We both do lots of research on wherever it is that we are planning to travel on vacation. We follow our fellow bloggers and vloggers on Youtube to find the best street food, sites of interest and also about the local culture. Travel site, Triptipedia, recently featured one of our blogs “7 Interesting Travel…
We arrived back in Bangkok and made a stop at a location called Gems International Gallery – a slightly strange, tourist trap. They shuttle guests back and forth from hotels and once you have sat through a bad B movie of introduction to gems you are surrounded by a herd of women in little black…
Before boarding the commuter train in Nam Tok Sai Yok Noi we had lunch at a small family-run restaurant across from the station.Before boarding the commuter train in Nam Tok Sai Yok Noi we had lunch at a small family-run restaurant across from the station. Lunch was served family-style for each table of four. We started out…
Hellfire Pass is the name of a railway cutting on the former Burma Railway (“Death Railway”) which was built with forced labor during World War II. . Hellfire Pass because the sight of emaciated prisoners working through the night by torchlight was said to resemble a scene from Hell. Most of the laborers were Chinese,…
After a day of touring the floating market and Bridge on the River Kwai; we made a turn off the main roads and really got into the countryside. Rough unpaved roads with locals farming sugar cane, lots of interesting vegetable varieties and bananas. After heading down a very steep hill we came to a parking…
The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 British-American epic war film directed by David Lean and starring William Holden and Alec Guinness. Based on the novel Le Pont de la Rivière Kwai (1952) by Pierre Boulle, the film is a work of fiction but borrows the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–43…
On our fourth day in Thailand, we left Bangkok and headed out to Kanchanaburi province to the Sai Yok National Park. This was a three-hour drive northwest almost to the Myanmar border, about 214 km (about 133 miles) We had a great, very comfortable motorcoach and while we didn’t interact much with the driver; our…
We’re working hard now that we are back to report on our travels in Thailand, share pictures and suggestions as LOTS of people have asked about our experience, things we did, the fantastic value, and the travel company we used. The first hotel we stayed at was the Aetas Lumpini Hotel – located right across…
Before traveling from Bangkok to Kanchanaburi we attended a dinner theater called Siam Niramit. We were not permitted to photograph the show itself but prior to the show, we were allowed to tour several replicas of Thai homes from several regions of the county. We tried several traditional foods, crafts, see people in traditional dress…
Lesson number one of trying to write a travel blog…. trying to download images from two cameras, two iPhone, trying to get good wifi, write posts and enjoy vacation is very time consuming… Now that we’re home we’ll work to get caught up with more of the travel stories and some more images