Kanchanaburi

We hired a car and drove up to Kanchanaburi, it was great to be in the luxury of our own car after so many bus journeys over the past few weeks. Unfortunately we followed the Lonely Planet's instructions to our Hotel which sent us over the wrong bridge and it took us almost an hour of driving up and down the road looking for it before we realised this and got on the right road!! The hotel was lovely and worth the drive though.
The town had a tragic role in WW11 as a Japanese run POW camp where many British soldiers died. We went to Death Railway Bridge made famous from the film The Bridge over the River Kwai. We also visited a War museum and an Allied War Cemetery that was immaculately kept.

To get us back in the holiday spirit we went to a beautiful National Park the following day and trekked up a Waterfall.
The journey back was fine apart from my navigating skills into Bangkok!

Tomorrow we are off to Sydney where the hard work will begin again.