Pavilion Rim Kwai Kanchanaburi

... view, ears cocked to see if the train was coming (which it never did, thankfully). The cave was crud, except for the Bhudda statue in it, but the view was quality - see pics!<br>I then scooted another 20KM's or so over to Sai Yok Noi Waterfall - again, not particularly what I was after, but a bonus as it is on the way to the main highlight. The waterfall is pretty cool, even for an artificial one. 3 minutes walk to the right of the fall there is a Japanese locomotive ...

... Cave Temple (Wat Tham Ser). About half an hour drive from River Kwai. There are two ways to get up to Wat Tham Ser. One is by foot and the other by a small tram. Imagine my size; have to squeeze a quarter pounder into the tram. I believe the temple is quite new, probably built in a year or two but the whole place is majestically beautiful. All I could see is GOLD, GOLD and GOLD. The Buddha is so huge, beautifully crafted, seated in the Bodhi Leaf. The big tower leads ...

... guys totally unable to speak a single word in English but so willing to help a perfect stranger like me! I have been invited to local houses to seat around the table with their very own families and share what they have! Is hard to explain, its very very rewarding! And makes the trip worth it. Unfortunately I haven´t done all this stuff as often as I would like because its very easy to enjoy the feeling of being in a group and get yourself involved in ...

... would be ok. After that everyone decided that they loved my camera. It was great fun though sitting under the waterfall or sitting down and letting the waterfalls flow over your body. All the water was warm and clear. The only problem was that the river had fish that bite your feet. You see in a lot of places signs for fish massages and basically it is these little baby fish that eat the dead skin off your toes. It doesn&#8217;t cost much to do it and it is ...

... cafe to print off her design. she was up since 8.30 and when we met her at 11.00 she was nowhere near her goal. good ole Louthy Luck! Myself and Pa wnet to the nearby Death Railway museum &amp; POW Cemetary which was interesting and ****. We then ate and got our bus to Bangkok at 13.30. So comes the end of K'buri which was a good way to get over our illnesses (well some of us got sick there) and prepare for the madness of Bangkok...which didnt disappoint<br>

... we got off near Jolly Frog! Got a "taxi" from the Jolly Frog to the bus station - not actually a taxi, but that is what he shouted out to us...it was in fact a small motorbike with some metal poles welded on to make enough "room" for two people. Then again we had all our kit with us, including 2 massive backpacks and whenever we went round the corner we looked at each other with a glazed look in our eyes. Must've been a DIY job!! All part of the experience! And like every other Thai man ...

... we took the kids outside and played games. One day we played team games with water balloons which was hilarious and turned into a full blown water fight! Lunchtime was at about 12.30 then we played more games with them in the afternoon, painted the common room then went to the river. We tried to get an hour of 'rest' back at the house before dinner where we had tea and toast parties (always to be remembered!), read books (or in Angie's case, napped!) and ...

... areas and then go on my way. Once back in my room, I realize that my trusty Rough Guide to South East Asia has some useful information on the place that they said they were headed to later in the day. Let me clarify that this was on my list of things to do before talking to these two cool ladies, Yiknur and Helena... yeah, Yiknur was her name! Anyways, I head back out and offer to let them borrow the book for 10 mins while I ...

... to work while being fed only rice. Malnourished, tortured, diseases in their eyes and on their bodies. Horrible to think anyone could do that to another person, but it happened. And they were forced to build that bridge to connect Thailand to Burma. I don't know how they did it. Though 20% of them died in the process, as well as thousands of Thai locals. Today I went to the TAT office (tourist info) to find out about getting up to Chaing Mai without having to ...

... options - very well. I predominantly wanted to see the tigers, the bridge and the railway were an added bonus. I certainly didn't want to do the floating market and I have already done an elephant trek. So my day started at 7am in a minibus full of Koreans as we headed on the 2hour journey out of Bangkok. Kanchanaburi province is most famous for the Bridge on the River Kwai ...