Just let it go I didn't plan to write much for today but there is always a story! Two couples from Sheffield were staying in the same hotel as us and had hired a minibus back to Bangkok. The hotel owner Dennis had arranged for us to go back with them for the same price as the public bus. That made the journey back more comfortable, and meant we stopped for a break. I had booked a hotel close to the airport in Bangkok to make it easier to leave the next morning...

Elephants Part 2 Long before we knew about Laos and the elephant experience, Tash had seen a sanctuary you could visit close to Kanchanaburi. We decided to book onto it (a whole day this time) and it cost about $40. It was a 30 minute journey from our hotel to the elephants. They have 16 elephants in the camp, that have been worked hard logging and then in the trekking industry. It was interesting to find out that you shouldn't really sit on an elephants back a...

Hellfire Pass 20 minutes back into town got us to the bus station. We then sat on a local bus (probably for about 30 minutes) before it was full enough to leave. The hour journey took about 2 hours, in typical asian form (picking up passengers and boxes along the way, and dispatching them somewhere else on the journey). We had reached the Hellfire Pass Museum, which was part of the death railway line (Thailand - Burma) instructed by the Japanese during World Wa...

Kan-chana-wotsit We left the hotel at 6:45 am to get the hotel shuttle to the sky train. 8 stops on the train got us to 'Victory Monument' where we sat in a minibus waiting to leave for about 45 minutes. A 2.5 hour drive later we were in the west of Thailand, in Kanchanaburi close to the Myanmar border, and a further 20 minutes in a 'taxi' got us to our hotel. Driving into Kanchanaburi felt like we had arrived in the Thai countryside, and felt more appealing th...

The palace is closed We chose a hotel without breakfast as we had very little time in the city and thought it would be better to get something out. A skytrain and then a metro journey got us nearer to the ferry terminal that we needed to be at. A tuk-tuk driver offered us a good price to take us to the location, but it turns out he actually took us to his mate further up the road who sells highly inflated boat tours (classic scam). We refused and headed towards ...