Monday, 28 June 2010

Kanchanaburi

I met up with my tour group from i-to-i and Real Gap on Friday (1oth June) and spent just 1 day in the capital seeing the sights. We looked around the Grand Palace and 2 temples before visiting Koh San Road in the evening to sample some Thai Buckets!

After this whistle stop tour we journeyed to Kanchanaburi - a town about 2 hours to the west of Bangkok. Here we (my tour group of 22) stayed in an awesome resort with a pool and little bunaglows overlooking the River Kwai.


View from my bunglow

Monday (14th June) was spent at Erawan Waterfalls. There was 7 levels along a walk of about 1 hour. Each was different in size a shape but all stunning. We jumped in the pool at the 7th and swam with little fishes that nibbled our feet! At the 4th we slide down rock slides into a really deep pool - great fun!

Erawan Waterfall - Level 4

On Wednesday we went to another waterfall at Sai Yok, but this time the water was too low for swimming. Instead we went exploring a cave fun of bats and spiders! Not sure why anyone would want to do that, the caverns inside were pretty big and impressive but I don't think I'd go again! In Kanchanaburi I also had a Thai cooking lesson, a Thai massage and learnt to meditate with a Thai Monk! The massage was amazing and I intend to have several more.

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