March 1, 2007

• Spelunking Through History

  The next morning dawned bright and early (as mornings are wont to do…) and while Ward went fishing, Koh and I took a boat ride to the Khao Poom Caves, a former munitions depot for the Japanese during wwII

  

  Houses and a vietnamese temple along the banks of the river kwai. Incidentally, Kwai means buffalo in thai, so we were traveling down the water buffalo river

  

  These are the floating clubs/discos of Kachanaburi. At night, they travel slowly up and down the river playing funky music while people dance, drink, and occasionally swim alongside

  

  education is important for EVERYONE

  

  Koh is in front of tiger mouth cave, so called because it looks like the gaping jaws of a tiger

  

  in this cave the opening looked like a giant nose, so we used that stick to pick it

  

  buddha of the cave

  

  guardians of the area who come to take the dead away

  

  restaurant on the river, and then popsicle break!

  It was time to check out the bridge on the river kwai up close

  

  closer…

  closer….

  

  TOO CLOSE! TRAIN’S A COMIN’!

  

  So we got all on the train, and climbed in for a ride down the death railway

  

  It was the end of the line, nam tok station. From here we would go visit some monkeys and then hike hellfire pass, as you shall soon see both were even more exciting than they sound

  unless you are not into hiking or monkeys, then probably not so much

  -J

   

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