Luxury Hotel Kanchanaburi

... over the River Kwai. This day didn't seem to go so well and started with a tuk-tuk driver deliberately taking me to the wrong train station, so I missed my train. Instead I had to get a taxi halfway across the city in rush hour traffic to catch a bus. On arrival I was stitched up by a motorcycle taxi driver who took me to his hotel of choice instead of mine despite my telling him to 'stop' numerous times as we drove right past my destination. Then I got served chicken feet for dinner ...

This was probably one of the best days I've had in Thailand so far. Casey and I got up before dawn and took a taxi down to the Khao San Road, the most touristy place I've been to here. There's tons of backpackers there, I haven't seen so many white people in one place in ages.<br><br>Our van picked us up and we headed out to Kanchanaburi, a province a few hours away. It's gorgeous there. It actually has a change of landscape with jungle-y mountains off in the distance ...

... buffs, you may recognize that title from a movie called &#8220;The Bridge over the River Kwai.&#8221; Yes they are the same place. The resort is on a river called the Kwai which is very close to the Burma border and is about a 4 hour journey west of Bangkok. So why this location? Well, as a history teacher with also a degree in history, I feel obligated to give a little lesson here. But don&#8217;t worry it will be brief. Here we go: At the height of WWII, Japan was dominating ...

... t afford to do Hell Fire Pass museum. Maybe.<br>We watched the opening day of the premiership season with Chelsea scraping past Hull and Tommy's club Villa getting outclassed at home by Wigan! Had to retire prior to the Everton - Arsenal game, much to our regret the next day when we found out the 1-6 result!<br>Back to Bangkok the next day in preparation for our necessary border-run to Cambodia!<br>

... It was a matter of seconds before the little fish got to work, their powerful sucking lips supposedly away deadskin, stimulate acupuncture points and modulate your nervous system to relax and calm your body and mind...... Whatever, I find a cup of tea, a good book and a bar of Galaxy does all that without getting wet.<br><br>After leaving the falls and the fish, we paid a visit to the famed Bridge Over The River Kwai. The bridge is much ...

... sparse at the moment to say the least! As we don't have a large budget we're doing it up step by step. First we'll get all the essentials, cooking equipment, a kettle, fans, a mosquito zapper and the rest we'll worry about later. Right now I'm busy writing, designing and making all the literature that needs to go in the office. Brochures, photos and posters etc. Although we're doing things step by step, there is also an ...

... an institution - maybe because there were so many children. When we got back from Didi's, Dada asked Will and I to drive one of the mothers to the hospital with her little daughter, Tutu as she had a big bump on her head that had got infected. A bike had fallen on her a few days before and a lovely purple tennis ball had appeared that just seemed to get bigger by the day! We got to the hospital just as they were closing for lunch(!) so had to wait for an ...

... 3 white girls, 1 in bikini, 2 in pyjjamas dancing on a rafthouse at 7:30 am. made my day. maybe we scarred them? we bummed around in the sun trying to catch up with the infernal journal, named the dogs at the guesthouse with amusing yet unwriteable names- and left to go back to the bustle hustle of bangkok..ready for the 12hour coach journey up north to chang mai, where we will ride elephants and trek and cook and dance and prance in the sun. until then much love to allxxxxxx

... her food and comes to play with her whenever she can. But it's quite sad as well as nobody really knows she's there, there is so much emphasis put on the tigers that you would forget about all the other animals, 2 lions, a leopard, water buffalo, wild boar and their 11 babies who looked like watermelons!!! and loads of birds and goats in the sanctuary! We had another surprise waiting for us, there were 2 five day old cubs just born but they were out of ...

... of Peru. After lunch we checked out a waterfall named Soi Yok Noi, it was kind of a park area for local families to come relax and set up a picnic. Children were sliding down in the mud looked like lots of fun. There was even swimming lessons held for the children in the pool below the waterfall. Then the highlight of my day... We left the water fall and went to the Tiger Temple (this is why I booked the tour in the first place) This place is run by Monks and they ...