Thailand's Kanchanaburi in Pictures

Monday 4 November at Duneshine Resort in Kanchanaburi before we were shipped off to our schools.

Pre- teaching week: PacSai (The English teacher) took us to see a beautiful temple 

Pre- teaching week: Also were taken to see how cloth is weaved and created

Pre- teaching week: Here's me having a go at it (really messed it up because you need to press your left foot down at the same time you pull something with your right hand and press your right foot). It was really complicated... think I messed it up but I couldn't understand Thai so I didn't worry too much.

Pre- teaching week: It was great giving it a go though. Really genuinely appreciate the work that goes into making sari's and beautiful cloths and clothes. Everyone at the work shop were lovely and I even brought the little hat (in my second blog) to remember it by.

Pre- teaching week:Well the last three things were all done on the same day! The bridge over the river Kwai (during the day). Beautiful piece of architecture and definitely a place to visit in Kanchanaburi.

Pre- teaching week: The students had a military week and most of the boys had gone camping for the latter part of the week. 

WangSala school 

Weekend Two in Kanchanaburi

I'm 60% sure this was waterfall two of seven... on this lovely waterfall trek we were also shown a ginormous spider in a tree with long thin legs and also a hole in which a Teranchala lives. Considering I don't even visit the insect house in a zoo... this was a little too close for comfort.

Waterfall three: This is the place where I slipped (not in this picture obviously) and were playfully approached by the sucking fish while we all swam to this rock.

There was a viewing point as we continued up the hill towards the top.

Lovely little waterfall (think this one was five). You had to climb down the rocks to get into this one.

Felt like we were in an Indiana Jones movie as we walked up this one!

Waterfall seven: We made it to the top! It was stunning and even though I  was tired, could feel a couple of bruises coming up and damp, it was still worth seeing.

Little Elephant (I say little but it was bigger than me!)

It was meant to be a picture of just the bamboo boats but Charlotte's hand couldn't help photo bomb it! (Joke) Amazingly captured; as we were setting off the boat moved suddenly and Charlotte just nearly toppled backwards into the river... now that would have been a picture moment!

All the boys in our LoveTEFL group on a bamboo boat. All in safety gear!

Just caught it, before it grabbed some food!

Not the same elephant as the previous one...

The view from the death railway station as we patiently waited and waited for the train which was running on Thai time.

Would never do this back home... but here's a few of us on the train line. All worn and hungry as we approached the end of the day.

And finally... the bridge over the river Kwai at night (I'm guessing when it was originally built without the lights but what's a tourist attraction without colourful lights right?!- still looked beautiful.)