Pung-Waan (Kwai Yai) Resort Kanchanaburi

The last night in Bangkok I ended up chatting sh*t with Ron and two girls from the UK ('Would you rather' was played - e.g. "Would you rather have Ricky Hatton punch you up the **** as hard as he can, or Freddy Krueger stab you up the **** with one finger?") and staying up until 3:00a.m. I slept like a corpse, and woke so late that I had to pay a fee for not checking out in time!<br>I wanted to get moving to my next destination, so I bartered very little with a taxi driver ...

... River), and the blockbuster movie of the year in black and white. It stars Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Hawkins, and William Holden. How torrid it was to imagine those days during the WW2, the British Army, American Navy and the Australian Army were tortured in the hands of the Japanese Army. The construction of the railway line is to link Burma and Thailand. The wooden trestle bridge was completed in February 1943, the steel bridge in April 1943. Both the ...

... experience.<br> The bridge was quite remarkable, and gave us some food for thought. It really was amazing walking across it and thinking about all the history behind it. The sourrounding area was very peacefull and we took some more great photos. Our visit to the museum was unfortunately shorter than we had hoped. But we were able to see many of the different weapons that had been used as well as other war artefacts. The ...

Karnchanaburi was the trip that everyone had been looking forward to since we had arrived in Bangkok. It was a three-day, two night trip in the jungle where we would go caving rafting, elephant riding, go to waterfalls, and hike through parts of the jungle. Everyone knew it was going to be fun before we left and I definitely was not disappointed with how things turned out.<br> We left Rangsit at 6 a.m. because it was scheduled to be about a two hour drive to the ...

... today and took a 25 min ride over very narrow viaducts that were built 66 years ago by the POWs. After this we saw the bridge over the River Kwai....made famous by the film starring Alec Guinness, check it out. As it was blown up by the Americans at the end of the war, only some of the original bridge remains but again is worth seeing after finding out what the POWs and Asian workers endured in building it.<br><br>We headed back and went for kip and ...

... and a nice break for us too! We got to see water buffalo and elephants come to drink and bathe occasionally which was awesome. In our first week at Dada's we tried to structure our days by splitting the volunteers into 2 groups of - half of would help Meng with whatever construction work he needed that day and the other half would teach a lesson to some of the kids after breakfast. The next day we would alternate so we didn't get too many blisters or lose ...

... or pants. The food is really good, even though I'm not eating all that much and I make assurance double sure that no dish is spicy before paying for it. Breakfast looked more like a dinner today, but it was actually really good! Dinner was a simple yet amazing chicken fried rice. I fall asleep in a great mood under my bug net ready to catch an early train back to Bangkok in the morning!

... museum, which has been put together by some buddhist monks in memory of those who perished. You weren't allowed to take photos inside, but it was quite horrible. Nothing physically horrible to look at, it was just full of newspaper cuttings, photos and paintings of that period in time, when the Japanese used this town as a POW camp (and then the prisoners in turn were used to build the Kwai bridge, along with local people forced into the work as well). The huts ...

... you should approach the resting tiger and physically moved you into the correct sitting position. Then quick as you like they lift their head and place an amazingly heavy head, complete with it's warmth and drool into your lap... And then there it is a fully growth, king of beasts resting in your lap. Breathing gently, maybe slighly opening an eye, seeminly so so gentle. Then snap snap snap (that's my camera not any jaws or anything ...