Homduang Boutique Resort Kanch Kanchanaburi

... Allies. It's pretty ironic. The Japanese sent out all these prisoners, almost all of them European/Australian, out to the bridge to "welcome" the planes, but they knew it was in vain and were bombed, killing all their own people and destroying most o the bridge. It's said that the river actually turned red from all the bodies in the river. Casey and I walked across it, which was actually much riskier than I thought. No trains go across the bridge anymore I think. The ...

... team name, and create a team cheer. We were the blue team (duh greatest color on earth), and the students chose us to be the Vipers. What is funny is that Thais have trouble pronouncing Vs and pronounce them like Ws, so we were essentially the “wipers” all weekend. It was funny. Ok so anyways, that was the end for Friday.

On Saturday they split the freshmen group up into 2 groups and one went to the museum and the other went to some really sweet caves. I was with ...

... see the hard work that clearly went in to its building. We refueled at a floating resturant that looked out over the bridge and served expensive food. (however we hadnt had breakfast or lunch and it was now 4, so we didnt care). We decided to walk home coz the taxi man wanted a silly amount just to drive down the river. We made it back and showered and are now sat sharing a beer with the geckos.

LJ & Gaz

... that sits over a little pond. If possible, the food was even better this time and I ate and drank until my belly distended. All the veggie dishes were amazing and each had a different flavor. There was the dark brown peppery soup with tofu the size and shape of marshmallows, the eggplant and onion dish that was full of cilantro, the rigatoni-sized lotus root that was nice and spicy, and some other bok choi-like green that was my favorite. I slept a happy man...

... into my brain-attic, dusted off my French language skills (that took a few hours), and spent most of the day speaking French, albeit with a limited vocabulary and much butchering of verb tenses. It was sooooo much fun! Ultimately, in addition to some serious physical activity yesterday, I was also working my brain hard. By the time I turned in at around 9pm last night to read and go to sleep, I was exhausted physically and mentally, and I felt ...

... had found a nice hostel on the riverside and emailed Banj the address. The place was really nice, the rooms were either floating on the river or on stilts just off the river bank. Kanchanaburi is a smallish town right on the river kwai and this is where "the bridge over the river kwai" was bulit during WW2. I had seen the bridge the first time i was in Thailand but i didnt stay in the town. We checked out a few of the other sights but ...

... about Koh Chang in the shade of some trees. The final part of our trip was to get a train along the Death Railway. This was cool when it was moving and you got a nice breeze going but it stopped at some stations for 15 minutes so it got a little hot and sticky. We eventually got back to Bangkok after a long day around 8.30pm. Here I went into the travel agent in my guesthouse and booked my transfer to Koh Chang for the next day - cant wait to get to the beach!!!

... orphaned animals, which now houses the original orphans and the 38 members of a tiger family including four of the most gorgeous 7 week old cubs, Otto, Mecca, Bota and Ravi One. The temple is only open for a few hours after the tigers are fed, during their appointed afternoon snooze, and the public is permitted to go and pet the young adult tigers and have their photo's taken with these awe inspiring animals. The largest of these was a magnificent 2 ...

... Palace... i say visit, we looked at it from out side seeing as they were charging a stupidly high price for the experience. We saw a massive, and i mean massive reclining Buddha at Wat Po, which i personally found to be very impressive... i even prostrated towards the Buddha as a mark of respect. I wandered on my own around china town, quiet a walk and very enjoyable.... no one else fancied it, but i think being on my own added to the ...

... falls were the highlight of the day, there were not paths and properly set out routes, you were really just climbing up the rocks that surrounded the water, and it parts you could actualy walk up the waterfall, in some areas bridges or small sets of wooden stairs had been put in as its too high to climb up, these had not been repaired for some time and were rickity, big time, they were ******* planks and below would be flowing water or a 12 foot drop that would ...