly and you have more chance. I had one she was in the beginning good but after a few days like she was demanding let’s go to this bar, let’s go to that bar and this is the bar that you go in out two 300 bucks. And I find out yeah in the beginning she was good but after that the demand is changed. Okay she wasn’t prosperous. She came to Manila to get the visa to go to Germany to work and she was very young. She was I guess 21 years old. But after a few days I find out you know she has a like really special demand of you know to this bar and that bar and this restaurant that restaurant so on and so forth. So pretty much relationship is just you have to be very lucky to find the right individual here. It’s just like otherwise they treat you like a ATM machine already. I break down the point that I have. You are in good relationship. You spend more money. You feel good because you are in relationship. You know you do one thing and your date does one thing for you too. But this is looking at you as a ATM machine. That’s not for me. Maybe for some of you guys, you know, you don’t mind this is the way that your thing is supposed to be. Okay, good. Not for me. To me, this is like a prostitution. Uh there’s no difference, you know, like you go to prostitute, prostitute says, “Give me this much money.” In this case, doing the same thing, but it’s just different ways. It ends up same [ __ ] So, it is not for me. So, maybe for some of you guys is okay, but not for me. So that’s why I don’t usually you know even I like sometimes I interview people when I match in Bumble or Tender for like 20 30 minutes you know like from the thousand m match maybe I’ll go out with one of them because that’s who I am. I don’t mind to take somebody in good restaurant but if I have that feelings that this individual doing this for a business you know I’m done you know I cannot handle that it is not my personality it just not doesn’t work for me anyways guys so this is a Philippine what else Malaysia Malaysia is a Muslim country guys I’ve been to Malaysia called Lampur and I went to uh Lancavi Island so Lancavi Island is nice be honest with nice beach. But in the evening, most of them local people were Muslim, you know, like I saw a lot of European girls with the bikini, but you know, you see like 10 girls with the bikini and the rest of the people are really Muslim, you know, covered top to bottom and sitting at the beach. So it just like to me it was nice to see, but am I going to go back there? Absolutely nothing. No. No. And call Lumpur. Okay, nice. you know, good for shopping like if you want to go to the mall and find a nice shopping like a Thailand, you know, big malls and whatever, there’s a lot of them in Koala Lumpur. But one thing that I find in Malaysia, people not friendly whatsoever. Absolutely whatsoever. So it just like you cannot seriously like see somebody smiling at you or nothing. Absolutely nothing. like it is very unfriendly city to me. Even I come across very young guy in the subway in metro. We call it subway in Canada but I believe everywhere they call it metro. So I come across one Persian guy, Iranian guy. He was a very young guy. He was going to a school there university. He was like 21 22. So I was asking for an address. He said are you Iranian? I said yes. Oh me too. I’m living here. I’m going to a school and yada yada yada. So I said, “How was your experience?” He said, “I cannot wait to finish my school and leave. This is one of the worst country that I ever been and whatever.” He wasn’t happy whatsoever. And I felt that, you know, it’s nice, nice building, nice everything, but it’s just unfriendly, very unfriendly country. I haven’t been to Singapore because it’s overpriced. I won’t go to Singapore. U Korea, South Korea. I got really bad feelings about South Korea because I see first of all I come across a lot of people from South Korea in Canada. I believe South Korean are extremely ignorant and racist. That’s what I saw about them. And they are very racist about other culture and religion. I’m not religious whatsoever that somebody says you know Muslim people like this this I don’t care. I don’t really care. I’m not religion. So nobody cannot hurt me because I born Muslim or whatever. Absolutely not. Because I’m not religion. But I find it South Korean people are very racist in that aspect. And I find that here they are very ignorant. So I come across a lot of them. I saw the same attitude in Canada here too. So I don’t I’m not interested to go to South Korea. But probably I’m going to try to see Japan. Uh because you know everybody talking about Japan. So far I didn’t go to Japan because of the cost of everything. But maybe I can manage to stay for one or two weeks you know somewhere. Um I really want to see Japan. But this is the whole my experience about Southeast Asia guys. So there is not much option left in Southeast Asia pretty much. Maybe for some of the people that staying in Thailand long term, paying very low amount of money for rent may be enjoyable for them, but for tourists, staying in Thailand is just a nightmare. Seriously, nightmare because if you’re living in Thailand and you know um probably different than being a tourist in Thailand. So, I was thinking to share my experience. This is a very long video 47 minutes but this is my experience for past three years. One thing that I got to tell you guys do not believe the hype do not go anywhere with the hype. Hype is people that you know that’s a people that coming and change like influencers that some of the country paying for it. For example, in Turkey now, Turkish government pays lot of big YouTuber in influencer to go back to Turkey and show the food and everything else. But to me, Turkey is one of the worst country on earth, most expensive country on earth, and you’re going to get scammed from the moment that you arrive until the day that you leave. You’re going to get scammed. your ste your stuff is gonna they’re going to steal your stuff in the hotel on the street people losing their passport because these people stealing western countries passport and then changing the picture and sending people illegally out so in Turkey million things going to happen to you one of the worst place that you can go but now I see a lot of YouTubers lot of influencers going to Turkey because nobody wants to go to Turkey but these people getting paid from the government of Turkey to advertise. So don’t believe the hype. Seriously, uh probably there’s really limited places left in on Earth that you can really travel and enjoy. Maybe I couldn’t find it yet, but there is probably somewhere out there that is underrated, but just you have to search and find it. I was thinking to go in South America, but just a safety issue. I really don’t want to go through that. Especially holding the camera there is just not the right things to do. So is not going to work for me because I’m a so-called YouTuber. So I want to hold my camera freely and go and film in South America. Probably they’re going to you know do something to you. It’s just not safe. So for that reason there’s only limited option left pretty much on earth really limited. The whole world is just changing but it’s not changing right way. is just changing bad ways. So, I hope you guys like this video is very long, but you know, I’m just sharing my experience. Cheers and see you guys in the next video, guys. Bye-bye.

✈️ Thinking about traveling to Southeast Asia in 2025?
In this video, I share my honest opinion and personal travel experience in Bali, Thailand, and Vietnam, including the pros and cons of visiting each place next year.
From rising prices and changing visa rules to the best places to visit and avoid — this is a real, unfiltered look at what Southeast Asia is like in 2025.

Whether you’re a backpacker, digital nomad, or planning a short vacation, this video will help you decide if it’s still worth traveling to Southeast Asia in 2025.

🌏 Covered in this video:
Bali in 2025: Is it too crowded or still paradise?
Thailand travel tips for 2025
Why Vietnam might surprise you
Budget vs. luxury travel updates
Visa changes and safety tips
Where to go, what to avoid, and what’s changed
👍 Don’t forget to LIKE, COMMENT, and SUBSCRIBE for more real travel content across Southeast Asia and beyond.
📍 Check out my second channel: Hamid Wanders for deeper travel stories and local insights!
❤️ Thank you for your support, supermannnn!
#southeastasia2025 #bali2025 #thailand2025 #vietnam2025 #travelguide2025 #honesttravelreview #hamidtravels #digitalnomadlife #southeastasiatravel