The last 2 days have been spent on a tour, which can I say was a rip off? Of I did. That aside, we some pretty remarkable things.
The tour was focused around the Kanchanburi area (yes, where that Aussie got shot).
The main event was always going to be the tiger temple, which is a Buddhist temple which has adopted tiger cubs rescued by surrounding villagers from poachers and the like. Not the most photogenic, but proof that I DID TOUCH A TIGER! And didn't even slightly get mauled! The tigers were amazing. I kinda had the feeling like it's turning into a bit of a tourist trap, but yeah enjoyed it just the same. (If you want to know more about the Tiger Temple check out their website)
We also went to the bridge on River Kwai, walked the hellfire pass - this is a 4 km section of the train tracks built in WW2 by Prisoners captured by the Japanese. The walk was beautiful and wasn't really that hard. I was amazing to see what the POWs in WW2 had to experience and forced to do by their captors.
We also saw a really nice waterfall, which was not far from the side of the road. We also happened upon some crazy monkeys which were pretty cool to see. The tour bus Just pulled off the road to a small layby in which the public can feed the monkeys. They didn't bite - but grabbed the food out of our hands.
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