9/12/09 Kanchanabari to Bangkok We woke early to visit the Kanchanabari War Cemetery and museum before leaving for Bangkok. We asked the reception what time we needed to check out and she said 7!! We asked her to type it into the calculator and the number she meant was 11 !! We had originally booked a minibus to Bangkok leaving at 9am but had changed the time to 11 am so we had a couple of hours. We went to the cemetery and were pleased to find it really quiet a...

7/12/09 Kanchunaburi (River Kwai) We had wanted to travel to Kanchanaburi to see the Death Railway, The River Kwai Bridge and also to see a sound and light show at the Kwai Bridge, a huge reenactment of the bridges history. A taxi collected us at 6.45am for the ride to Bangkoks Southern bus station a 20 minute ride away. When we got there Liz waited with the bags and Phil went to get the tickets. A few people asked Liz if she needed any help as she was stood wit...

5/12/09 Happy Birthday King Bhumibol Adulyadej We woke up and packed ready to wait for the 10 am taxi to arrive. Phil had arranged a taxi the previous day with Mr Whiskey but when we saw him he said the tuk tuk would be there soon. We had already agreed a price to go in a taxi but Mr Whiskey said the tuk tuk would be the same. Phil argued with him about getting all our stuff in a tuk tuk and we wanted a taxi . Mr Whiskey got quite stroppy then and said a tuk tuk...

3/12/09 Mr Ton Chiang Mai tour We met Mr Ton while we were finishing breakfast in the hotel at 9 am. We went to his truck and climbed in the back for the drive out to the elephant camp. The Maesa elephant camp is home to about 78 elephants from nursery juveniles to a 55 year old. The elephants there are trained with individual mahouts to do all sorts of tricks, play games, paint and various logging tasks to demonstrate their intelligence to audiences in a show. ...

29/11/09 Mr Ton Tour Day One We woke up at 5am as we had to check out at 6 to meet Mr Ton. When we woke up a nearby nightclub we could hear when we went to bed was still banging out dance tunes!! Phil thought it was the Monks being called to pray. The reception was closed and the place in darkness so we couldn't get our clothes back. Phil had no clothes he wanted to wear on a trek so we waited until 6.45 when reception opened and the clothes were ready thankfull...