River Kwai Bridge Resort Kanchanaburi

... so green and brought out all sorts of maternal feelings in me that I wasn&#8217;t aware that I had&#8230;I wanted to wrap him in cotton wool.<br><br>My impressions of my first Muslim country I have ever been to &#8230;well the lil bit of a huge city like KL that I saw! It&#8217;s a confused place&#8230;.it has a Sky tower, like Auckland, it has twin towers, a golden triangle, China town, little India and a CBD that gave me culture shock, and even featured a 'biggest ever ...

... apart.. only fifty years ago.<br><br>We took a train from Thakilen to Ko Maha Mongkhon. It was great. We luckily scored some seats in the rickety third class cab we were in. It shakes enough to make you a little nervous. There's no glass in the windows, it's just open. We passed through fields of I'm not sure what, just looking out over the tall grass and we passed a wat. There was a break in the trees and over this cliff we were on was the river. You could look up and ...

... When we arrived at the resort we checked into our amazing room which was right on the river. This was so beautiful. I don&#8217;t know if it compares to the mighty Waccamaw River in Conway, but it sure does come close (that was a joke. This river is 100000 times better). In the evening all of the students played a bunch of icebreaker games, and then were assigned teams for the Ninja games on Saturday. Each chaperone was to be in charge of 12 students as their team, and think of a team ...

... after Tham Krasae is the cave hollowed out with a buddha inside. A really exciting ride but when you sat back and thought about it, it was also very sad. Once we reached Nam Tok and saw there was nothing there we bought 2 return tickets and some ice creams, then went and sat back down but to the Kwai Bridge station this time.<br>After getting off the train and once it had left you could walk across the bridge ...

... because there were four of us in the back.<br><br> Once we got to Kanchanaburi our first stop was the River Kwae bridge. I'm sure most people have at least heard of the movie, even if they haven't seen it, and this was the famous bridge that was built by POW's in the violent care of the Japanese. It was part of the infamous Death Railway to Burma and while it was originally scheduled to take five years to build, it was done in 16 months. How's that for ruthless ...

... to get the front of the office up and running as soon as possible. Several foreigners have walked past the front of the office wondering exactly what we're all about. Its not just gonna be a regular office where we just give travel information and take bookings. We're going to make it into a place where people can come and chill out, drink coffee and read a book. In typical Thai style it will be very 'sabaii sabaii'.........

... to be seen. When the nurse finally called them in we could only imagine what they were doing to the bump on her head as her baby cries went from your average wail to a bloodcurdling screaming. It was so horrible we nearly had to leave the room! When her mum finally brought her out half of her head was covered in a white bandage and the rest of her face was bright red from tears. Poor little tot didn't have a nice time - apparently they lanced it. However ...

Wed. 26 Feb. 6:45pm, internet cafe with only locals..off the tourist main street. Cool, high ceiling, few songs played off cell phones, teen guy watching Indian music videos, cell phone songs ringing. Mood: good feeling after long day of exercise feeling, one eye is cloudy hope it's just mucous not blind!, happy (: This morning woke at 7am yeah! Up for great breakfast-Thai style omelet with veggies, Kayadsai. And yogurt mixed fruit shake, banana ...

... and were not on public show but thanks to Tong, we got to sneak up with one of the staff members and have a look at them, they were teeny!! But it was cool to see them! After a wander around the grounds feeding the boar and the goats, we headed out again and as it was still early enough in the day, Tong asked if we wanted an elephant bath?!!! Well, of course we said yes, so after some more lovely food, and a quick stop off on the side of the road to ...

... created a santurary for tigers that have been rescued from poachers near the Thai/Bruma boarder. Its like a zoo without cages!!! The animals are allowed to roam free and among the people visiting... the best part is of course the tigers! So first you sign your life away and then get to have your pictures taken with them.. some of them were chained but some were not.. all but one was sleepy/sedated (i think they are druged personally). It was kind of weird. They ...