Day Six - Kanchanburi

No wake up call today but we needed to be on the bus by 9am...I was up throughout the night as it is very loud with jungle noises here!

If you don't like bugs and geckos you might not enjoy your stay here ;) They are in your room, not in abundance but there...I named my gecko Dobby...because he's kinda like a house elf...taking care of my bugs and spiders...and by that I mean he is probably eating them as my room seems relatively bug free :)

The restaurant is outdoors here and by breakfast time it was approaching 29°C. Breakfast buffet consists of egg friend rice and soup if you want...with lots of vegetables and noodles if you want...pork, chicken, fried egg and cut up weiners...fruit of course and sometimes yogurt. The coffee here is excellent...they are Rockstars with their coffee! This was as westernized as I could get it this morning ;)

Bus loaded and we are on our way to the Hellfire Pass, where POW's once used hand tools to chip a tunnel through surrounding rocks and mountains.

It was a surreal experience walking through the pass and seeing the 75 meters of rock that was primarily hand chipped out at 25 meters deep! To realize that thousands of slaves and prisoners of war were forced to work till they collapsed and then repeat the day over and over...to read about the thousands of deaths as a result of that was very sad.

The museum has photos of the men in loincloth only and extremely malnourished and they still worked all day with little to no food or water...in the extreme heat we have felt here, I can't even fathom.

Today was a pretty mellow day as by 11:30 or so, as we made our way to lunch, the temperature was just 39°C and humidity at its  highest as per usual!

But we had one last trip to take on the Death Railway, in an actual train car, with all the windows open...which didn't make it feel any cooler if you're thinking that?!!

Needless to say, it was very scenic and lovely to pass through the rural area and see more farms and homes.

We passed over a couple of WOOD bridges which was a little scary, I'm not gonna lie there.....the name of the railway did cross my mind as we passed over them.

I'm a hot sticky mess with a headache by 2pm...back at the resort everyone headed to the pool for a cool down and then down to the room for a feet up and nap:)

Dinner in the open restaurant and then off to bed...we are packing up and heading Phitsanulok tomorrow with a quick stop at the ancient Buddhist monastery of Wat Pa Lelai on the banks of the Suphan River.