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Published: December 16th 2005
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Kanchanaburi pretty much rools.
I think we were in Phuket the last time I wrote. We weren't keen to be honest. It'd be a lovely place if it weren't for every second business being an Indian tailor who would try and forcibly push you into their shop, and if it were a bit easier to get an actual Thai meal, rather than a hamburger or something Scandinavian.
Anyhoo, we didn't stay long, so not much of a waste, and when we did find proper Thai restaurants, they had really good food.
Flew back to Bangkok on Wednesday, which kind of took half the day because the flight was delayed for a few hours, while we were waiting I heard someone say that this happens with virtually every Air Asia flight. I'll think twice about their cheap tickets in future.
Spent the evening in Bangkok getting a few things organised before Kanchanaburi.
We got the train here yesterday, and we're loving it. The train was all 3rd class, which means big open windows instead of aircon and hard seats. Stuart had a pretty square bum by the end of it, but I've got enough padding, so it
Austraria Road
Each of the countries that had anything to do with the Thai-Burma Railway has a street named after them. This is ours! didn't bother me, and having the open window was fantastic.
It got pretty cold actually, because it was quite a windy day, but we weren't giving up that open window, you don't get that is Sydney or London! It took most of the morning because we left late and sometimes we'd have to spend awhile at a station while the local ladies would race out and sell their little bamboo packages of food to everyone. It's all good.
Our Guesthouse is really nice, and we've done loads here already.
As soon as we arrived we headed off for lunch, and ended up at some little locals joint where there was no menu and nobody spoke english, so we just pointed at something that looked good and it was, and what's more, we both had lunch and a drink for less than a pound!! A very good intro to Kanchanaburi.
Then we went to have a look at the Allied War Cemetary, which was beautifully kept and pretty damn heartbreaking, especially the headstones where family members had had messages to their relative engraved.
A stop for Stuart to buy some little sweet duogh ball things from
a lady in the street and then we headed to the Thailand-Burma Railway Centre. This was so interesting and well laid out, really worth going to if anyone comes here.
What else, what else? Oh yeah the nightmarket!! This is terrific; it's not huge, but we were prettymuch the only Westerners there, so it's really cheap, and apart from clothes and what have you, there's sooo much good looking food! Stuart had a couple of skewers with barbequedsquid, dipped in chilli sauce, and we're going back tonight to fill our boots.
For dinner we didn't want that much, so after me tellinghim for year how good Tom Yum Soup is, Stuart decided to try it in what claimed to be Thailands hottest restaurant. Ha ha ha, it was so funny, he loved it, but you should have seen how red his head was. We though we were used to having our food hot, but at the end the cook told us she put 7 chillies in his soup. Nice one.
Had a pretty good sleep until someone tried opening our door at about a quarter to 6 this morning. When i went to check, there was someone
from the guesthouse charading taking a photo, so in my sleepy state I thought he telling us to take a picture of the river - which our guesthouse is on the banks of - at sunrise. So I found the camera and staggered out onto the balcony in my pyjamas, only to find a lone man with a tripod and camera pointed at me.
When I tried to ask what was going on he didn't really understand, and I'm thinking 'Do they wake all the guests every morning for a group photo or something? Because that's pretty much the wrong side of nuts'
It turns out he was taking photos for the Thai Tourist Authority, and when he told the bloke to turn on the lights in all the rooms that weren't being used, but not to disturb the guests, the bloke misunderstood.
I went back to bed.
This morning we alked about 1/2 an hour up the road to the Bridge over the River Kwai, and started to walk across it. I was doing really well too, until my brain remembered my phobia of heights (it must still be on London time) and then freaked
out. Fortunately there are platforms every 10 metres or so for you to jump onto when the train comes, so I waited there will Jim did the rest of the length and then came back to drag my back to land. Pathetic. I think I'll get some hypnosis when I get home.
We're about to take a trip out to a temple where the Monks look after tigers that have been saved from various things. Supposedly they're tame enough for you to touch. We'll see. We've been told not to wear red though ha ahahahah.
We're onto the bigger memory card now, so it might be a little while before I load any more photos, but we're taking lots.
Oh yeah, this morning I almost trod on a mans head. I thought he was dead, but a man across the road motioned that he'd passed out from the drink. Poor bugger.
Right, I'm off to hang out with some tigers, as you do on a Friday arvo.
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