Bridge over the River Kwai and Elephants

Trip Start Apr 16, 2008
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Trip End Aug 11, 2008


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Flag of Thailand  , Kanchanaburi,
Thursday, May 1, 2008

We arrived in Kanchanaburi on Tuesday 29th April. Kanchanaburi is a tourist hotspot 2 hours train journey north west of Bangkok. The train journey itself was an experience, a really old fashioned train with open windows and doors instrad of aircon and riekety flooring. There were locals jumping on and off at random places, many getting on to try to sell their goods/ food/ drinks. Despite being far from the luxurious traiuns we have in UK we arrived safe and arrived we booked ourselves into a nice hostel situated on the river Kwai. The town lives for its tourists who come here mainly because of the bridge over the River Kwai...which is apparently is nothing like the original bridge mind.

For our first day in Kanchanaburi we set off to get a local bus to Erawin Falls, a local waterfall 7 tiers high. The bus journey was another 2 hours but it was more than worth it as, we hope, the pictures may prove, although it was a hundred times more spectacular in real life cheeky monkey
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 . We spent 3 hours at the waterfalls, which was a 3km hike to get to the top+ back down. The waterfall was set in a national park, there were wild monkeys that roamed free and stole any food in sight, and made a b-line for carrier bags :). We managed to get a few photos of us with them which followed us down for a short while! On returning to Kanchanaburi we opted to have a British meal of steak (Sam) and burger (Christina)... very craved for as our only British meal in 2wks.

On our second day we decided to book a tour which took us to a tiger temple run by the monks and then took us on to an elephant camp where we were able to ride on an elephant :). It has been a great couple of days so far ( with an expection to the unpteen bits we've both collected so far, lol... but well worth it for what we've seen + experienced!) in Kanchanaburi and we are looking forward to a tour of the Bridge over the River Kwai museum tomorrow and then a Thai cooking course on Saturday. We plan to move on then Sunday morning back to Bangkok to then make out way to South Thailand, perhaps stopping off in Cambodia for a few days.

Lots of love from us both to everyone back home xXx xXx

K.J - hope you have a fab time on ur rugby tour + good luck, let us no how u get on.

Love you lots XxXxX
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