On day 7 we left Bangkok and hopped on a bus headed for Kanchanaburi. It's a province about two hours west of Bangkok. Arriving Kanchanaburi we grabbed a "taxi", which was nothing more than a pickup truck with two benches on the bed, and set off to our hotel for the next two nights. The hotel was a BIG and beautiful place, BUT, we must have been the only two guests that place had seen in quite a while. It took us a good 5 minutes to get from the lobby to our room, and whenever we were out of the room we had most of the staff follow our every move. Slightly creepy :) After we got settled in, we got another taxi to take us somewhere we could rent a bike. We got ourselves
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