We headed to Sangkhlaburi on Saturday morning, stopping at Hellfire Pass on our way. The Hellfire Pass is a railway cutting on the former "Death Railway" in Thailand which was built with forced labour during the Second World War, by prisoners of war. Jess and a few of the others decided to do the short 4km walk through where the railway used to be, which was supposed to take 40 minutes altogether. So they set off very eagerly and walked through the pass to a smal...

Today we went to the Tiger Temple in Kanchanaburi. It was incredible. Apparently, they feed the tigers in the morning and exercise them so much that you are able to stroke them and walk with them. We managed to get some really good photos with them. As it was in a temple, you have to cover your shoulders and ankles (massive pain for us!). We leave Kanchanaburi (and our beautiful pool) tomorrow and head to Sangkhlaburi where we're visiting the orphange and volunte...

After a much needed nights sleep in Bangkok, we headed to Kanchanaburi by coach. Our hotel was AMAZING. We're right on the River Kwai with a huge swimming pool which we have made very good use of! Unfortunately, someone had the bright idea of giving us the room on the top floor with our huge cases to carry up the stairs in the 40 degree heat. This mission took us at least 20 minutes as we also had to manouvre past a pooing cow which became very intimidated by our...

Khaosan Road was definitely an experience in itself! Hundreds of thai men shouting 'do you want to buy a wedding dress?' 'do you want a free husband?' and inviting us to the ping pong shows (if anyone doesn't know what they are - google it!). We got extremely excited when we saw our first ladyboy but we were also quite disturbed! We had our tea, a chicken stir fry cooked infront of us on a wok for about 2 pound. When we returned to the hotel there was still no s...

... But our suitcases didn't! We had a lovely breakfast in our 5* hotel including a fry up, waffles, smoothies and smoked salmon! No further problems at the airport... UNTIL we were told just before we boarded the plane that our suitcases would not be joining us (we knew it was too good to be true!). We prepared for our 11 hour flight. Lucy played pokemon while Jess watched Monseters Inc, reliving our childhoods. When we landed we were told to not even bother l...