Three Pagodas Pass Sangkhla Buri

So a couple of days in Kanchanburi was just what the doctor ordered... well not the doctor but a Highly Specialised Clinical Neuro something i.e. my wee sis Ciara. Some by the Kwai chilling, good food and post India acclimatisation. Staying at Baan Ma Feung, just off the backpacker drag was probably a good thing too, another awesome little booking. …

Okay, if you get car sick then you really wont like the minibus ride up to Sangkhla from Kan. It is a winding bouncy, pot-hole filled journey with overtaking on blind corners at some serious speed for a minibus and just to top it off the driver takes his hands off the wheel and prays with his eyes closed for a few seconds every time you drive past …

Sangkhlaburi, Thaimaa, 5.1.-15.1.2013

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Travelfish.org julistaa Sangkhlaburin lempikohteekseen Thaimaassa. Kyllä maar, rakastuin Sangkhlaburiin, minäkin. Travelfish, tuo oikeaoppinen profeetta. Sangkhlaburi ottaa arjen hissukseen eikä yritä mahtailla. Aito, luonnonkaunis, maaginen, pysäyttää ajan huomaamatta.

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... of the most friendly people you can meet. By the time we got to the cave I realised we were only 1km away from Three Pagodas Pass so we took a quick detour. The Pagodas are really quite unimpressive. You see them on postcards and they look big but they ...

... as they are across the border inside Burma. As soon as we left the main highway heading to the border town and the Three Pagodas Pass, it was rock and roll driving on bumpy dirt roads. Children that are malnourished run out of their huts and wave, women ...

...  Burma and there were some nice bits of teak furniture. Are they still logging teak there? About 22 kms north is the Three Pagodas pass which is the last town on this side of the border. It rained most of the time I chugged there and had to ...

... here (had a week of desperate housewives marathons!), got to know some of the locals well (got taken on a tour of Three Pagodas Pass and around by Satiem, one of our translators, and were treated to the BEST Burmese breakfast in the market by another ...

... discuss the adverse impart that development work can have on local communities. Christmas day was lovely, after going to the Three Pagodas pass at the border town to get cheap Burmese whiskey we went and lazed the afternoon away at Songkalia River. With ...

We got up, checked out and hurried off to the bus station for our truck to Three Pagodas Pass and the Burmese border.   We had read that when things were going well between Thailand and Burma, the Thai government would sell day ...

... attempt to experience all that this place has to offer…I have been going on weekend adventures, we went to the three pagodas pass (the border to Burma) to support the illegal orchid trade to decorate our respective houses, went adventuring in the ...

... our second week Preschanta and Ramesh, two of the older boys, took us for a tour of Sangklaburi.  We visited Three Pagodas Pass, home of the (currently closed) border checkpoint with Myanmar.  We could look over the barrier into this ...

... Although it was not possible to visit Burma (Myanamar) at the time of our visit, we made a trip out to the border at Three Pagodas Pass to stare into the country Three Pagodas Pass was crammed with Burmese, as it was a market day, and one could see the ...

Bang on the border with Burma. Rattling through military checkpoints on the back of an old truck to the tiny crossing. "Closed today", equal relief and disappointment, but I manage to stick my arm into Burma at ...