Today is Erawan Falls. This is a National Park out from Kanchanaburi that has a fairly spectacular waterfall over 7 levels. We got a taxi after some bartering, 1000 baht return. The drive is just under an hour. We walked through the first level and at the second level there was a sign to watch out for the vicious monkeys. At the third level they mark any water bottles and you pay a deposit. This has kept the park really clean which is quite refreshing. The kids couldn't wait any longer, and went swimming in the next waterhole. There was an [View Full Entry]

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Its off to Kanchanaburi. We need to get to Bangkok Noi Railway station. At first the taxi doesn't know where it is, but after a bit of discussion we get it cleared up. Six of us pile into the Corolla or whatever it is and head off. At 6.50 am there is not too much traffic fortunately, and the trip is only about 15 minutes. There is a huge Fruit and Vegetable market at the train station, and we are stuck in traffic which has Corry and Christine a little fretful. Got the tickets and Isabella, Liam, Harry and I head [View Full Entry]

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Hey everyone, So here is another quick update on how things are. so yesterday afternoon we caught a cab to the train station called thonburi which is the only train station that our train stops at to take us to kanchanaburi which is north west of bangkok.about 2 hours away. So we left the guest house in bangkok and got a cab. The driver had bad english but said yes and seemed to get the idea of where we wanted to go.we were running late as it was so needed him to go a bit faster. Traffic was so bad and [View Full Entry]

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We decided to head out to Kanchanaburi, a couple of hours west of Bangkok to experience a different part of Thailand. We successfully tackled Thai public transport by hailing a taxi (putting hand out, palm down and moving right and left over and over) very informative darling then worked out how to buy a bus ticket in the bus station but found that we were stared at a lot! I couldn’t understand why people turned to look at us but Matt pointed out that it was probably because we are actually the whitest people in Asia it seems. We are definitely [View Full Entry]

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So after feeling a little down due to Lyndsey and Helens departure we pulled ourselves together and planned the next leg of our Thailand adventure towards Kanchanaburi. We flagged a taxi and asked him to take us to Thanburi train station, we ended up at the wrong station but soon got directions from a tuk tuk driver and were on our way to the real station. i was stressing out as we didnt leave early enough and the minutes were ticking away. We arrived at the station at with 3 minutes to spare. Craig paid the driver whilst i ran to [View Full Entry]

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The day which we had been eagerly anticipating had finally come and it was tough to hide the gleeful smile on my face as I looked forward to our stay in Thailand. The trip was supposed to provide some respite after months in NS and also marked the beginning of the end of our National Service stint. With me, Jordan, Luke and Mark made up the Gang of Four. We had decided to visit Kanchanaburi and the nations capital, Bangkok. Possessing a keen interest in history, we chose Kanchanaburi due to the areas significance in World War Two when thousands of [View Full Entry]

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So ich habe diesen Blog nicht vergessen! Nur jedesmal haben die PC irgendein Problem die Bilder hochzuladen...so auch dieses mal. Aber ich will euch natuerlich auf dem laufen halten. Es ist ja ne ganze Menge Zeit vergangen und ich bin auch ne Menge rumgekommen. Beim letzten Eintrag war ich ja bereits in Malaysia, Kota Baru. Ich habe mich da einem Londoner und nem Kanadier aus Vancouver angeschlossen und bin per Speedboot nach Perenthian Kecil (small) Island. War sehr nett dort, nur das Essen und die Preise kamen lange nicht an das gute alte Thailand ran. Ich hatte vor dort nochmal richti [View Full Entry]

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All we can say is wow wow wow... After having our bag stolen with our camara, earphones and south east asia lonely planet book in it, we DEFINALTY needed this to cheer us up... Our day started by getting picked up at 8 in the morning and taken straight to the Erwan Waterfalls National Park whcih boasts 6 amazing waterfalls, all of which you can swin in and are breath taking. The Park also has a large family of monkeys ooh ohh ahh ahh ... We trecked high up into the mountains and swam in the river Kwai's crystal clear water, [View Full Entry]

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(I finally found a place to develop some of the photos but they are not the best quality. Better than none though! So this is the updated version!!) We were picked up at 8am to go for our tour to see a seven tiered waterfall, visit Hellfire pass and take a spin on the train over the Death Railway. Our trip would take over and hour to get to Erwan falls so we just watched the fantastic scenery and caught up on some sleep. There were four others on the tour, a couple from Australia and a couple on their honeymoon [View Full Entry]

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Wow can't believe we're in SUCH an amazing place...We're right on the river Kwai here, in our own tiny little hut...sooo cool!!! Its a really chilled out place here, a lot more quiter that the hustle and bustle in Bangkok!!! They have the best Thai food here, and sitting on a jetty over the river Kwai eating the Thai cusine with the mountains in the background takes some beating!!! Have just booked our first day tour for this Monday coming, it will consist of : Elephant ride - Bamboo Rafting - Lunch - Earwin Waterfalls - The Death Train CANNOT WAIT!!!!!! [View Full Entry]

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