Kanchanaburi

Sunday 10th - Monday 12th September 2017

Sunday 

It took a couple of hours on the bus to get to Kanchanaburi, and our tour guide, Nutty, was telling us heaps of stuff about Thailand. She liked to tell us which fruit was 'alkaline' and 'good for your body' and also tried to fob us off with how delicious durian fruit is but it smells like sick so I don't believe her! Our first stop was at a cemetery for some of the poisoners of war that died when the railway from Thailand - Burma was being built during the Second World War. I went round the museum with a few others and it was really interesting. It's so crazy how the war effected literally the whole world and we only learn about a fraction of it at school. It's really made me want to look into it even more! After that we headed to check out the bridge over the river Kwai which was pretty cool apart from being bitten by thousands of mozzies! I swear they can sniff me out miles away! Afterward we went down to a wee port that reminded me of the one we went to to get to Robinson Crusoe Island. It was about a ten minute boat ride down to our resort and it is honestly the coolest place I have ever stayed in in my life! It's called Jungle Rafts hotel and it is literally that - a hotel on rafts on the river in the jungle. We didn't have long until dinner so we chilled out a bit - there's no electricity here so we had little oil lamps and led candles which was super cute. Dinner was amaaaazing (and included so win win!) and was served 'family style'. After dinner most of us chilled out on the deck with a few drinks, I still had a huge headache so only had the one and then went to bed at 10ish - not that there was much point! I didn't get much sleep as even after the others went to bed the river and insects were so noisy! 

Monday

Woke up at 6am but I didn't actually get up until 7ish. The local village that looks after he resort has an elephant that they brought by to feed. I've got such mixed feelings about it as it isn't looked after in the best way, but it seemed happy and was very keen to have the food! After breakfast Nutty took us to the local village, and we saw the wee temple and school, as well as the elephant again! It was so hot so when we got back I went for a swim in the river with a few others. It was so refreshing! I was a tad worried about the current but it was manageable thank god! We had 'brunch' at 11 which was basically a huge meal and super delicious again. We then grabbed the boat back to the bus before setting off to the national park to see the Erawan waterfalls. It was so pretty! There were seven levels in total, I only went to the fourth one as the plan was just to have a swim and relax there for a bit before going back to the coach. This was not the case, there were so many fish in there that eat dead skin so they wouldn't stop biting you unless you were moving around! So after about fifteen minutes I decided I'd had enough, got out and went back to level one as there were less fish there!