Kanchanaburi 30 Oct

Spent the day with Megan, Terry, Jonnie, Peggy and John on an all day excusion to a number of tourist destinations along the River Kwai. 

We left the hotel at about 08:00 and first went to the Sai Yak Noi Waterfall. 

We then went to the Hot Spa at the Hin Dat Hot Spring (Peggy & John left us here to go Elephant riding and Bamboo rafting.  The 3 of us enjoyed both the hot spring and relaxing in the cooling river beside.  The hot spring was hot!! 








After we had lunch (when Peggy & John rejoined us) we then went to the Hellfire Pass and Memorial Museum which demonstrated the extreme hardships and brutality which the POW's suffered under the Japanese while building the Thailand to Burma railway. 

 

We then went to the Krasae Cave (used as a hospital at a POW camp) and the wooden railway bridge.  The trains were not running (water problems in Bangkok I think), so we walked across the wooden bridge instead. 

Finally we returned to Kanchanaburi to walk across the famous Bridge over the River Kwai.