Bangkok, River Kwai and Chiang Mai

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Sorry for the delay in updating this, but I’ve been getting up to a lot recently, not to mention not having cheap net connections.

Saturday was a day trip out of Bangkok to the Bridge over the River Kwai, as made famous in the film of the same name. Ok you can whistle the tune if you want. A 2 hour coach trip ended at the very informative Death Railway museum and allied war cemetery (sorry no pictures of either) followed by a visit to the bridge itself. The two centre spans (rectangular) are post war, but the rest is original. There was then an hour long train journey, sadly not over the bridge itself though, followed by lunch and a boat ride before heading back to Bangkok.

Yesterday was spent on the train from Bangkok to Chiang Mai – a mere 12 hour journey, so apart from checking into the hotel and a quick meal, that was it.

Having looked at the options, I decided to get dirty this afternoon by taking an off-road buggy trip into the mountains, which I ended up as a group of one, luckily it wasn’t any more expensive doing it that way. Although the trip was advertised as having a chance to have a swim at a waterfall, one look at the water was enough to dissuade me.

Tomorrow is just as adventurous, but less muddy, white water rafting.