Thailand Unfiltered: Karl's Candid Stories of 36 Years and Counting 

Subscribe to Karl's channel: www.youtube.com/@karlsthailand First interview I did with Karl: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--YGwjjSGQpc.html

Karl is a great guy and I love his channel

Karl is a legend. I love his channel

Luv Carl's reminiscing. No hair and all.And the stories about 1980s Thailand. Bet Dublin must have some stories to tell.Remember it before the glitz.The dirty old town.

Karls a legend, why he doesnt get more hits is a mystery, proper old classic pics and insight

Just been on a road trip with Karl and my mate. He took us to some great places and told us some great tales. Top bloke is Karl

Love Karl's channel.

I can relate to the elephant sighting. I was sitting at Cheap Charlie's bar one evening, just down the road from the Federal Hotel, off Sukhuvit rd. It was May, 1988. I was into my fourth or fifth Mekong & coke when I felt a gentle but heavy tap on my shoulder and heard laughter. I turned around to see who it was. It was an elephant. A small - as elephants go - and, thankfully, friendly elephant, but it wasn't some paper maché replica. The elephant owner was a skinny old man with about four teeth. Someone gave the elephant some bananas. We took some pictures, tipped the elephant man a few Baht. He politely wayed the crowd, smiled and sauntered off towards Sukhumvit. I think in the early nineties Bangkok outlawed elephants in most of the city. I was glad to find Thailand in the late eighties. I was 35. What memories! Patong Beach, Bangkok etc. I'm a codger now but it was the trip of my life.

Love Karl’s channel. Fantastic places he gets to. Off track, fitness and a head for heights required.

Great content again Pete, thanks

Top vlog,love listening to karl talk about the old days in Thailand. My first trip was in1997 koh samui, lovevtge place✌🙏

I love this guy!! Thanks for the retrospective!!

I love this guy ! Great interview!

Enjoy watching Karl’s adventures…. Thanks Pete

Young Karl looks almost like Heath Ledger.

Wonderful stories.

Enjoyed that Pete, thanks for sharing that and have a lovely Christmas

One of your best interviews, this guy is really likeable

Great interview Pete. Karl is a true gentleman.

Great to see and hear from Karl again. Nice guy. Love his jungle and mountain walks. So much so have done 2 of the hikes shown in his films. Love Karl's old stories and memories of Thailand. Cheers to you Pete and Karl!

Legend. Love his vlogs. The old photos. I have some from 90's lol So different. Good and not so good. x

Love Karl's channel.. Totally unique and has been a great source of info for exploring the wider country. Saw Karl in soi 7 Pattaya last nite and he was on great form. Was nice to see you to Pete briefly in Bangkok last month. Merry Christmas everyone.

Fantastic video, I’ve known Karl since the mid 80s, great to see he still has so much passion both nostalgia for the past as well as optimism for the future. Hopefully he will come back to Pha-ngan at some point to com-let’s a hike that we were meant to do but stupid me took us on the wrong trail, happy days regardless always good to see him.

I love listening Karls stories, would love a pint and a chat with him.

Following Karl a great story teller like Karl I was in Thailand for a short time in 87. It was crazy wild like he said and soooooo much fun!

Think it might be the most interesting interview you have done Pete. What a guy!

Love the photo. They really bring his story to life.

What a cool guy 🙏🏻 Great interview

Two of my very FAVORITES YOU TUBERS.

Great stories really good viewing.

I love Karl. Great guy with some great stories.

Thanks Pete & Karl

Hes definitely a great guy. Ive travelled alot with karl

I walked a similar path! Went full time in Phuket in '86. Regrets? Only getting old!

I consider this guy's Thailand story.... a.....DEFINITE Success Story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I ❤ your Chanel!

Another great interview. That brought back some good memories of my first visit to Thailand in 1988 . Probably the best trip ever and on a tight budget just the same as Karl was.

Cool. I’m from the UK. I started going to Thailand in April 1982 aged 19 and as green as grass! Many stories from then. Went in 83, 84 and then 92 93, 2004, 2005, 2010. It was so different in 1982 Alan Whicker did a BBC documentary on pattaya from The QE2 ship. Needed up in Philippines and now on 2nd Filipina wife.

Great story Pete

Love Karl’s channel and his stories from his life. Didn’t realise his wife went to UK with him, I wonder how that affected her/them? I’m interested as my wife has lived in UK with me for nearly 20 years and isn’t sure about retirement back to Thailand 🇹🇭 Great content as always Pete👌🏼

I stayed at east west hotel and nana hotel 1968. Still staying at nana 2x a year from US I’m 75 still loving it.

Very interesting stories 😊

I love Karl’s stories. Cool interview I also will never forget my first trip to Thailand

Great interview. Love Karl and his channel. His trips back to places. With before and after pictures. I love his memories. And how times have changed. The Air disaster is so sad. Great interview. Pete.

Good stories from the old days.

Great storyteller

Great stories, Karl. I would have loved to see Thailand back in the day, especially the 40 Baht-a-night rooms on the beach. :) - Fantastic content, Pete.

Fantastic interview, owed in part to the outstanding guest- probably my favourite yet on your channel.

Love the video Pete! Karl seems like he is such a cool guy! Love his channel and thanks for interviewing him again 😊

Spent some good times in Thailand in 1979. Straight out of the UK, some some exciting times

What a Very Nice Story’s, from a very sympathetic man. 🙏

Yes! Karl is a grand grand Man. Up there with Bangkok Pat!! 🎉

Karl has a way with words.

Love Karl's channel, particularly his stories about his early days in Thailand. I went there in the early 90's armed with the latest copy of Lonely Planet, it was like arriving on another planet. Good times.

The thing with the Lauda Air Crash was it was a Boeing 767 and during the initial testing of the 767 prior to it being available for commercial service one of the tests was a reverse thruster deployment during flight and the aircraft was found to be controllable. The problem was Boeing tested the flight configuration at low altitude in more dense air and not at cruise altitude of 35,000 ft plus where the air is less dense. Unfortunately this created unrecoverable flight conditions at that altitude. Mayday/ Aircraft Investigations did an episode on it. Final note is Nikki Lauda was a certified 767 pilot himself.

Karl is cool !!! Kudos to how many of Thailands mountains he has climbened !!! Thank you for this great interview !!!

The mans a Legend who shows the real Thailand

Karl is a top guy! Met him in November at Le Pub in Pattaya and had a beer with him. Such a genuine nice guy. We had a chat about Siem Reap and he was showing me photos on his phone from the 80’s. Brilliant guy! Love his channel

The good old days❤

Great interview, Pete! Wish I was in Thailand but hopefully one day soon I’ll be able to make a trip to check it out. Your channel is one of the reasons I want to go and probably never come back to the Snowy North US ❄️ Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to you and yours!

Karl seems a great guy he always has a smile on his face. It's probably because he's had such an exciting life. Great pics and amazing stories 👌

Karl is so easy to listen to. Great interview 👍🏻 , well done.

Love that he went to Ko Samui, just following the directions from his Aussie boarder in London.

Cool you asked about Wong.

brilliant. nothing better than stories of days and years gone by. reflection on how we thought then and reexamining now. thairish times is the right format to take all this in. thank you.

I could listen to you two all day. Amazing interviewer and interviewee. So enjoyable 😉

What interesting and gripping stories Karl has. The high and lows of experiences in Thailand . Funny enough Pete I did the same when I got in to my wife brother car 😂😂. The photos with date stamps are great and show Thailand in a different time. Nice one Pete great vlog

man I would love to live life pre internet ... there's almost 0 sense of adventure left on Earth thanks to social media

Started following Karl's channel after your first video with him. Unique side of Thailand and love the old stories as well.

Karl comes across as a very genuine fella as you do too.. he's had an interesting life in Thailand..great vlogs too.. thanks... Ps I remember my first time on Asia/Thailand.. sensory overload is all I can remember.. late 80s.. loved it ever since.

I was one of the first at the scene of the plane crash in Koh Samui.

Stuck in N. America for now(circumstances) these Thai vids are PAINFUL! Coz technically Im free and financed to leave tonight

Malaysia Hotel also had a 24 hr coffee shop so you could drink there after hrs. I knew Wong well first met him in 1980 before he opened his bar, we use to hang out in the Blue Fox and drink beer together. The area around the Malaysia hotel was the area for Hippies and back packer to go before Khaw san road became the place to go.

Heh heh. Well, the local Thais may not steal a couple of forks from a shrine, but somebody local did loot the bodies, to the point that the embassies were complaining they couldn't identify the dead because all of their documents were gone. Just like everybody else, Thai people are deep and complex.

Those crows feet tell a story of a life well lived.

Karl has an extremely POSITIVE channel. He might do more videos relating to how Old Farang can get into shape, after coming to Thailand. Very motivational, obviously, his videos..... (Any Old Farang coming to Thailand should put exercise near the top of their activities. This is the best way to enjoy your stay here.....much more!)

Great chat. Would love to know how old Karl is. And his age first time in Thailand in 1987 ? I stayed 3 months on Samui in 89, first time there. Everything was so cheap. Hard place to leave back then. 👍

Miami hotel is at petchaburi soi 35 i live few minutes walk from it I hit the street of Bangkok in 1999 ever since I’m here traveling in and out back forth traveling the world but Thailand 🇹🇭 is my base 🤣🤗🙏🏾❤️🇹🇭✌🏾🎩

I remember Karl from Pattaya Addicts forum days.

I met karl and his mates in 87 on a Thailand island called Koh Samui , we all met at sun flower bungalow, top pommy blokes living on white rice😂, the owners sue and yung would get pissed because all they would eat was rice😂, but all was good 😂, i had a foot race on the beach with adam, Australia 👌 won😂. Karl great story teller, nice guy 👍. Koh Samui was paradise in 87, but now absolutely ruined by greed and corruption, like karl says very sad😢.

the air crash from Lauder Air crashed about 15 min from my farm in Supunburi. There is still the cockpit there still today. Everything else got looted by the Thais! You can still go up there in the national park! Very creepy!

Can you link the video for part 1 with Karl please.

He looks like a bodybuilder. he is in great physical shape. How old is he, anyway? He looks about 60, maybe....

1987 Karl!

What Thai League football team is that jersey and where did you get it?

Thumbs up 👍 Pete & Karl…….. What a great life Karl is having 😎

Me too I’ve been following Karl🔝In my opinion he does some of the best hikes in the most gorgeous places of Thailand available on YT! Big up to both of you guys! Tnx for the great content!!!🔝👏🙏💙🇹🇭

I boarded the overnight blue coconut boat from Sarat Thani to Koh Samui for the first time, sleeping on mats on the floor. Lonely Planet used to warn of the threat of Thai pirates No one talks about the Thai Pirates these days, who inflicted unspeakable atrocities on Vietnamese boat people in the 80s, there was a tragic episode known as the Koh Kra massacre, but there were many others.

Did you ever meet Wong`s Japanese wife Karl.

Plenty of stories to share from 1985 onwards😅

Listening to Karl puts me to sleep , i think i've found the cure to my decades long insomnia

Karl has some great stories and is a good story teller, but he doesn't say anything about his wife? or his wife's story?

Thailand blew me away my first few days. I decided to not research or learn anything about the country and just dive into it lol

Naughty Nigel etc....