 | Kanchanaburi is even hotter than Bangkok!
2009-04-04, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: aimee | | Yes, it's true, it's even hotter here but we're braving through it! We walked about 9km to a cave temple in the hottest part of the day (it didn't look that far on the map) but it was worth it - John ... |
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 | Ashley's version of the "Nice Guy" story
2009-01-26, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: 2sultans | | Since I have time here in the airport I will tell you guys the story that I breifly mentioned in an earlier posting, you know the story where I thought we were all going to be stewed in large vats of ... |
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 | Kanchanaburi
2009-01-23, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: 2sultans | | Just wanted to give you all a quick update that all is well here and we will try to call soon. We just arrived in Kanchanaburi after spending 14 hours on a sleeper train from Chaing Mai than another 4... |
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 | The Bridge over the River Kwai .....
2008-12-30, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: cbr600f | | ..... That isn't over the River Kwai - never has been a Bridge over the River Kwai !! .... I have cut and paste this little titbit from a website ...
"The Bridge over the River Kwai gained worldwid... |
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 | Kanchanaburi
2008-11-20, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: rossnkaren | | This place was the site of the Bridge over the River Kwai. We stayed in a little bungalow just off the main river, over one of its tributaries. It was a little rustic, with one of those toilets that... |
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 | Tiger Temple
2008-01-04, kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: smithy2006 | | This is a place that everyone should visit if they are in Thailand... very touristy but a unique experience, it's not every day you get to play with a tiger cub!
It's not just the experience of tou... |
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 | Floating Markets and Snakes!
2008-08-10, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: SilverAsia | | Having one free day in Bangkok before heading to my village to visit, we decided to take a tour of Kanchanaburi which is about an hour and a half from Bangkok.
We met a nice Australian/Irish guy wh... |
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 | Elephants and Bamboo Rafting
2008-01-03, kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: smithy2006 | | The First trip we booked ourselves was a Elephant, Bamboo Rafting, Waterfall Swimming, Cave Walking, Death Railway Combo... yes we fitted it all in to 1 day, quite a mission but a great laugh!
The ... |
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| Trip to Kanchanaburi
2008-01-02, kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: smithy2006 | | The day didn't start well for the back packing Mum and Son partnership... we thought we had given ourselves enough time to get to the train station for 9:30, but the traffic was so horendous, that we ... |
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 | Allied War Cemetary
2008-02-06, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: bennicci | | Hi all,
Just a short one today as we are about to hop on a bus to Bangkok. Our time in Kanchanaburi has come to an end and we are both glad we came here. It arrives in one hour (13:30).
This morni... |
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 | Seeing the sights of Kanchanaburi
2008-02-05, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: bennicci | | Hello all,
Sorry about the late entry but the internet connection was playing up last night. All the fire crackers from Chinese New Year must have fried a circuit board or something...
YESTERDAY..... |
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 | Tiger Temple!
2008-02-04, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: bennicci | | Hello all and welcome back to our wacky SE Asia Adventure. Today, unlike every other day, we actually made the free breaky. Now i don't know what you would call this journal, but the breakfast was not... |
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 | Lost in limbo....
2008-02-03, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: bennicci | | Welcome all again to our SE Asia adventure, and god we had one today...
The morning started off like any other in Khao Sahn Road, missed breaky as usual (much to nic's disappointment).... We decide... |
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 | Kanchenaburi
2007-06-24, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: dryan787 | | This past weekend, I journey to Kanchenaburi with my buddies Colin, Meg, and Kathleen to visit the sight of a a POW WWII camp near the River Kwai bridge. Supposedly, Thailand was unofficially sided wi... |
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 | Day Tour!
2007-06-16, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: saffa2 | | Today we embraced by some of Thaland's most magnificant features.
We decided upon booking a scenery tour, and kicked off with a trip to Erawan Waterfalls, about one hour drive from the guest house.... |
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 | Wild Days
2007-06-15, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: saffa2 | | We got off to a very early, but quite delayed morning today. We awoke at 6am to meet our driver and make our way to Kanchanaburi.
This stunning part of Thailand is well known for it's "wild beauti... |
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 | 'Bout time
2007-04-25, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: tannerscot | | Alright, so I've been moving around a bit lately and haven't had anything noteworthy to spout off about. I spent a couple of days in Chumpon in the south, then hung around Bangkok for a few days and s... |
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 | Fun, Fighting and big Fury Fings....
2007-01-21, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: lyndz | | Well readers, we’ve certainly packed in a lot this week and it’s definitely time to board a bus to the Island of Ko Phi Phi, (where the film The Beach was filmed) for some much needed sun worshipping.... |
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 | Bridge over river Kwai
2006-10-23, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: wilsol01 | | Well our first experience of a Thai bus wasn't all that bad although I think we were on what is classed as 1st class. Ok as long as you didn't go in the toilet. Mind you the same can be said for some ... |
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 | nibbling fish, angry monkeys, and purring tigers
2006-10-03, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: tamtam31 | | The entire group decided to climb the famous Erawan waterfalls as our morning activity. Two busses shuttled us into the national park an hour from our hotel, where we found out the prices for admissi... |
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 | Adventures on the River Kwai
2006-10-02, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: tamtam31 | | I awoke somewhat disoriented and confused and the foot of Nat's bed this morning, head pounding from too much alcohol. Or perhaps from too many strange visuals from the night before, I couldn't be su... |
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 | Kanchanaburi
2006-05-12, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: jag | | Well I’ve just spend the last couple of days in Kanchanaburi which is 100km or so west of Bangkok. The town is famous for having the original 'bridge on the river Kwai', a temple of tigers and the Era... |
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 | 6 days 5 nights in Kanchanaburi.
2006-03-15, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: marieoeva | | From Bangkok we headed for Kanchanaburi. Where the Bridge over the River Kwai is. It was amazing. We were there for 6 days! First day we got there in the afternoon. Took it easy and went to the night... |
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 | Living in luxury along the river kwai
2005-12-05, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: socrates | | We flew into Bangkok from a local Thai airways flight from Krabi. From the airport it was a taxi to the bus station and a bus out to Kanchanaburi town. It was the weekend of the Thai king’s birthday a... |
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 | Your Favorite Miss Universe Look-a-like
2005-10-05, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: Exploring | | It's been rainy, rainy, rainy since yesterday, which I love. It's so much cooler than when it's dry. This is the rainy and hot season.
Yesterday, I felt like caca. I decided to cheer myself up with... |
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| How much money did the US buy Alaska for?
2005-10-04, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: Exploring | | Does anyone know how much money the US bought Alaska for? These are the types of questions that are thrown my way. I barely know where Washington, D.C. is, much less the more in depth questions. Thank... |
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| Working my way South.
2005-10-03, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: Exploring | | Some time has elapsed since I last wrote, so I'll have to make this a bit longer.
I traveled south from Chiang Mai on an extremely rainy day. A typhoon/tropical storm came over from Vietnam to La... |
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 | A spot of history and nature
2005-09-05, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: roh | | When we arrived in town we went straight to a guesthouse right on the river Kwai about a hundred meters from the infamous bridge. The river itself is a deep green and the banks turn quickly into thick... |
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 | Creepy Crawlies....
2004-08-05, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: aussie_msc | | The next morning we all had to be up early to get a taxi to the train station. The driver we had was so funny, but the only things we could understand him saying were ‘shopping’ and ‘singing’. The new... |
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 | Saying Goodbye
2005-07-20, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: cmccarthy | | Our last day with the children at the orphanage school has come and gone. It is amazing how fast our time here has passed. The kids have a holiday this weekend so those with parents or extended fami... |
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| The Dance
2005-07-16, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: cmccarthy | | The excitement of the students had been rising all day. That's right, tonight was the big school dance! At 6:15 sharp, the gym flooded with students from every dorm. The boys sat in neat rows on on... |
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| Getting in the Groove
2005-07-11, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: cmccarthy | | We have successfully finished our first week of teaching. We would have to say that we are the best volunteer english teachers that Thailand has ever seen. At least that is what our host Mama Noi te... |
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| Posting Messages for Us and Food
2005-07-07, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: cmccarthy | | Just to answer some quick questions. We didn't realize that you have the capabilities to write in our guestbook or send us an email. Either one is fine, we can recieve both so it's completely up to ... |
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| Our First Day of School
2005-07-04, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: cmccarthy | | Yesturday, we were picked up by our host, Anchara, or Mama Noi as she likes to be called. Along with her were several of our future students, ranging n age from 14-19. We all piled into the van and ... |
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| Jumpee and Jumpa
2005-07-05, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: cmccarthy | | Today was our second day of teaching at the orphanage. ONly two english teachers are provided by the government along with one other staff person to help them but her english is very poor. We defina... |
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| Happy Birthday Jill
2005-07-03, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: cmccarthy | | Happy Birthday Jill. Here's your birthday edition of our travel journal!!! We have finally arrived in Kanchanaburi after a busy couple of days in Bangkok. This afternoon we met our host mother (Mam... |
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 | War memorials and amazing waterfalls
2005-04-18, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: FrancesK | | In Kanchanaburi we were picked up by the Samlor’s (bicycle with carriage that seats one person) and taken on a tour of the area. First stop was the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery where hundreds of our Aust... |
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 | Riding Elephants!
2005-05-08, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: jem_jeff | | We spent the day in Kanchanaburi where we got to see the Bridge over the River Kwai and also swim in the river. We rode elephants and took a bamboo raft ride! Then we got to see Tigers and other anima... |
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 | Time to enter the menagerie
2003-10-22, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: katiepops | | Kanchanaburi is nice sized town bout 2 and half hours north west form Bangkok has lots of little guesthouses down on the River Kwai to stay in. We stayed in a couple, left first one because was little... |
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 | Group trip
2004-08-05, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: rande | | Ed and I took a 3 day trip to Kanchanaburi which is where you would find the Bridge over the River Kwai. It’s east of Bangkok - a 2 hour drive. 10 teachers rented a van and hired a driver for the du... |
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 | The Bridge over the River Kwai
2003-02-17, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. By: scottyg | | 17th Feb, Arrived in Kanchanaburi after a long, long
train ride from Chiang Mai. Although we had a short
stop in Bangkok while we waited for the train, we'd
travelled for about 20 hours in total. ... |
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