Kanchanaburi Hotels Reviews and Rates

Des cascades dans la jungle...

C'est en moto que nous nous rendons au pied des chutes, 3 heures aller/retour!

Ces cascades font partie d'un immense parc national du meme nom.

Nous montons d'abord a la superieure et nous baignons dans le bassin. L'eau est turquoise et chaude... nous sommes surpris par les sucions des poissons! Nous descendons progressivement …

Mum, I got a tattoo. And I nearly died here.

So, yeah. The title says all. When we arrived in this wonderfully quiet city, we argued with a Songathew driver on the agreed fare, got him down to 40 bahts, and made our way to the amazing Jolly Frog backpackers guesthouse. Amazing. Why? Because it had one of the best view of any guesthouse we stayed at during our whole travel, a panoramic view of …

Bridge over the river Qua

Who would have thought that the actual bridge looks so different than the one in the film:


Here is what the actual bridge looks like:


The first day i arrived in the town it was once again very difficult to find a place to stay, after looking at 3 i managed to find somewhere with a double for 150thb - the blue star lodge …

River Kwai - Tiger Temple - Erawan Waterfall

ok so i suck at blogging apparently, so forgive me for the shorthand -- ive been very bad at keeping up!

After spending three nights in Bangkok, we took a minibus to Kanchanaburi for the night. We Spent time at the Bridge over river Kwai as well as a war museum before having lunch. After we ate lunch on the floating resturant we went to …

Bridge on the river Kwai, historical inaccuracies

We set up home back in Bangkok, revisiting the hotel we previously stayed in on our brief visit a week earlier. Again this was only a temporary stop off, as we planned a two day trip to Kanchanaburi. This is a town getting close to the border of Burma, and is most famous for the Bridge on the River Kwai, our main reason for the visit. The journey …

Bridge over the river Kwai

So I made it back to Bangkok from Chiang Mai on the overnight train again and began my search for a guesthouse. My tour mates Izzy and Katie came with me as we went in and out of the guest houses around Koh San Road until I settled on one called the Green house guest house on the road parallel to Koh San (not quite as crazy or noisy!). The girls …

Broen over floden Kwai

Saa kom vi endenlig ud af Bangkok. Vi er taget til en lille by, der hedder Knachanaburi og ligger lidt nordvest for Bangkok. Vi havde faaet at vide at turen i bus ville tage mellem to en halv og tre timer, men grundet meget lidt trafik og en lidt fartgal buschauffoer naaede vi frem paa kun to timer. Vi tog en taxa til vores hotel hvor vi blev …

Kanchanaburi, Tiger Temple and River Kwai

After a couple of hours drive on the minibus, we arrived in Kanchanaburi and pulled into an exceptionally up market hotel by our standards at around 11ish, had lunch, and then were shown to our room. This was by far an away the nicest place we've stayed on the whole trip with a huge, clean room, massive bed, fancy bathroom, air con, TV, fridge, …

Back to Bangkok and off to Kanchanaburi

Well, after the 13h bus journey from Siem Reap, on a minibus without suspension and on a non-existent road, we arrived back in Bangkok on the eve of the Queen's birthday, which meant that the whole city was lit up with a million lights! How nice to be back :) And coming back to Koh San Rd, I felt like I was on speed in heaven! So many people and so …

Tigers in a Temple?

Most people come to Kanchanaburi to see the Bridge over the River Kwai - however, being as well informed on the inhumanity of humans from our time in Cambodia, we came here to see the tiger temple. We took the morning train from Bangkok (which incidentally charges all foreigners 100b, four times the usual price and over double the price we'd paid …