A road less travelled. Kanchanburi to Pilok - Travel Blogs without the waffle: Part 1

After a busy time with work and stress over the house, we decided to jump on the bike and take a little road trip for a couple of days for the wife's birthday.

After a short couple of hours hop out of Bangkok to Kanchanaburi, home of the well-documented Bridge over the RiverKwai, we decided to push on past the equally touristy traps of the Erawan Falls, disgraced Tiger Temple and the Hellfire Pass and visit the outer extremities of Kanchanaburi Province right up to a little enclave on the Burmese border called Pilok. Not many tourists get this far so in answer to the community's rhetorical title; Probably not!

I'm shit at writing so I will let the pictures do the talking with a little commentary as we go.

Firstly, the route!

Now I know Kanchanaburi is well covered by tourist blogs and posts but just a couple of photos of the bridge you may not have seen before. Although there were no foreign tourists due to Thailand still being closed, there were at least a few locals doing the bridge!

So as the sun began to set, we decided to take a walk right across the bridge to the opposite bank where there is a small market with food, beer and entertainment.

Avoiding the people who were still taking selfies sat on a real-life and still functional railway bridge!

On the other side, they have thoughtfully built a few staircases so you can get down off the tracks to have a bite to eat, take a boat trip or ride a pony. Nice to see those nails hammered well into the sleepers to stop the rails spreading out and hence the train dropping off the track!! Quality H&S.

So we sat and had a beer and some snap and listened to the band before ....

.....heading back across the bridge ......

(the wife trying to climb the steps after a couple of cheeky Chang!)

..... to where we'd parked the bike and back to the Tamarind guest house for the night. Simple, clean with fully functional aircon. A snip at only £12 GBP/ $15USD a night and right by the river.

The next day, we drove along this road.....

..... for about 90km before turning left onto this little road...

...... until we reached a 'Resort hotel' called the Nakakiri Resort Hotel which was in the middle of nowhere. Two hundred rooms and only one occupied.....

..... Where we had dinner, another cheeky Chang and decided to call it a night!

In the next exciting episode, we'll have jungle, monkey education and some pictures of a hydro-electric power station!!