by Mark Butland | 31/12/2022 | Thailand 2023
We began the day at Damnoen Saduak floating market, about 100km south-west of Bangkok, finding our way through the crush of boats loaded with fruit and local crafts. The floating market is busiest early in the morning. Then it was on to Bangkok to get ready for New...
by Mark Butland | 30/12/2022 | Thailand 2023
We spent the day in the green, jungle-covered hills of Erawan National Park. It was our second visit, as we’d also been to Erawan on our 2022 trip. Climbing all seven tiers of the waterfall took some effort, with rocky paths between each level, but there was a bright...
by Mark Butland | 29/12/2022 | Thailand 2023
We started at the famous Bridge over the River Kwai, a place with a lot of hard history behind it, and took some quiet time there. The bridge was part of the Thailand-Burma railway, built in 1942 and 1943 by prisoners of war and labourers forced to work by the...
by Mark Butland | 28/12/2022 | Thailand 2023
This trip began at the airport, where a private van was waiting to take us to the Royal River Kwai Resort in Kanchanaburi. The town is about 110km north-west of Bangkok, close to where the Khwae Noi river joins the Mae Klong. We settled in by the slow-moving river and...
by Mark Butland | 31/01/2022 | Thailand 2022
We flew back to Bangkok for our last day and went up the Baiyoke Sky Hotel. The building has an observation deck on the 77th floor, and above it the revolving view deck sits on the 84th floor, high above the city. It was a good place to think back over a trip that...
