heyyyyy alllll day 2 of my tour was probably the best day so far, spent most of the day with the crazy Sweeds I nicknamed Sven and Ingrid, we went to do a little trekking up a waterfall, it was sooooo beautiful, there were 7 tiers and total walk was about 3 kilometres, we decided to just go for it and climb to the top and then swim at all the levels on the way back down, the top was the best and the waterfall had a little cave underneath it! The only bad part was the little fish that ate all the dead skin off your feet which lived in the rock pools (rob I now know your pain!!!)
On the way up we saw some tame monkeys who came down from the trees and started to climb some of the tourists it was so sweet and they knew how to beg and were holding there hands out for food!!! we were a little late for the bus so the driver was angry and shouted at us in thai but we still got lunch although we did have to eat on the bus on the way to the tiger temple!
So arrived at the tiger temple and it was awesome, we payed a little extra to go in and have out pictures with the big tigers and see them in play time which was and amazing experience! It was relay cool being so close to these 200k beasts and just watching them chase balls, jump in water and chase a plastic bag on a stick!! just like big little kittens. It was also nice because it was a charity run place so all the tigers are looked after by monks, volunteers and locals they were not drugged and only saw tourists for 2 hours a day the rest of the time they were playing, feeding or sleeping!
Ah yeah and I took a 5 month cub for a walk on the lead and cuddled him as well he was only the size of tiger (our dog) but looked like dave-steve (the cat) but obviously with tiger stripes :D
so went back to the accommodation after the tigers had a little food and met up with one of my Australian friends and had a few beers, played some pool with the locals and went to bed.
Next day woke up (obviously) and we went river rafting and went to see the hellfire pass memorial and site of the biggest rock cut along the railway line, the rafting was fun, the rafts were about 5x5m and held about 6 on each one, we were took up river about a mile and just left for the current to take us back, at first I thought it was boring but then we started to backflip of in to the water and try to tip the other rafts over so there was a bit of banter which was cool, we got back to the hotel on the river and went to hellfire pass.
Hellfire pass was relay eye opening, it is another part of the railway line going from burma to thailand which the japs made the allies (spelt wrong) prisoners of war construct, some 600,000 people died in its construction mainly UK, OZ, and indians died from malnutrition or exhaustion but not many from disease because medication was readily available, so I took a walk down the line and saw the “hellfire pass” which was a massive stone cut through for the line and many people died there.
After that the tour guide took me back to bangkok which was the end of the tour! I got taken to the bus stop and awaited my night bus to take me to koh pang yan (spelt phonetically)
speak to you all soon xxxx
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