Kanchanaburi Ranches - Reviews and Rates

Since my friend has to take care of the pigs a couple times a day it's kind of hard for him to get away for any trips or vacations but my presence provided a good excuse to pack up the fam (that includes some extended members), take the kid out of school for the day, and head even a little further west to check out a few touristy sights.I had p...

Woke around 9 and had a full English at Hanrahans Irish bar where i met up with Gordie. I phoned Mr Noom who had taken me to the floating market, he said he would take us to the Bridge on the river Kwai for 2.500 baht, 25 quid each. So we arrange to meet up with him at 11am. We finally got to the bridge around 2ish and spent time taking photos. ...

Sunday was a day of rest, lie in till 10:30 when we were rudely awakened by monks with a tannoy! We were allowed a bit more sleep until what seemed like the whole of thailand came past our hut on a party boat! The rest of the day was spent lazing around, reading and catching up on emails. Great to have the luxury of doing nothing! Today, in cont...

Headed to pick up Tanaree and take her back to Bangkok for the visa interview.

Well, not having too much choice, I yet again chose Kanchanaburi as me destination for a few days. Asking me why I still like it, I can only say that most of the tourist areas there haven't really changed over the years and some of the guesthouses are still looking exactly the same as they did when I first went there back in '91'. There's just o...

About a year after seeing the Tiger Temple on the Discovery Channel, I finally made it back to Kanchanaburi after 16 years. There was tour(pickup truck) going to the temple about an hour after we checked in so we took the easy way there. Although the temple is very touristy and literally hundreds of people visit it everyday, I really wanted to s...

Ok, so I left you guys in Chiang Mai...well the last day in Chiang Mai Dan and I took a day tour of some of the hill tribes. We drove about 1 1/2 hours from the city and saw a few tribes in the morning. After lunch we went to a cave temple that was pretty amazing. There were all kinds of statues and relics of Buddhism for several hundred years. ...

So, I'm trying to get better at having more frequent blogs as I get emails requesting more! I also get lots of requests for photos but as it takes so much time for me to get them up here you may have to wait until I get home. That's not too long though, only 7 weeks! Yikes! So much to do still! Anyways, back to updating... After I last wrote, Mi...

Today has been a day of two halves really, I've had a brilliant day but then it's also been quite sad  as well. We were up really early and down in the restaurant tucking into eggs, bacon and lovely fresh bread rolls, baked in-house, waiting to be picked up for our day trip. We hadn't booked with the Jolly Frog as we'd read in a comments book th...

The 2 hour bus trip across to Kanchanaburi was reasonably comfortable, and we arrived in a much more peaceful (but still hot) place. Kanchanaburi is the location of the famous bridge from the film 'The Bridge over the River Kwai' and was the location of POW camps set up by the Japanese to build a railway between Thailand and Burma to support the...