Paradise in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh (World's Longest Beach) 🇧🇩 — Transcript

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1. 0:00hello from Cox's Bazaar Bangladesh the
2. 0:04longest natural sea beach in the
3. 0:09world I'm staying here at mermaid Beach
4. 0:15Resort where I was 6 years
5. 0:19ago it has changed a bit since then as
6. 0:24has Cox's bizaar a lot of development
7. 0:27has happened since 200 18 I'm going to
8. 0:31spend the late afternoon and early
9. 0:33evening here walking along the beach and
10. 0:36going for a swim as the sun sets so this
11. 0:40here is my beach
12. 0:43hut outside
13. 0:46shower and coconut
14. 0:51trees and if we go into the
15. 0:54room large comfy and soft double bed
16. 0:59fridged
17. 1:01TV
18. 1:04the
19. 1:08toilet
20. 1:10bath and of
21. 1:13course the best
22. 1:17part stepping
23. 1:19out to the back and a pool in front of
24. 1:24my room connecting to the other rooms
25. 1:28and views of
26. 1:30the beach just a Stones
27. 1:32throwaway the longest beach in the
28. 1:37world and the
29. 1:41gentle swaying of the
30. 1:43trees a very laidback atmosphere so if
31. 1:47you're interested in staying in a beach
32. 1:50hut like this then the link for mermaid
33. 1:53Beach Resort is in the video description
34. 1:57there are a variety of rooms here at the
35. 1:59resort one of the highlights being the
36. 2:01sleeping boat room which When the tide
37. 2:06is much closer to the resort later in
38. 2:10the year it feels like you're sleeping
39. 2:13on a boat as the name goes everything in
40. 2:16the resort is made of recycled
41. 2:22material there are all sorts of creative
42. 2:26ways that things have been built here
43. 2:29where whether it's
44. 2:31bamboo
45. 2:32or old
46. 2:36rusted tin
47. 2:42cans wood from abandoned ships in
48. 2:46Chittagong and along the coast
49. 2:49of Bangladesh on the Bay of
50. 2:53Bengal
51. 2:56hello and we're approaching the
52. 2:59restaurant over
53. 3:02here which has a lot of great food that
54. 3:05I've been lucky enough to try since
55. 3:07arriving this is where breakfast is
56. 3:15served the longest swimming pool in
57. 3:19Cox's Bazaar 300 M juice bar where you
58. 3:24can chill and relax so stepping out
59. 3:28from the resort behind me onto the
60. 3:31longest uninterrupted seab beach in the
61. 3:34world 120 km or
62. 3:3775
63. 3:39miles and the tide is very far out after
64. 3:43this section of water the real tide is
65. 3:48in the distance my GoPro probably
66. 3:50doesn't even show it that
67. 3:53much I have M by with
68. 3:56me how are you finding it here yeah yeah
69. 4:00enjoying both of us having some relaxing
70. 4:03time together and the resort was quite
71. 4:06nice
72. 4:07also they're keeping us good and giving
73. 4:11priority to everything what we
74. 4:16need
75. 4:18hello hello hello football game on the
76. 4:20beach here yes
77. 4:25yes just heading to check out some of
78. 4:28these boats what do you call them in
79. 4:31Bangladesh they're not Dows here they're
80. 4:33called champan or the moonbo mhm and
81. 4:38they're usually traditionally used by
82. 4:40fishermen yeah they traditionally used
83. 4:42by fishermen they can be used for
84. 4:44different cases salam
85. 4:47alaikum so here is a champan up close CH
86. 4:52champan yes yes yeah your country
87. 4:58England okay
88. 5:00yeah
89. 5:06yeah it is stuck here I guess
90. 5:09until the tide
91. 5:11comes as are the others on the beach
92. 5:15further up with more groups of kids
93. 5:18playing
94. 5:21football the sun almost disappearing
95. 5:24now Beneath The Horizon like a big red
96. 5:28disc
97. 5:30those men there locals just going
98. 5:34for a
99. 5:36stroll at the sunset
100. 5:39hour tomorrow we will head further up
101. 5:42the beach and check out some different
102. 5:44areas away from the resort which is just
103. 5:48over there and also head into Cox's
104. 5:51Bazaar town
105. 5:58too
106. 6:08welcome back it is now the next day and
107. 6:11we have made our way up the coastline to
108. 6:14the center of Cox's bizaar Town we're
109. 6:17going to check out the vibe and head to
110. 6:20the main Beach public beach there are
111. 6:23actually a
112. 6:25few I think
113. 6:27three but we'll go to the most one
114. 6:32[Music]
115. 6:39here souvenir shops selling clothes
116. 6:42sandals swimming shorts and
117. 6:48bags where many locals
118. 6:50come for a break to be able to swim to
119. 6:54go on
120. 6:55holiday mosque there and this is the
121. 6:59entrance to the
122. 7:05beach snacks sweets kind of a mix of
123. 7:08many things stepping on here to Shaga
124. 7:13Beach
125. 7:16and I am amazed at how many people
126. 7:19you'll find along the coastline it's
127. 7:22right in the middle of the day very hot
128. 7:24at the moment but that doesn't stop
129. 7:27people here they're not really afraid of
130. 7:29the
131. 7:30Sun different vendors and
132. 7:37things guava so mermaid Beach Resort is
133. 7:40that way about 20 minutes in a rick
134. 7:43Shore
135. 7:47South it's nice and Breezy the waves are
136. 7:50looking good lots of locals enjoying
137. 7:56[Music]
138. 7:58themselves
139. 8:03it's kind of like a festival type of
140. 8:06atmosphere this man selling
141. 8:11bananas lots of vendors passing by with
142. 8:14different
143. 8:17things and jet skis for hire lots of
144. 8:21people riding them in the distance
145. 8:25there although it is very sunny and a
146. 8:28hot time of day
147. 8:30and there are lots of people swimming
148. 8:31most people
149. 8:33are still wearing t-shirts and tops and
150. 8:37long shorts
151. 8:42even which is more of a cultural thing
152. 8:46than anything
153. 8:55else so regardless of where you're
154. 8:57staying whether it is in mermaid
155. 9:00another Resort in Co Bazar or even in
156. 9:03the town checking out this beach or one
157. 9:07of the main beaches next to the center
158. 9:10of Fox's Bazaar is worth it just to
159. 9:14people watch and get the idea of what
160. 9:17the real beach experience is like for
161. 9:20many locals here in Bangladesh it's not
162. 9:24like mermaid Resort this is where the
163. 9:27masses come to enjoy their time and ser
164. 9:29your interested just to get a glimpse of
165. 9:30that or even go for a swim yourself on
166. 9:34this very
167. 9:35large open part of the beach then you
168. 9:38can but just bear in mind that you
169. 9:40shouldn't really wear a bikini if you're
170. 9:42a woman or be too exposed if you're a
171. 9:44man
172. 9:51[Music]
173. 9:58either
174. 10:18so a rickshaw Journey from Cox's bizaar
175. 10:21town on the main public beach there and
176. 10:25we are by this wooded area that I also
177. 10:29visited 6 years
178. 10:31ago a large span of open space here with
179. 10:35less people showing the natural beauty
180. 10:37of Cox's Bazaar once
181. 10:40again there are some areas here to
182. 10:44go
183. 10:48paragliding immediately it gets quite
184. 10:53hilly and Myanmar is over that way one
185. 10:57thing I probably should touch upon
186. 11:00is the rohinga refugee crisis because
187. 11:03that's something that internationally
188. 11:06Cox's bizar became more known for in the
189. 11:10last decade one of the largest refugee
190. 11:12camps in the world and many of the
191. 11:14refugees I believe are on an island now
192. 11:18and there's been quite a lot of tension
193. 11:19between Bangladesh and Myanmar in recent
194. 11:23years the Myanmar government are not
195. 11:25receiving any of the ringas they're not
196. 11:28really well welcome there anymore and
197. 11:31the bangladeshis are struggling to know
198. 11:34what to do with them without any
199. 11:36international support it's difficult to
200. 11:38relocate those vast numbers of people
201. 11:42it's a bit of an issue that seems to
202. 11:43have been kind of a stalemate for a
203. 11:46while a
204. 11:47non-starter bigger forces in the world
205. 11:51are not intervening on this issue and so
206. 11:54it's left to NGS to try and pick up the
207. 11:57pieces for the moment and keep keep the
208. 12:00people fed give them somewhere to live
209. 12:02and the money has not been coming in as
210. 12:05much as it was a few years ago because
211. 12:08of other conflicts and things around the
212. 12:10world such as Gaza and Ukraine and in
213. 12:13the Congo and of course the list goes on
214. 12:16but that doesn't mean the rindra crisis
215. 12:18has gone away in fact it is still here
216. 12:20and something I thought I should mention
217. 12:22however it's safe to visit Cox's bizar
218. 12:24you'll still see lots of people coming
219. 12:26on their holidays locals and some
220. 12:28International tourist too staying at the
221. 12:31resorts so you can still come here it's
222. 12:34still
223. 12:35[Music]
224. 12:43safe so now back here at mermaid Beach
225. 12:46Resort and look at this view in front of
226. 12:48me
227. 12:50here the boat and the sunset right
228. 12:57there this is the scene
229. 13:00the tide far out now further down the
230. 13:03beach
231. 13:09here in
232. 13:11Paradise here are the other rooms as I
233. 13:13said before connected
234. 13:15to the private
235. 13:18pool the nice cold water here and this
236. 13:22may well be an appropriate place to
237. 13:25finish this
238. 13:27video and the link for mermaid Beach
239. 13:30Resort is in the video description if
240. 13:33you're interested in staying here for a
241. 13:35couple of days to cap off your
242. 13:38Bangladesh trip if you
243. 13:40make a visit here
244. 13:44[Music]
245. 13:56[Music]
246. 13:58peace