We met our trekking group at 9am, they were Jenny, Georgina, Tom, Joe, 2 French people that we didn't really talk to, and Date, our guide. We drove to a local market for a few supplies before heading to a waterfall where we swam. Sticking your head under the water was what I imagine being hit by a sledgehammer would be like, just constantly. We only stayed about 15 minutes before heading to the national park where we saw the hot springs and started our trek. The ...

So the Death Railway trip didn't go quite as planned. Waking up at a reasonable time we decided to take the bus to Nam Tok, where we could carry on and go to the Hellfire Pass Memorial and then ride the train back to Kanchanaburi. However, arriving at the bus station, we asked a few people which bus to get on, so we hopped on, and arrived 2 hours later in a small town next to a National Park, which was 60km away from where we wanted to be! There could still have ...

I seem to be posting these a lot more often than I had planned, but we are in this little town called Kanchanaburi, most famous for being the town and POW camp situated next to the Bridge Over the River Kwai, but everything is now closed and it is too early for dinner. Yesterday, I felt the wrath of the tourist scams, though managing to get away unscathed. With Will still recovering from his rather large consumption of various drinks the night before, I preceded...

I seem to be posting these a lot more often than I had planned, but we are in this little town called Kanchanaburi, most famous for being the town and POW camp situated next to the Bridge Over the River Kwai, but everything is now closed and it is too early for dinner. Yesterday, I felt the wrath of the tourist scams, though managing to get away unscathed. With Will still recovering from his rather large consumption of various drinks the night before, I preceded...

We left Ko Samui, getting on a boat then a coach to the train station. We caught the overnight sleeper train to Bangkok, which left at 6.30pm. The train starts with seats down either side, then later in the evening, the seats become one bed and the top bunk folds down from the ceiling, it is like a big dorm.We arrived early in the morning at a train station we couldn't find on the map. We grabbed a taxi to Khao Sahn Road, the backpackers haven and managed to find...