Elephants
We then travelled south to Kanchanaburi
home to the death bridge or the bridge
over the River Kwai. This was our tour
guide’s home town so that evening he
took us out to the 10baht bar. As the
name suggests everything was 10baht
which is the equivalent to 20p. Needless
to say we all had sore heads the next
morning. We didn’t mind too much as we
were off to see the elephants. This was
the thing I was looking forward to the
most and it didn’t disappoint. Half-way
through the ride our handler slipped
down the trunk and gestured for us to sit
behind the elephants head. This was an
amazing experience, despite the feeling
that I was going to fall off at any moment.
After our ride it was time for the
elephants to get their own back. We
took them down into the river to bathe.
You might imagine this was a lovely
experience however the elephants took
the opportunity to relieve themselves and
we were desperately trying to stay on
their backs to avoid the mucky water!
Afterwards we then spent a few nights
at a homestay which we found out
was more of a B&B than staying in an
actual Thai home. Apparently it is called
a homestay for tax reasons. We had a
lovely room with futon mattresses, a
flat screen TV and two showers. That
evening we travelled down the river
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