Bike ride

  Kanchanaburi, Thailand
Sunday, April 23, 2006

Got up and hired a bike to ride across the other side of the bridge and see what i could find.Must have rode about 30km all over other side,through the countryside and along the road next to the river. All way along was full of fields of coconut trees, mangos overhanging so stopped a couple of times thought theyll do for me lunch! elephants drinking at side of river just rode past as though its everyday sight!
Got back with a nice vest burn line which looked reeeeealllly smart!Had dinner at night for 3 nights running at the Tai Thai.You could have a plate of meat with rice, 2 bottles of water,then a curry and rice all for 70baht! like just over a quid! so went there few nights running it was crazy to see dishes like fresh shrimp or lobster there for 30pence.
Woke up the next morning decided to take a bus to Sai Yok,as this place was where the Erawan Waterfalls,The tiger temple and Sai Yok Nai waterfalls.

My ride to bus station

Sat on the back of the bus with a lad who wouldnt stop talking called Witchaya Maneengam......but said his mates called him "yo!" for short.

Yo!

The bus was rammed and was sitting next to the window when a monk got on the bus and beckoned me to let him have the seat so he could be by the window. Yo nodded so gave the seat up!asked for a photo with him but they are quite funny about photographs but he did smile, the thai lad just didnt catch it when taking the photo!

With Monk

Got dropped outside a waterfall in what seemed the middle of nowhere.Asked a policeman where there were guest houses and he arranged for me to get on the back of a locals motorbike(for 50baht)With my massive rucksac balanced both on this 125 we go speeding off down this track thought we were both gonna fly off as my back pack was weighing to one side every time we cornered.
After getting dropped off at these huts by a pier at 10am with the sun blazing, i ask some blokes who say no theres no houses around here!? GREAT!
so backpack weighing a ton,tired and with the sun blazin have to walk the 2 miles back to the road from where i'd come,getting followed by barking packs of dogs all the way.
Jump on the back of ANOTHER motorbike and after 3 no rooms check into this little place for 250bht with a squatting toilet and ants nest in the shower.After all the walking though couldnt be bothered!

Beware the monkeys!

I asked the woman who owns the hotel where i can hire motorbike from, she laughs and points to hers for 200baht?! So decided to go and find the Tiger Temple i'd seen on SKY last year where the monks walk around with full grown tigers