Headed over to the death railway and bridge over the river Kwai mid morning. It's famous as 100,000's POW's died whilst building the railway and bridge for the Japaneze army during WWII. It was also bombed by the Americans and the Japanese tied all American prisoners to the bridge to stop it from happening - it was still blown up. We could have paid to ride a train over the river, but we had just missed it. The walk there wasn't too bad but walking back was u...

Begrudgingly we dragged ourselves our of bed at 6.15am to get the train to Kanchanaburi. Dave not surprisingly got us to the train station with plenty of time to spare and we queued for our ticket. It was then at this point we were very politely told we were at the wrong train station and trains to Kanchanaburi left from the other side of the city - superb. We were then given the option of waiting till 2pm for the next train (at the other side of Bangkok) or w...

After a sleepless night on the boiling, sweaty, noisy, kept the lights on all night 'sleeper' train we were told to get up at 5am - not too sure why as we weren't arriving in Bangkok till 6.30am... When we finally arrived back in the city we made our way to the same guesthouse that we stayed in last time and couldn't wait to collapse in our air con room. This wasn't too happen as the room wouldnt be ready until 12pm. As it was 7am and we hadnt slept or washed f...

Went first thing to collect our Visas from the Vietnam embassy - they'd had them for nearly 2 weeks now so it was good to know they hadn't lost them! Did some laundry and just loitered round the shopping centres, then for a change we went to the cinema and this time saw a Thai film called Chocolate - which is bit like rain man but rather than being really god at counting and sums a young Thai girl is like a genious at martial arts and proceeds to tak out an entir...

In Thailand the trains are slower but cheaper than the buses so, along with the Oz/French couple we caught the first train back to the capital. 4 hours sat on a hard wooden bench with the locals, a woman with a bag of live fish, a man with his mouth wide open asleep and the constant shouts of people selling food and drink, it was all what Thailand is about! We headed back up to Siam square, towards where we stopped last time. We were pleased with ourselves for...