Kanchanaburi! (Part 1)

We finished orientation and now it’s time for some fun! Three hours on a bus and we are in Kanchanaburi, west of Bangkok and home of the River Khwae. The orientation crew made a stop at the famous bridge over the River Khwae, as seen in the 1957 film “The Bridge over the River Kwai.” (It is called the River Khwae here as kwai means water buffalo and is also an insult.) The film is about the Japanese forcing  prisoners of war to construct this bridge as part of the Burma Railway during WWII. I haven’t seen it yet, but I will now!

A little drizzly but still beautiful!

The program directors said we had a special surprise for dinner and they weren’t kidding! We hopped on a river boat for a dinner cruise to enjoy the sunset from the River Khwae! I don’t know how but the sunsets seem more magnificent here in Thailand.

Our big barge of a boat was pulled along by this little guy:

This is the life!

As if this wasn’t fantastic enough, tomorrow we get to meet some elephants! More soon!