We took a 3 day trip up to Kanchanaburi, which is about 2 hours west of Bangkok. It’s known mostly because it has the river Kwai running through it – which is well known from the WWII movie, The Bridge Over the River Kwai. We traipsed over the bridge (it made me nervous – it was very open to the river, below, which was running fast due to the rainy season), saw some interesting WWII cemetaries and memorials, trekked through the jungle, saw some neat Wats (temples) – one of which was in a cave, hiked up what must have been 1000 steps straight uphill to go in another neat cave (through Leah and Nate chickened out when they saw that the entrance was a two foot wide slit in the rocks, entering into a dark dark cavern), and visited Erawan Falls, a beautiful 7 tiered waterfall in one of Thailand’s big national parks. It was fun to get out of town for a long weekend and see some different parts of Thailand!
And, as you'll see, we took a lot of pictures! These ones are of some neat temples right near the river - one is even in a cave, and another is on a hilltop looking over the valley - pretty! There's also a shot of the monks' laundry hanging out to dry - I just thought it was funny to see that side of monks!
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