Bangkok
After a 14.5 hour flight (& 2hr stopover in Doha, Qatar), we arrived in Bangkok late on Tuesday afternoon. There was just enough time for a quick rest & then some street food before bed.Bangkok seems much quieter than our previous visits. There is less traffic (definitely less scooters driving over the pavements) and less visible pollution in general (although there was an obvious smog on our last day, at sunrise).



We spent a total of 3 nights in Bangkok, to recover from the flights & to visit some of the places we missed on our previous trips here, such as Wat Arun (The Dawn Temple).
Caturday – Cat Cafe
We also popped into the cat cafe which was 5 mins away.
Wat Arun Ratchawararam




Kanchanaburi – River Kwai
Our next stop was Kanchanaburi. We travelled from Bangkok by train on the 3.5hr trip. That doesn’t sound long, but the train was busy and extremely hot even with all the windows fully open & ceiling fans clattering.
Bridge on the River Kwai, Death Railway Museum and POW Cemetery
The Burma Railway, also known as the Death Railway, was a 415-kilometre (258 mi) railway between Thailand, and Burma, built by Japanese Engineers using more than 12,000 Allied POWs & 10s of thousands of forced labourers from other Asian countries.















