So an early start for our first day trip out of Bangkok - nearly took us to the border again so lots of driving. Our first stop was the famous floating markets just outside the city, where we took no hesitation in hiring ourselves a shallow boat with steering lady and head off around the stalls. Although we didn't buy anything (about 4 times the price of anywhere else in Thailand!) it was a very sedate way to spend the morning. Then it was all the way up to Kanchanaburi which is the location of a certain famous river with a certain famous bridge over it. So we crossed the Thai on the railway bridge (rebuilt after Allies wiped it out in WWII) and Stu visited the War and Death Railway Museum complete with display of POW remains found in mass graves just out the railway. They reckon 1 person died for every sleeper laid on the railway, which runs from Bangkok across to Burma, and the vast majority were Asians, with a very significant number of British. Australians only lost about 30,000 and the Americans 5,000 prisoners which goes to emphasis the huge number of deaths talking about. The museum also had life size figures of all the major world leaders in the war with a short life history, which was very well presented. Last stop was very different again - a Tiger Temple where wild animals come to be fed by the monks each day. The tigers are not exactly wild (they lay there and let you pat them, and we walked them back to their cages like dogs at the end of the day) but they are making efforts to put together an infrastructure so that the next generation of tigers they breed can be trained to be returned to the wild. Lots of love from the place where Tigers detest the colour pink! Stu and Mel x