Special thanks to our friends & guide Nee & Gregor who organized this trip for us. I can highly recommend them for any trips in & around Bangkok.
Special highlight is the bicyling trours with Nee - get ready for a real adanture:
http://www.spiceroads.com/about/leaders
This area is famous for waterfalls, national parks, the River Kwai Bridge and memorial sites and mainy more.
So we started to head for the Erawan Waterfalls which you can visit on 9 different levels - up to 1.500m. We just made it to level 2 ;-) ... to use the time for a nice picknik including refreshing bath afterwards!
Now we are ready for history, so we visited one of 3 graveyards remembering the loss during River Kwai Bridge was erected.
To know more about the entire story, please check that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_on_the_River_Kwai
And now the highlight of today - The TIGER TEMPLE!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Temple
Here are Tiger raised by monks which seems to be used to human and ignore them as long you follow exactly the instructions of the staff. You will be taken by your hand and the instruct you about every move. There is a clear tension in the air, which makes it a real thrilling event!
Of course there are no official incident reports available, however I did not feel real save there...
... BUT the pictures are nice - aren`t they:
As we were not eaten by the tigers, actually I am not sure if they have even recognized us, we move back to Bangkok which will be an onther 3 hours ride.
After all this action during the day pur driver got hungry so we stopped on the highway for a very special snack...
IF YOU THINK THE TIGER TEMPLE WAS WEARD - LOOK AT THIS:
He get out to buy a pair of RAT`s!!!
I had a glimpsy in the cooler box which will haunt me for ages x-p
But for those still interested:
BON APPETIT
