Thai Garden Inn Kanchanaburi

... safely back to the surface...in pitch darkness...with slippery jagged rocks everywhere...the prospect of a leg-break if I slipped or put a foot wrong, and not to mention so much sh*t in my pants that I may not fit back up any of the slim holes I had come down anyway. <br>I wondered how often people visited the cave, considering that I haven't seen a soul in over an hour (and nearly 2 kilometres of walking). I walked to the top of a rock-mound and looked down over the ...

... the town and booked ourselves on a trek for the following day, before embarking on the 2km trek to the Bridge. The Bridge was built by Allied Prisoners and Asian forced labour under conditions of extreme mistreatment by Japanese soldiers in World War Two. Allied bombers were sent to destroy the bridge but the Japanese, having received word of this, marched hundreds of prisoners out on to the Bridge where they were killed by their own pilots who carried through their mission ...

... contain photos.....paintings......and press articles spanning the period.............once again very revealing.........<br><br>From there we visited the War Cemetary..........this is one of three in Thailand...............the land was donated by the people of Thailand in honour of those foreign soldiers who gave there lives......<br><br>This is truly an amazing place............impeccably maintained.........manicured to perfection...............emotional again.......oh yesssss ...

... walk to the river and we got a place at Jolly Frog - b200 baht a night and we were only going to stay one anyway. Next door but one from us was a guy called Matt who was a biologist on a break from a 10 week expedition in the jungles of Cambodia, and who was escorting his research assistant from Bangkok. He was a sound bloke, dreads and all, and was actually sorting out his expenses as we checked in (with a calculator etc). Chatted for a while about thailand and uni etc ...

... the market in hemp. I am amazed the world needs so much hemp. I would have been equally surprised if they were 'our' plants that the world could need so much grass. Although it probably does. So the train ride was interesting. Completely overcrowded with school-children and boy scouts we were forced to stand for most of the journey, riding between the carriages railroad style with the doors parked open. Liza got a seat when ...

... at them from the front row! The winner, as we worked out, seemed to be the person who received the most garlands at the end of their dance. People in the crowd would throw garlands and flowers up to the child of their choice - it was certainly an experience you wouldn't see in England! On Wednesday Will and I took some of the younger kids to Whispering Seeds, a kindergarten right next to the Myanmar border. It is an amazing place, which you will see from ...

... but clean and relatively efficient. All the windows are down which acts as horrible A/C because its hot as heck outside. The 2.5 hour train ride goes quickly and we arrive in ??? to find Sam's Guest House that has availability. The girls get a room and I get my own at the steep price of 450 baht ($15) per room, including breakfast! The rooms are nothing special but they are on stilts over the River Kwai... this is ...

... gave us an idea of the fun we would be having with this gorgeous, crazy, beautiful woman!!! So, at 6:30 am we hopped into a very nice air conditioned jeep with just Joe me and Tong. We headed out from Bangkok towards Kanchanaburi about 2 hours outside the city. The first stop of the day was to a small temple with beautiful wood carvings inside. It was absolutely beautiful and very quiet! Tong's approach to her tours is to show you the queiter, local ...

... than their smaller household cousins. More on that though in a second. The trip costs a cheap 1800 baht and represents very good value. First on the agenda is the cemetery where many of the soldiers who died building the bridge are buried, before viewing the bridge itself. The original was bombed during WW II and has since been replaced by a concrete version, but you can still walk on the last remains of ...

... wat**fall. H** badet og lekte både voksne og barn. Men siden vi ikke visste at vi skulle stoppe h** hadde vi ikke tatt med oss badetøy :(<br><br>En monsun!<br>Når vi kom tilbake til elvebåten, slappa alle av frem til det var mat. Rune og Andreas badet i elva sammen med Charlie, han som ei** båten. Und** kveldsmaten begynte det å lyne og tordne, og regnet høljet ned! Meg og Belinda så da vårt snitt til å ta oss en liten dusj i regnet. Planen ble endret da båten nesten ble ...