I Crashed My Bike on Asia's WORST Road! 🇱🇦
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- It was time for a mega adventure in Laos, one of Asia's most unexplored countries. Myself and @baldandbankrupt began a long journey to a town where at one time was the most bombed place on earth! After renting a bike to cruise around I eventually ended up in a bad situation...🇱🇦
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Bald laughing at Ben turning in the damaged bike had me in tears. 😂
1) Ben always gets hurt on scooters 2) It’s Bald’s job to ridicule Ben.
Haha, I love it! Bald just being Bald 😂
You could say the roads are laosy
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@@danbirch7034 gold
They are reminding East Asians of their tragic past ?
Oh come now, Ben would have crashed anyway.
Hiyooooooooooo!
ATTENTION VIEWERS: It is VERY difficult for these guys to convey on video just how horrific some of these bus and train rides are. I know they try to tell us, but the reality of it just doesn't translate as well to what they themselves are enduring on a TEN HOUR trip in a tiny bus like this. The actual experience is FAR worse and far more difficult for them to endure than what you and I perceive watching from afar.
You are bang on
I am still watching the video.
I had a really bad accident. Finished with some broken bones in November last year, basically on those roads!
Dont leave your house then m8.
I’d rather the the same amount of time in jail.
I was once in Mozambique on back road going to Malawi, the trip was suppose to take 1 hour took 6 and when we got to the border… the border was closed. We had to sleep in rundown whore house between Mozambique and Malawi!!!! Oh the joy s of traveling!
I've seen a lot of vloggers on RUclips but Ben and Bald are the best I've seen. Just love their content. A pair of funny guys.
Thank you Rabbi Schmekelstein!
together they're a blast 😝😂😂😂👌🏽✨✨✨🌟🌟🌟🌟
Yes, especially when they travel together. They have good chemistry ⚛️.
@@a.j.infowars7582 I knew Alex Jewnes would agree.
Bald rockin a white RP long sleeve shirt is a sight to behold.
Ralph Lipschitz shirt you mean. He just discovered hes a joo like John Kerry (after he convinced Mass. he was Irish)
beside the logo is a deer or some other sort . 15:08
It's usually Ralph Lifschitz trust me.
Love the honesty of bike rental guy
For the love of God buy Bald a new shirt because that polo shirt has seen better days. The smell alone must be fantastic 🥴🥴
😂😂😂
It's his trademark shirt, probably got a dozen of identical ones
@@Mikke-G riiiiiiight.... 🥴
@@Mikke-GWe'll have to start calling him homer simpson
Bald wears the same Ralph Lauren button down as Kurt Caz wears the same Tommy Hilfiger button down
Wasn't expecting to be early in the comments as i open youtube now ill watch the video. Your videos with kat and bald is always good.
Nice to see honesty rewarded
Ben sounds like you're saying Bok Choy when you thank them!luv it!!!
I’ve just got out of the shower after watching the Indian video from 3 weeks ago
das crazy
You guys think you own the world , what type of shitty video is this ? reminding east Asia of their horrible past ?
Had an 11 hour minibus from Laos to Vietnam at the start of the year. I told myself never again. They are brutal. Glad you didn't put Catarina through it after that train journey! She deserves that 5 star break after all you put her through 🤣
Hi Ben, always love watching your videos :)
Lovely people. Very honest. Great to see👍
Love the content. The most real and different content on the platform ❤️
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Quite surprised you and Bald haven't attempted North Korea, since it is actually accessible
I think Bald went there once.
It's basically a guided tour if you go to North Korea? Not much new to show what people hasn't seen.
@@jopetti You can go some places without a guide. I want to see the real NK as I truly do not believe it's as bad as the media portrays. Granted it's probably awful
@@HaydnG266 U cant move freely there without your tourguides as a western tourist. I think chinese russian and indonesian can move more freely as far as I know. But in 2024 its even worse for brits like them. I wouldnt go there now with british passports even if they got a visa. Its already been seen by many vloggers. Nothing new. But hell yea I would love to see too but not possible.
@@HaydnG266 Its not real you will never meet a real North Korean citizen just fake ones and visit fake citys and beaches just for tourist.
You also not a loud travel alone!
I crashed a scooter in Thailand in December and tore 3 ligaments in my knee and had to get surgery. You got off good Backpacker Ben.
Was the crash your fault?
They really need to start renting quads instead.
@@Surv1ve_Thrive Totally my fault.
@@MickeyMishraQuads are insanely dangerous. If it flips on top of you, you can end up paralysed or dead. Happens all the time. I’d much rather hazard a normal scrambler or just a scooter
@@TanksYouVeryMuchpissed up?
Love the energy in this video! Can’t wait for the next one
Great, always love to see you guys together.😊
I know that these journeys are hell on earth but it's great content! Great video, as always.
You HAVE to do one of the cruises there, 3 day ones through the most beautiful scenery you’ll probably ever see in your life. Smallish boats but pure luxury and not even expensive. You get to visit loads of different villages and stuff on route and it’ll be romantic for you and bald!
Ben & Bald combination is always fantastic 😄
A word of caution - just don't be tapping those bombs. Many people in Laos have lost limbs over the past decades from the leftover bombs. And that's serious.
I wonder if bald has a different shirt? Does he constantly wash the one? Does he have multiple of the same shirt? Mystery indeed.
Really interesting! thx for making this video and showing us Laos and the facts! sorry about your leg. hope ur okay
solid guy, didn't try to scam you
Brave Ben bring us awesome content. Thanks!
Shout out from Essex Ben we love your videos ❤
Ben is always doing the right thing 💵💵
I just know Ben was loving it on that minibus journey listening to those bangers 😂
Ben a meteor is small, rocky object that burns up in the atmosphere. A meteorite is the same thing but survives the trip through the atmosphere and creates an impact crator depending on the size of the object
How does Bald walk around in that heavy, long-sleeved shirt in SE Asia… I live in Philippines and just couldn’t even imagine that… Good on him.
I had 7 hour trip on a local bus from Pokhara to Kathmandu, stuffed to the brim with people, some two to a seat, a dozen or more standing.
I could smell the brakes burning as wer were speeding down the narrow mountain road, and i legitimately thought i might die. Some of the locals were yelling at the driver too.
That was a nightmare but i survived
You shouldn't have visited those places in the first place.
@@theseeker7938 some random pixels on the internet dont get to decide what I should or shouldn't do 🫠
@@theseeker7938 some random pixels dont get to decide what I should or shouldn't do 🫠
@justinpyle3415 would you recommended go there?
@@patrick1992 yes. The himalayas are incredible
Loved this video Ben , brilliant , Adz Plymouth
Lol. Bald staring thru the window at the end. Looking like Michael Myers
I have done the bus ride from Vientiane to Sam Neua many times. It is hell. I nearly died many times. 24 hours of hell. Now i am older, and have more resources, I would never do it again. And it is LAO.. not Laos. The S is not pronounced
@@liamburns8554 Ok good to know LAO not Laos. 👍 😀
@liam
I was not aware of that (silent "S"). Thanks!
16:09 what we all came to see, but no crash recorded. You’ve been clickbaited! Wah wah wahhh
Great video.A bit over 20 years ago I rented a bike to go from Vientiane to luang prabang. Took a side trip to Pansvan to see the Jars. I recall someone saying that at that time they actually "mined" the casings and skins from downed planes to use as construction materials. Amazing people and lovely country.
Rock on Ben! From Ashland Oregon Usa
Ben,
Please stop over-paying locals. It's that type of behavior that encourages them to view foreigners as suckers who deserve to be scammed. I have had older Thais tell me that's what ruined tourism in Thailand.
I did the slow boat down the Mekong from Thailand down to Luang Prabang a few years ago. Gorgeous city.
That Ralph Lauren shirt with white Crocs is quite the look isn't it !! 😊
I can't watch your video until Sat. Will you still have it up?
Doesn't seem to have changed much - I did the bus trip to Phonsavan about 20 years - was an amazing ride with the bus climbing higher and higher and ending up above the clouds at one point. The only iffy things I remember were the conductor carrying a very old gun due to bandit attacks, the bloke in front who seemed to be marinating something foul in a bucket that was slopping out at regular intervals onto the floor and the within about half an hour someone had projectile vomited into the aisle - that aside it was a great journey.
Hopefully Ben is holding up well after that injury. Get well soon.
Atleast the music is sweet in this bus! Bald cracking up while the driver is driving insane and Ben just freaking out
I did 76 hours from Miami to San Diego in 2009, on a Greyhound😂
🙂💙👍Thank You Ben And Mr Bald looks like Katrina is Enjoying her self more than you Guys. 50 hours on a bus would be Brutal Wow. I hope it was not to crowded and had AC and a toilet.🙂💙👍Pease encourage Mr Bald to wear and fasten his Bike Helmet on for protection I would hate to see him have an Accident and get seriously hurt. 🙃🙂
I am a lousy passenger and basically hate being driven by anyone, so I couldn't hack travelling the way you guys do. In many countries bus and taxi drivers drive too fast and this stresses me out more than I can tell you. I actually tell taxi drivers that I have a heart condition and I will give them a big tip if they drive slowly!
Great to see you both again trekking through Asia. Are you both heading to Korea?
These guys remind me of Bert and Ernie from sesame street.
Bang on 🤣
Very interesting, those jars are very mysterous.
“Your balls rubbing against my back”😂💀
Jokes aside the town after the long ride seems like a developing town, the hospital building looked brand spanking new and as for the road, I see a 4x4 adventure drive. Awesome content with Bald😎🥂
I don't blame Bald for not eating that rice thing.
It's sticky rice usually sweetened with coconut milk steamed or cooked over BBq,unreal 😍
Great video Simon Wilson 😉
I don’t get it
Am still traumatized by India 😅
Yeh it’s challenging
What happened 😂
Damn bro you guys really hate India
Aren’t we all?
Iam still traumatized by seeing your mom onlyfans with bbc .
I found it brilliant how after all this time it still takes Bald 10 takes to get his words out 😂😂 Careful on the bikes Ben!
Thanks Ben great video. I will never go there after watching this. 😮 Stay safe.
Something really sad seeing the kids playing on the bombs
Well Done! Mate ! 👍 Jim and Harriet
The bridge repair reminds when we watched the locals filling potholes with a dozen bricks smashed them up and then buggered off…job done…loved Lao but the food was shocking but that was in 06.
The Daily Bald sent me here. Great video!
Thanks Ben glad your ok kind people bad roads beautiful country sad past subscriber Australia 🇦🇺 ❤❤
Love the happy hardcore music the van driver was rocking. I wonder if he ever heard of Anabolic Frolic
Those sticky rice in bamboo things are really nice
So good
Thanks for sharing always
hope the leg is better, mad video as usual, take care
Need the music playlist! bangers in the bus!
Me and my missus did the VIP bus ( should be sued under the trades description act!😂) to Ponsovan.
It got stuck in mud for hours in the mountains.
Thought the driver was going to wheel spin us off the cliff edge.
All in all took about 17 hours and arrived in the Pitch black town with no accommodation booked.
Thankfully found one light on in a window which turned out to be a guesthouse…result👍🏻
All worth it to visit the “Mysterious Plain of Jars”.
Great times
How awful for that country back then I never heard of this before we never get the true stories peace not war
I’m amazed how some of that scenery loooks a bit like the UK
Agreed! For a minute I thought I was back in Luton or Grimsby
Do you really mean our roads?😂
@@davethatcher4954 nah mate, the bit with the pots at the end. The scenery looked a bit like the south downs.
That's exactly how I felt in E-san in Thailand. Could have been in the Lancashire countryside.
I thought so too!
Just some toddlers playing on jagged metal bomb casings.
Nice one 👍Thanks for sharing and take care guys 😆🤣
Good thing you didn't have a major accident, and being a sport about paying the man for damages. Keep on truckin' !
That bridge was being fixed and looked exactly like that 10 years ago when I was there.
That bus ride looks like the break in torture you get when you first arrive at guantanamo bay
I've read horror stories of people in the rural areas of such countries having accidents and breaking their legs.
It's uh kinda like the scene in The Will Be Blood where he drags himself into town from the desert.
Stay safe out there.
Great EDM soundtrack to welcome in your impending bus plunge.
Health and safety not a chance anyway 😂
I don’t know if u visited phonsavan because my recomendation on the last video, but i am glad u went! Laos is awesome! And glad u ok, but hopefully u learned ur lesson of why u should not be riding a motorcycle with a camara on ur hand!!
I did a weeks biking tour from luang prabang earlier this year and their roads r shocking. Ive biked a lot in south east asia and they're easily the worst. Apart from the roads it was pretty good though and amazing scenery.
I'm sorry, but I saw Mr.Bald's video first. Now we know that Ben is not in an Asian gang. His leg gushing blood from the bike accident. I'm glad that you are tough! Thanks for the tour...
I did this journey on the government bus. It broke down and I spent the night sleeping on the road next to the bus.
Hey it beats those crappy trains you were riding on😂😂😂
Where is bold and bankfull ???
Brilliant comment!
He's back to lndia
@@CheeseNCookies-Me ya we welcoming again
Wow You n Bald are brave 😮
Welcome to Laos fellas! hahaha pissing myself watching the first 10 seconds in the van bombing those mountain turns. If you ever need anything out here let me know!
Ben saying “they’re fixing the bridge” and cuts to the Bulldozer repeatedly smashing the bridge lol
as someone from very rural america, huge fan of the rooster guy
Glad you are both okay.
Them minibuses are always in the news for driving off cliffs
I just heard your statement about 90% unexploded...ect @12:56. I think what you meant to say was 90% of the unexploded ordinance hasn't been found? I find it hard to believe that 90% of what was dropped didn't explode, if not that's a pretty high failure rate even for us. 😉😛 You didn't finish telling us the amount you paid him...for those wondering it was 500,000 Kip which is about $28 US.
You guys crack me up.
When you decide to tour Laos, welcome to adventure !. Coz without adventure, life is not cool.
You need some good noise canceling ear bids for the bus ride.
Looks like an exciting place to go.
Rough
22:37 too funny man! 😆 😄
Same in Thailand, and Vietnam...
Did I just see you sat outside joma bakery? I was driving past
Ben asking the driver to blast the music while the guy behind him is trying to sleep 😂