Experiencing Kanchanaburi

Today me, Stephani, Ashley, and Erin left for kanchanaburi for our mini holiday vacation. more than anything it was our getaway from the city life. after a long and expensive taxi ride we had made it to the bus terminal. as we were making our way to buy a ticket, a bus pulls up and the attendant swings open the door and yells out, "kanchanaburi?" and we were like YEAH! as we loaded the bus, we agreed how easy that was. the bus ride would have been nice except for the fact that i had to pee since the moment i boarded the bus. it was horrible, cause the bus was taking forever. finally three hours had passed, and we arrived to our desintation. all i could think was, THANK GOD!!! i rushed passed a mob of tuk tuk drivers with on mission to pee!!

After checking in to our guesthouse, we decided to explore the city. After a trial run with renting motorbikes, we decided to be more logical and got bicycles. We had a blast riding around town. We biked down to River Kwai Bridge, and after taking a million pictures decided to go back to guest house. The next day we took a tour to the tiger temple, where we got to get up close to tigers.
The only part that I could have done without, was a tiger peeing on me! We had the chance to walk with a monk and a tiger, but as the tiger walks it marks it's territory. Unfortunately his aim was a little off, and it got on me. It was disgusting!

Everyone told us, we couldn't leave Kanchanaburi without visiting the Erawan waterfall. So the following day we booked a tour to spend half a day there. I have never seen a water like this before; it was absolutely breathtaking!
The erawan waterfall consists of seven tiers and it was such a hike to get to the top. After climbing down we decided to take a swim at tier 3. The water was cold but refreshing and there were a ton of fish nibbling on my feet. They didn't hurt, but it felt really strange. After we went down to tier 2 and there we were met by wild monkeys. Before we started the day the tour guide told us to beware of the monkeys because they often tend to steal peoples belongings. At this tier we decided to swim underneath the waterfall...it was so much fun!!



After our trip to the waterfall we visited the 'death railway' and took train down it. It was really nice to see the countryside. Even though this trip was only four days, it was four days away from Bangkok's busyness and polluation!