TRAVEL: Thailand, Kanchanaburi

Day 2 in Thailand. From Ayutthaya we drove about 2,5 hours to the west to the jungle province of Kanchanaburi. If you think Bangkok has extreme temperatures, visit Kanchanaburi! It was indescribably hot!

We spend our nights in a floating jungle hotel without any source of electricity. Oil lamps for the win baby! The water for the shower was heated up by the sun and our food was cooked on gas. This was such an amazing and unforgetable experience and I'm so glad I did it!

I stayed in Kanchanaburi for 2 days, and payed a visit to the Hellfire pass, the bridge over the river kwai, the war cemeteries, the jeath war museum, the erawan waterfalls and I went to an elephant village! And in Kanchanaburi I met some cute little monkeys, which was a dream coming true.

Warning, picture overload!!!


Bridge over the river Kwai (a.k.a. death railway)

Bridge over the river Kwai

Death railway

River Kwai

Elephant Village

Kissy kissy from this darling elephant

Riding the elephant

Swimming with the elephants (and washing them, eventually)

Swimming

Our floating jungle hotel

Oil lamps FTW!

Tropical rainshower

Jungle beauties

Hellfire pass. Felt really sad for all those people.

Erawan Waterfalls

Erawan national park

Meeting a cute new little friend on my way to the waterfalls

Even more hiking

And even more little jungle friends

I absolutely loved Kanchanaburi. Even though it was way too hot despite of the heavy rain showers. Kanchanaburi has so much to offer. It was a strange yet great experience to visit those places where so many people have suffered and died (bridge over the river kwai and the hellfire pass). The elephant ride was something I will never forget, I truly love those animals. And to make some things clear: this was actually a good elephant village, where they threat the animals good. I do agree elephants should be live in the wild though.

If you would like to visit Kanchanaburi, spend your night in the river kwai jungle rafts. This is the hotel without electricity.