M.K. Hotel Kanchanaburi

... and look around trying to figure out what to do.

5. Laugh

6. Keep undergarments on, but take off the rest of your clothes

7. Proceed to stand there not knowing what to do

8. Laugh some more

9. Realize that the material placed in the basket beside you is not a sheet but scrub like clothing to put on.

10. Try to put on said clothing ...

... bars’ these are also Thai style restaurants and a few coffee shops which I affectionately call night clubs…..yes ladies and gentlemen my next two years are going to consist of a Friday night sitting on a houseboat drinking rice wine or local whiskey. Christmas might be sitting on the longest teak foot bridge in Asia, and New Years will probably be spent sitting around a fire singing songs with Thai, Burmese and humanitarian workers singing songs, and talking ...

... good and I found myself on the wrong road on more than one occasion. First place was Muang Sing ruins which date from about the 14 century. The present ruins appea to be the temple and it was not clear if people also lived there. By the river was a burial site but it might have been holy men Not much infor avail. The only people that were Thais. No tourists.

A very peaceful place. I went back on the main road to continue onto Hell Fire Pass named by the POW' S ...

... and we got a little trophy and stuff. Its was cool. They were happy and I was happy for them. Also, I love winning so that was cool. Im putting this on my résumé.

On Sunday morning it was my group’s turn to head to the Hell Fire Pass Museum and walk the Death Railway. It was a powerful experience. To think that men carved so deep into the mountains using only hammers and chisels is just mind-boggling. The museum is small but pretty cool. It has a lot of diaries from the ...

... comfy as you do and get out ipods and books etc etc. About 5 mins before we were due to depart the stewardess (yeah they have trolley dollies on the VIP buses as well as the trains) said we had to get off the bus as it was broken and wouldn't be leaving for Bangkok, dooh. So packed everything away including the little packed lunch she'd given us, then got the big bags out of the hold which were now cable locked together (make it a bit more difficult to steal two bags tied together) and ...

... kilometers long to link Kanchanaburi to the Japanese base camp in Thanbyuzayat in Burma, thus ensuring a direct line from Singapore through Malaya and Thailand to link up with the railway network in Burma.  Apart from supplying their bases in Burma, the Japanese had also planned to use the railway to launch an attack on India.

At 12:00 we boarded a van for our return trip to Randy's home in Bangkok.

After consistent weekends of rainy weather, being the "Rainy Season" and all, we finally got a break and on a wing and a prayer we raced to Kanchanaburi. My friend Tony, his friend Nok, Tim and I had been trying to take this trip for a bit. The previous weekend wasn't viable. Tony, being a veteran traveler, had much to show us and tell us about the area. It was a ...

... booth, where they tell me I can just go out on the street, flag it down, and pay 41 baht on the bus. So, I do this, on the busy street just outside the bus station. The bus slows down, I ask if it's going to Nakhon Pathom, and I jump inside. Then, it turns into the bus station to a sidewalk (which I just passed) clearly marked with the bus number. At least the bus staff knows how clueless I am and helps me out, telling me where to ...

... dont know about this basicaly during ww2 the japs forced hundreds of thousands of asians and allied prisoners of war to build a bridge between thailand and burma to use as a supply route. Around 100,000 people died. We mainly just chilled out in kanchanaburi. We did go to the tiger temple but we ended up leaving pretty quickly. I expected it to be a big tiger park with them roaming around with secure fences to stop them eating humans. I thought the human interaction ...

... next we walked down the road to the reconstructed bridge. You could walk over this (which I did) or get a little yellow train over it (I didnt do that). I got someone to take the obligatory picture of me on the bridge. The tour then took us for lunch and then a couple of hours at a waterfall. It was very pretty but since we are in the hot season there wasnt very much water - you couldnt contemplate swimming, more of a plunge pool!! So I spent the couple of hours ...