Kanchanaburi

After spending few days in Bangkok we decided to take a two-day trip to the city of Kanchanaburi. We drove to a very nice hotel located on the band of the river kwai, very close to the famous bridge (have you seen the movie?) We are part of a lovely group of some Israelis and few other turists. The Thai people tend to talk to all of us in Hebrew - very funny (and sometimes disturbing) to see this happening quite a lot.

So we did here some very cool stuff. We rode on elephants, and afterwards swimmed and bath them in the river. very nice! Then we visited a wild-animals farm where we carressed tigers (big ones and baby ones as well) - it was nice but too comercialized. We went to some markets, had an exciting boat ride, and had a great foot massage. The next day we visited the seven waterfalls known as Erewan Waterfalls. A really nice place where you climb a small mountain in a shady jungle. The way was spotted with many pools and waterfalls where you can swim and cool down.
Also, along the way you can see loads of monkeys jumping and playing around in the wild which is really great. As in any other place in Thailand, we ate a lot of rice and Gil doesn't like that so much.. we needs my mom's schnitzel :)











That's it for now.. next is Chaing Mai in the north.

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