Tardtong Kanchanaburi

... It was fine dining compared to the previous culinary ordeal.<br><br>Bangkok was a laugh anyway. I went to a club i had researched on the internet called The Brick Bar. It had a live Ska band playing who were playing all original songs and were pretty darn good. They certainly got my feet moving. The club was filled with 99% Thai folk and I must admit it was a tad intimidating to being with and I was careful not to step on any toes. As the night wore on alcohol quashed my inhibitions ...

... Kwai, on a raft - its fabulous! We have a little balcony looking onto the river and some floating Lotus flowers, and best of all, no cocky-roacheys!! Although, we do have kareoke boats sailing past every now and then, with a lot of drunk Thai people singing away - tis amusing...its what I sound like!<br><br>Today we hired some bicycles (pink for me, blue for Matt) to explore the city and go see the bridge. Luckily the ...

... boarder its been recomended to us by one of my old rugby boys(jovens). Got some great pictures of the elephant riding which will go on as soon as i get to a faster computer. The ancient temples further north at Sok....... were also spectactular. We have nearly completed stage 2 of the trip the weather is till hot every day although when it rains it pours, we have been lucky and it is usually when we are ...

... plaque stating names and epitaphs for the fallen. It is in the most peaceful and remote of places. I couldn't begin to imagine what it would have been like to be a POW having to work on the Death Railway, I was struggling enough in the heat just walking around the cemetery, let alone having to do hard labour in these conditions. After that I went to the WW2 museum which is next to the bridge. Considering the amount of history in the region there wasn't much to ...

... in just over an hour. Along the way several old, wide buttressed trees decorated with bright orange silks and multi coloured prayer scarves decorated the path. Phi Ton Mai translates to "ghosts that reside in tree" and these trees are said to be occupied by spirits. <br>The following extract comes from this website<br> http://www.thailandlife.com/thai-cultur e/superstitions-about-trees-and-plants- 02.html<br> The Takian tree in the ...

... the lake in the middle of the town. When we passed an immigration checkpoint, the guards didn't give our white faces a second glance but checked Preschanta and Ramesh's ID cards. Their cards only permitted them to travel within the Sangklaburi area - no further. Imagine - being 18 years old and only being able to travel within your home town and no further! Crazy. Just before our trip to Chaam the days seemed to be getting hotter and hotter. We started ...

... women in matching pink polos took photos of and with us for a good 10 minutes..felt a bit odd considering the importance of the history of the bridge. what with deaths and all. Han and i ate our first coconut. then epilated our legs. communally. met a guy called tony in the bar and had a few drinks, talking mainly about Bristol and how wonderful it was. i think he thought we were odd, and was only nice as he was a bit ******. the next day he ignored us. oh dear. we ate in a ...

... my arm and is leading me over to a keeper who hands me a milk bottle and then I am hand feeding a real live Tiger!!!!!!! They are absolutely beautiful animals, and so amazing to rub and hold. Then the little baby cubs who are only about five weeks old come out to play. They are actually wandering around freely ready to play with whoever. We got some amazing photos and video footage. Then we headed down to Tiger Canyon, where all the bigger tigers spend ...

Yeasterday I went on a tour that went to Kanchanaburi which is about 2 hours North/West of Bangkok. We started off at the Kanchanaburi War Cementary which is where the American, British and Austalian Prisoners of War from World War II are burried. It is quite the powerful place and very well mantained. After we went to the museum of the "Death Railway" it is such an intersting history lesson they had part of the original bridge that the POWs along with civilan slave ...

... cemetery. It was very moving. We first went into the museum to read up about the whole historical account and then went straight across the road to the cemetary. There were hundreds of plaques from the British (approx 7,000), the Australians, Dutch and of course many more unidentified Malaysian's, Indian's and Burmese. Men were forced into constructing a railway in record time through ...