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Kanchanaburi - Raft Guest Houses

Kanchanaburi - Raft Guest Houses, now some like the "Sugar Cane Guest House 2" at 7 Soi Cambodia, Kanchanaburi, have rafts from 400 to 550 baht per night, but these are the boring ones, they are just parked up, now a good one is "Pathomporn", this one charges 800baht for a raft house boat for the night, the good thing about this is instead of arranging treks and all that rubbish and having to sort out what you need to take for the day, this one just tows the bar and restaurant to where ever you want to go along the River Kwai, and when you get bored of where you are you just get them to tow you somewhere else.

Kanchanaburi - Wat Tum Seu Temple

Kanchanaburi - Wat Tum Seu Temple, well that's how the sign there spells it but I reckon it is actually Wat Tham Sua if it was transliterated correctly, anyway this is four kilometers from the Wachiralongkorn Dam on the Mekhong River, and consist of 2 compounds, a Chinese Temple and a Thai one.

Now this place does make money, this picture they sell you roof tiles which you can sign for good luck, not sure how long the good luck lasts for as I am not sure how long those roof tiles last for.


Kanchanaburi/River Kwai Bridge

Kanchanaburi River Kwai Bridge was started to be built on the 16th of September 1942, the Japanese Engineers estimated it would take 5 years to build the bridge and the connecting railway to supply there troops in Burma going through the 3 Pagodas Pass, it was completed in 16 months, this was due mainly to the 61,000 prisoners of war of which about 16,000 of them died and around 200,000 Asian forced helpers, out of this lot just over 49,000 died due to disease etc, 21 months after it had been finished we bombed the fok out of it and crippled it.

The bridge was actually shipped over from Java to be assembled here.

They still have some of the old trains there and it has a load of restaurants and souvenier stalls to buy trinkets.

Also there are a few guest houses around this area starting from the 150baht per night range and raft restaurants and accomodation.


Kanchanaburi Tiger Temple

Kanchanaburi Tiger Temple is actually about 40km from Kanchanaburi and about 6km from Saiyok, so I really don't understand why it is called Kanchanburi Tiger Temple, the original Temple is about a mile down the road and now they got some land to build their dreams, which don't involve a Temple, They got some Yankee gal and some other farang bird in there trying to get the money in.

Entrance to the Kanchanaburi Tiger Temple is 300baht and it closes at 4.30pm, you can get the bus there from Kanchanaburi and then walk the 2km up the road or get a taxi from Kanchanaburi.

So first up you got the walk with the Tigers, basically this comes down to Pra Acharn Phoosit Khantitharo wandering along following a tiger to the canyon, the tiger leads the way, foked if I would teach my Rotties to be the boss and lead the way, this is the time you can stroke the beast if you so wish and they will take your camera and do the photoes of you, and then they come and gouge you, yep, 500baht for a picture of the nasty tigers with their head in your lap or 100baht for stroking the tiger, I mean fok me aint the 300baht entrance fee enough? obviously not.

They got some Yankee girl working there as a tour guide who is basically bored out of her head doing the same shite everyday and thought it would be exciting, and some other English speaking bird who tries to help out.

Anyway as I have loads of pictures of this I shall edit my main post tomorrow.



Kanchanaburi/Jeath War Museum

Kanchanaburi/Jeath War Museum;
Now just to confuse the tourists there are actually 2 Jeath War Museums in Kanchanaburi, this one is about 300 meters from the River Kwai Railway Bridge, the other War Museum is about 3 kilometers away in the grounds of a temple at the junction of the Kwai Yai and Kwai Noi Rivers.

Entrance is 40baht and not a lot is explained and construction work is still going on, the picture of the Antique guns shows that they were locked up so nobody could steal them, but the bombs were just keft laying around on the tables.

On all their signage they had the word "Jeath" on it, this I believe is to try and confuse tourists into thinking this is the proper one when actually it is supposed to be called the "World war 2 Museum.


Kanchanaburi/Chungkai War Cemetery

Kanchanaburi/Chungkai War Cemetery is where they buried all the dead Prisoners of war that were held by the Japanese, this was the base camp for building the railway and the bridge over the River Kwai during world war 2, there are over 1,700 prisoners of war buried here in what used to be the hospital grounds, I think the ones that died while building the bridge, which is about 5kms away were just buried near where they dropped, there is parking for maybe 2 cars and the war cemetery is obviously not visited much as it is quite hard to find, got to admit though it is well kept, not sure who pays for this upkeep though.


Kanchanaburi

Kanchanaburi is arguably the most picturesque province in Thailand. Most famous for the Bridge on the River Kwai and the Death Railway that once traversed the entire length of the province as it wound its way through the jungle up to the Burmese border and beyond. Many tourists travel to Kanchanaburi to visit the historic bridge, the war cemetries and the museums that horrifically depict what life was like for the Allied POW's during WW2.

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