Erwan Waterfalls!!!

---

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, in which lots of fish like to suck on your feet...feels very weird!!!
We then had a local Thai family make us a 3 course meal which was delicious and really suited our "furang's" taste (furangs - what Thai people call white people).
After that we hopped back into the mini-bus for another hour before arriving at THE ELEPHANT PARK. The park is only 40km from the Burma boarder so the people that lived in the village there and who run the park were all Burmese...Really lovely people, love to sing!!!!!!!!
Wow was that an experiance, will definalty be doing that again.
Next we got on bamboo rafts which were towed up the river Kwai by a speed boat, before being uphooked, given owe's and left to paddle/float with current, back down again...very cool!!!!
We then had about half an hour in the local village to have a shop around in their market, before jumping onto the train which runs along the railway famously known as The Death Railway.
We knew lot's about this railway and its history, as we had visited the local musuem the day before in which it had informed us about the 100,000 people that had been forced to build it and died doing so or soon after as POW's in WWII, many were British. The railway was 400km stretching from coast in Burma to the coast at Bangkok, and was built to carry weapons and supplies for the Japanese.
Whole day was stunning!!!

---

Photos

4th Waterfall..Ricky going for a slide!!!
Over time the water has softened the stones so much, that the park keepers have built steps up its side, and offer visiters the option to use it as slide...

The Budda Cave...
Right near the start of Railway Line in a cave...

The Death Railway
Around 5,602 men died building this part of the railway alone!

Comments

[Julia]

Welcome back
Stunning photos from your new location, and lots of history as well. Glad you are back on blog, emails are ok but not like actually seeing you both (Furangs, I like that). TCU XX

[michelle]

hi
hi huni omg the pics r lush it looks like ur having a fab time kep me up 2date lots of love x x

[Sasha]

Helloo guys!
Hello guys! I hope your having a great time :D, well im sure you are, after looking at your pictures you look like your loving it. I've got my scan on monday!! Im soooo excited, and dont worry i will tell you the sex as soon as i find out :) The baby moves around alot now, and im 19 weeks on saturday and getting kinda big now. I hope to hear from you soon, love you both lots from Sasha and the baba xxxxx