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Road trip to Kanchanaburi, Krabi and Phuket


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Let's visit the elephants.

Elephant's world is a sanctuary for elephants. No picture painting, no show, no elephant riding or other stupid stuff. You can watch and feed the animals. That's all and I like it that way.

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The dogs were watching over the proper food distribution....or hoping that there would be some nice piece of meat for them in the basket.

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The path is being upgraded, but there are many empty bags and waste thrown around. They should keep it clean during construction.

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Still some obstacles on the new path:

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Getting a bit dangerous here with the wooden remains barely holding up.

 

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Yesssssss, we have made it.

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Okay, nothing spectecular to be seen here. Won't do that climb again.

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12 minutes ago, CampariO said:

Let's visit the elephants.

Elephant's world is a sanctuary for elephants. No picture painting, no show, no elephant riding or other stupid stuff. You can watch and feed the animals. That's all and I like it that way.

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The dogs were watching over the proper food distribution....or hoping that there would be some nice piece of meat for them in the basket.

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Thank you very very much for the shout out to Elephant World. Wonderful place and definitely a recommendation for those younger and more active than us to spend the whole day there. They come and collect you at your hotel and bring you back for free. A Dangleberry family favourite

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The nexts stops were quickly ticked off:

Hin Dad Hot Spring, while a hot spring is nice in a cold country, I can't enjoy it in Thailand. Putting the feet in for a couple of minutes and off we go to have lunch.

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We waited over an hour for a simple meal. During this time the same song was played over and over again on the speaker system of the restaurant. The waitress was too busy with her phone to notice.

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Khao Laem Sky walk was closed. Nothing exting, it wasn't that high. A Sky walk?????

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The Si-Nakharin-Dam is just around the corner. Ok, but I think all dams are the same.

Why I always have an urge to put a bag of dynamite at the foot of the dam?

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Good to see that some of the members are still with me.


The Hellfire Pass is another frequently visited place in Kanchanaburi.
One enters a small building with an exhibition hall and you can obtain an audio system.

Everything is clean and well kept. Amazing.

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Pilok is a subdistrict of Pha Phum in the province Kanchanaburi. Its main settlement, Ban I-tong, is a remote village on the Myanmar border. There were som nice images picturing a romantic village on the net, so it was a must for Mrs. CO to have a visit.

She wasn't so sure anymore when she saw the road conditions for the next 30 km on the navigation screen.

It was pure hell.

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And that was it. A small lake, a couple of houses and guest houses. No proper restaurants or hotels.

There were some tents you could stay in.

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We were hesitating. The idea of doing those 30 km once again wasn't really stimulating, but we finally decided to go back and look for a proper place to sleep.

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The choices were slim, so we took the next place we saw to have a roof over our heads, as there was a storm approaching.

It almost became the last night of our lives.

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[Dramatic background music playing..... sound of thunder  getting louder....]

 

 

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The storm became stronger and closer. Lightning everywhere and torrential rains. We were in the center of a massive tropical storm.

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Suddently the lights went out and there was a loud bang. I thought something fell on our house.

I opened the door but couldn't see much. It was dark and the rain reduced visibility. It looked like a small tree fell on the bungalow next door. As there was nobody living in it, we went back and tried to sleep.

The next morning offered a sight of destruction.

The bungalow next door:

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This was not the only tree that had crashed. A huge ailing tree just in front of our place was split in half and fell on a group of cement buffalows which had now a bad back.

If it had fallen to the other side, it would have hit our roof and I don't think it would have stayed intact.

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The Uttamanusorn-Bridge, also known as Mon-Bridge is a wooden pedestrian bridge in Tambon Nong Lu in Sangkhla Buri, north-west of Kanchanaburi.
At a length of 850 m it is the longesth woodden bridge in Thailand and the second longest in the world.

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We spent another night in Kanchanaburi and then travelled to the south. The night in Prachuap was pretty boring, no night life at all. On google map I found a single pub, but it was closed. Though there were 2 German restaurants.

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We stayed at the Prachuap Grand Hotel.

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Kanchanaburi is one of my favourite places in Thailand.

I've been to most place in your thread, and we have volunteered a few times at Elephant World.

What's on this thread is what i'm more interested in Thailand compared to say Pattaya, but to each their own.

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20 hours ago, CampariO said:

On we go to Tham Krasae at River Quai next to the railroad. If one doesn't have a car, the train is leaving Kanchanaburi at 10:44h, arriving at 12:15 Uhr in Sai Yok. At 16:00h the train is returing and arriving 17:30h in Kanchanaburi.
 

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As a Railway man of 37 years thank you for this photo.

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20 hours ago, CampariO said:

On we go to Tham Krasae at River Quai next to the railroad. If one doesn't have a car, the train is leaving Kanchanaburi at 10:44h, arriving at 12:15 Uhr in Sai Yok. At 16:00h the train is returing and arriving 17:30h in Kanchanaburi.
 

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As a Railway man of 37 years thank you for this photo.

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On 9/25/2021 at 6:36 AM, CampariO said:

Wat Pa Luang ta Maha Bua was famous for all those tigers living there. We didn`t know that it was now closed - no more tigers. There had been some shady deals going on - tigers being secretly sold during nighttime and so on...

Nowadays there are a couple of wild pigs, goats and dears which looked quite pitiful. They are being fed but I don't think anybody is taking proper care. Sad to see.

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That Tiger temple was closed down about 4 years ago or more. Passed it so many times but never felt the need to go in.

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