Today we packed an overnight bag and headed out down to the river to catch a raft house for the day and evening. The raft house is basically 2 big flat open plan rafts, one for sleeping on and the other is for eating in and the disco in the evening all being towed by a tiny noisy little boat. Once on board we headed down stream to our first stop, the Wat Baan Thum temple.The Cave Temple of the Golden Dragon is set in limestone foothills, and is located about 5k...

Today's outing was in a taxi, a converted pickup truck with bench seats in the back for 2 hours. The air-conditioning was basically the wind in your face as the taxi drove at 60 miles an hour along the main roads. As you can imagine this got quite annoying after a while. The only good thing about the trip was that the journey was broken up in to two as we had a stopover at the Death Railway museum, which showed the relics and photos of how the POW’s ...

I don't learn! Hangovers and boat trips don't mix. Maybe I should pay more attention to the trip schedule before I go out drinking!First thing this morning we had breakfast at the hotel, left our bags at reception and then headed out on a 30 minute boat trip along Chao Phraya River. The first stop was just outside a temple where there were thousands of fish that "belonged" to the monks at the temple and it was forbidden to fish this stretch of the rive...