So, what do you think? Do you prefer the old or new Maya Bay experience? Just a quick update from me, we are still in Thailand and more videos are coming (even if I am very slow at editing)! You can get more frequent updates from our travels over on Instagram: instagram.com/oneshotryan

So happy to see all of the changes Thailand has made to protect this beautiful place. Looks as though it also makes for a much better visitor experience. I'm with you. I probably would have not visited Maya Bay in the past due to the crowds and chaos. Now, as we get ready to start our travels in Southeast Asia in a month, we look forward to visiting this beautiful place. Thanks so much for sharing.

Thank you so much for covering MAYA BAY restoration. 11:34 My god!! You are the only KZfaqr who capture THE MAGNIFICENCE OF PHI PHI LAY ROCK MOUNTAINS!!

Fan from Thailand: thank you for a very good explanation about the island.

It looks amazing. Such a difficult balance to on one hand, protect this part of paradise but then to enable us mere humans to see it's wonder. It looks like Thailand have achieved the impossible. There is no better feeling than firing up KZfaq and find a new One Shot Adventures video waiting for us! Time to crack open a Leo and enjoy. You never let us down. Best wishes Neil & Sarah

I have watched so many Thailand's vlog BUT your vlog is one of the best. I'm not native english but I can understand you clearly. You also include many insightful which is impressive and not many of vlogger do that. Keep doing good vid. Cheers

I am planning to travel to Thailand.Very nice.like a paradise

I have watched many videos about Maya Bay. Those videos may be common to me as a Thai person. But I still watched this video till the end. It's simple but excellent. 👍 Thank you

This is almost a documentary, Awesome! Thanks for sharing your experience. As a Thai person, I am proud that this place is known all over the world. But sadly, heavy tourism destroys nature. But that's still incomparable to what the film crew used to destroy this place. They dig up beaches, move corals, cut down native trees and replace them with alien trees. Just to make the background look good on the screen without permission from the Thai authorities. 22 years of litigation, Twenty Century Fox is currently not paying any damages.

Almost a documentary. That was awesome. I treated myself to a double dip catch up moment on your channel and wow, that was awesome. You are an awesome editor and narrator. Thank you. 👍 💖 🙏 🇳🇿 🙋‍♀️ 🇳🇱

Thank you for explaining the reference to the beach movie I was lucky enough to go to that beach in the year 2000 when there wasn’t so many people going there

Loved the video, brough me back to the pre covid time. Gosh it was good HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! anyways. Keep up the amazing work...

Great vlog! thank you so much. 👍

Oh what memories, thanks for the virtual revisit 🤩🙏🏼

Thailand is the paradise and the second home for all visitor !!!

Great to see you back! Great vlog!

Nui Cove on Koh Phi pHi is the Beach. We found it while kayaking.

I love your video. Very informative and cinematic.

Love your video. It s like a short documentary. I am glad that u had great time in Thailand.

Thanks guys for sharing your experience and your feelings with this great video! Glad to see that the paradise has been restored. Look forward to returning after 10 years from my last visit!

Happy to see the place recovering! I did my part by not going there at all on my 5 trips to Thailand in the 2000's. Maybe it's because I read the book and didn't see the movie. The book was a great vacation read, I happened to stay in a hotel room quite like his my first time in Bangkok!!! Anyways Happy Travels! Love your commentary!

Superb video Ryan! xx

Another great video Ryan 😊 keep it up 💪😊

Beautiful video. Teaching is in your blood. Thanks 4 sharing. Cheers from Berkeley CA.😎

I love your video. Good job Ryan.

I love your video. Very informative and cinematic. I had goosebump when you took the shot of high cliff on Phi Phi Leh and the background song was just perfect to go with that. I went there in Dec and Maya Bay was still closed. Our tour guide said Maya Bay never stopped to stun him even though he has set foot on the beach countless time. His statement made me curious to experience it by myself and i will go back there again. This time to experience the beauty of it with my own eyes.

Watching this channel for first time...really enjoy your trip!! 😃👍

Best video I have seen of phi phi islands, good to see that they have stopped all those boats going in there. We were wondering where you had gone 🤣 more to life than vlogs, enjoy your time while you can. Thanks for update.

Great video and you explained perfectly key aspects to consider before going to phi phi. I went to Maya bay today and it is an stunning place. It’s good to see they have take measures to protect it

Explain clearly, good job.

Woooow!! What a great place to stay!! Absolutely paradise!

Awesome

Maya Bay looks so beautiful!!

Amazing, so good to see the beach is so protected. I still have it on my bucket list. Maybe some day, when the images from the movie are old and so am i. I dont know. But thanks for this video,

Hi Ryan & Emma, That brings back memories, I visited back in 2008 and hired a long tail boat for the day, we swam/snorkelled in three or more ‘secret’ lagoons and then anchored in Maya Bay. Very few boats and people I’m happy to say, a great experience ‼️. Looking forward to further ‘One Shot’ adventures. Best to you both, Anthony 🙏🏻🙏🏻.

Went there yesterday. But sky was cloudy, so I could not enjoy the best of it. But it's still so beautiful.

I went to Maya Bay in early 2006 and we had to swim in to the beach or kayak so there were no speedboats or crowds like in the pictures you shared which led to the closure. Good they closed it and I hope they will control the daily amount of visitors. /Malin

Welcome back to Thailand 😊👍

Omg i was tbere in 1995.. before the movie that changed everything ..butbisbtill looks great..a lot more ppl :-)

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You are so lucky you come in a good time , today July 2022 Maya is so crowded

Great one as usual Ryan, love the editing, where are you currently ?, I’m in Thailand too right now

To be honest, I want Maya Bay to be like this forever - don't let anyone swim there otherwise it will be ruined again. I went there many times and had to go about 7.30am every time before the shutdown happened a few years ago and always left after 9.00am before it got so chaotic

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It's a very nice place. 😀

The new rules are wonderful. We can enjoy the beautiful scenery and wildlife can recover and hopefully thrive

Cool video bro! My girl and I took a trip to Maya Bay around the same time you guys did and we were blown away by how pristine everything is now. I did a video on it a few months back if you'd like to check it out. Keep up the cinematic videos, new fan here!

By accident watching this from the same hotel you staid. Hope you snorkeled to shark point as well, because that was right opposite from your hotel ;)

Ha, you’re right, that area reminded me a little bit of El Nido.

Definitely want to visit Thailand 🇹🇭 soon. Been to El Nido in the Philippines 🇵🇭 It is a shame that unlike in El Nido, Philippines, people aren't allowed to kyak into Maya Bay. And the beautiful iconic Longtail Boats once seen in Maya Bay parked up at the beach are no longer a sight to be seen in Maya Bay. But I understand the reasons why.

Looks like they've done a great job of protecting Maya Bay. Wonder whether they should put a cap on the number of boats able to visit each day though. They are no doubt still adding to the pollution of the area.

I went in 2017 and although it was nice, the crowds of people did ruin the experience, I was able to swim in the bay which was awesome. Returned in 2022 and it was back to being packed but not as bad. Can't swim in the bay anymore either

Fortunately I visited that beach long before it became a touristy destination and ultimately shut down. There must have been like ten people there when I visited.

RVs are very comfortable to live in once you get one you'll be rent free

Thais love Maya bay so much that we trade off all the tourist money. Everybody’s in tears when we first saw a group of baby white sharks swim in the maya bay. That’s when we knew it’s worth it! 😇😊

not being able to swim is a small price to pay for hopefully a full recovery of this paradise. All the other rules actually give a better experience for tourists. Sure I would love to sit on the beach all day but so do thousands of others and then it's not so fun anymore. So limiting to only 1 hours visit makes it not so crowdy hopefully. So happy they got rid of the boats ruining the whole view!!

When was this footage taken? Why is the water greenish instead of blue?

Visited in 2015 and we were only allowed to kayak or swim into maya bay. At the time there werent a lot of visitors. We played football on the beach and did some swimming

are you able to visit at night?

let's go on vacation to Indonesia, there are many tourist attractions in each region. each region has a culture and tradition that is different from other regions from different regional languages ​​and foods that are unique to the region. On vacation to Indonesia, don't forget to eat Indonesian food, but remember to be careful, Indonesian food tastes spicy. holidays to Indonesia exist; Nusa Dua and Nusa Penida in Bali Borobudur temple in Central Java Prambanan temple in Jogja Thousand Islands and Angel Island in Jakarta the peak of bogor with views of the tea garden and the Indonesian safari park in bogor, west java, close to jakarta Riau-Kepri and Batam are close to Singapore and have the same culture as Singapore and Malaysia, namely Malay culture and traditions. Raja Ampat in Papua the island of komodo live ancient animals that still exist, namely the large lizard Nama'y komodo, Lombok, Gili Trawangan, Lake Kelimutu, Mount Rinjani in NTT Tangkuban Parahu Mountain, White Crater and Saung Angklung, a musical instrument made of bamboo in Bandung Ijen Crater and Mount Bromo in East Java Sianok canyon in West Sumatra tana toraja in South Sulawesi Lake Toba and Bunaken Marine Park in North Sulawesi Wakatobi in Southeast Sulawesi and there is another that is Derawan Island, Maratua Island, Karimunjawa, Weh Island, Sumba, Jomblang Cave... ..

What you need to do is purchase an rv class a or b and work and save your money as much as you can and plan on going to the best country's in the world that have cheap hotels cheap food cheap transportation to get you around the city so that way you can keep your channel going making videos every week.

Conservation of the sea makes baby sharks come back Maya​ bay to eat again.

You had to swim across. Why didn't you swim the 2 km to get to The Beach?

It is true that humans are the reason things get destroyed

Cette plage est préservée par le gouvernement Thaïlandais lors du tournage ils ont demandés une autorisation d'après ce que je sais elle ouverte à une période de l'année aux touristes 😙

THE BIG CHUNKY CHARLIE...

Have you been to the Philippines?

I feel like there are tons of islands in the Philippines that will blow Maya Bay away. Matinloc Island is one example.

Take that mask off home dude! Nice vid.

The saturation. Don't need it.

Pronounced my-ya-bay lol not May -ya bay cmon your accent fix it

Tourist destination...what a shame....

Just visited the beach yesterday. It’s strictly prohibited to swim there and stay for more than one hour.

Copied the philippines 🤣