After leaving Kanchanaburi, we drove 40km to a Temple called Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua, also known as Tiger Temple.It is basically a monastery but has now become a wildlife reserve caring for all kinds of animals including wild pigs, leopard, bears, goats, buffalo and finally its famous tigers.Story has it that in 1999, the temple received its first tiger cub that had been found by villagers after its mother had been killed by poachers. No-one wanted to care for the c...

On the 3rd of April we took a tour from Bangkok to Kanchanaburi to visit The Bridge over the River Kwai. On our way to the bridge we stopped in Kanchanaburi town to visit the cemetery where there were thousands of graves of the Allied soldiers who died building the River Kwai Bridge.They were brutally forced to do so, when they were taken as prisoners of wars by the Japanese during WWII.The main cemetery with its rows of gravestones was very touching. The ages o...

From Bangkok we took a tour to the ruins of Ayuthuya, the Thai capital from 1359 to 1767, before Thonburi (briefly) and then Bangkok (to this day) took over.The ruins are about two hours by car north of Bangkok, though it should probably take longer but Bangkok drivers are insane and like to use all available parts of the road to save time, including the pavement.Our first stop was Wat Yai Chai Mongkol. The wat dates back to the mid-14th century, when Thai king U...

From Ko Pha-Ngan we took an overnight bus to Bangkok. The journey was about 13 hours and when we arrived we jumped into a taxi so we could reach our hotel for a well earned rest. Unfortunately our taxi driver didn't have a clue where our hotel was even though he said he did when he took the fare and we drove round and round in circles for about 30 minutes. We could see the driver was getting a little irate. He was a small old Thai fella who sat very close to ...

After spending one night in Krabi we began our journey to Ko Pha-Ngan. We had already learnt that travelling in Thailand was never straight forward. Even though they tell you its only one air-conditioned bus its never true. In this case we were picked up from Krabi in a truck where all the travellers sat in the back in the open air with their backpacks. Needless to say it was very cramped and a little scary when going around corners. After this we were transferre...