CIE Thai Style

Cant believe its Thursday already, having a hard time remembering all thats happened since Tuesday!
Because the jetlag hit us on the Monday, could not sleep on Monday night, actually stopped my alarm clock before it went off at 5:30am!
The van picked us up at 6:30am with our take away breakfast rolls and bags of fruit in tow, we headed West to Kanchanaburi with some other travellers(the mcdonaghs from galway,not!)
Bourkie woke me up 3 hours later, we arrived at the WW2 war cemetary at Kanchanaburi where the WW2 soldiers who died during the construction the bridge over the River Kwai and the railway known as the Death Railway, going from Thailand to Burma. Most soldiers were between 23-30 and from England, the Netherlands and Australia. Beautifully kept but very poignant.
Next we went onto the see the actual bridge over the River Kwai and took the death railway along the river.After that we got lunch at a floating restaurant on the river.Unbeknownst to us, there were extras to be seen, such as tigers, unfortunately we didnt bring enough money and presumed they were all in cages anyway. This French dude called Raphael got it into his head that he wanted to see caves and as there were only 3 of us left and because we are nice, we went along,as you can tell I was a little bitter but did enjoy them.
After dinner we got a speed boat to our 'hotel'. Raphael had told us that the floating hotel was nice so we had images of a flushing toilet and hot shower, we were to be disappointed. Basic is a nice word that we will use. After a couple of unfortunate tries on other toilets we figured out how to use these ones, throw away the toilet paper and use a hose to flush.....the shower was cold and did we know it, to say Bourkie was making strange noises was an understatement, I thought he was hyperventilating. I didnt have the courage to put my head under.
Next morning we headed to the Erawan national park where there is a 7 tier waterfall and it takes 2.5km uphill trek to get to the top with some makeshift ladders and steps, very glad we wore good runners but there was beautiful scenes.
We were brought back to Bangkok where we picked up our bags and passports with all our visas for Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. One of the travel agents brought us to the train station where we expected to get the train further north to Sukhothai. That was not to be. There was a train strike, announced 10 minutes previous and they had no idea of when trains would run next. Our first reaction was whether we could get a bus to Sukhothai instead. With some help, we found out this was possible and raced to the North of the city through rush hour to the station. We thought that all tourists would have headed to the Mo Chit bus station in the North but noticed that we were the only 'non-locals' there!!!!!!! We couldn't understand why more didnt follow especially since we could see the tv and see people sleeping in the train station and we got a '1st class air-conditioned' bus ticket for half the price, CIE- eat your heart out, it only cost 7 euro each to take us to Sukhothai, 450km away.
Blurry eyed, we reached our destination at 4:30am after leaving at 10pm with air conditioned meaning air conditioning the whole time, whether or not its freezing, thank god they gave us blankets and even a little drink with a cake!
Well, we are hungry and there are cheap cocktails to be had so we will tell you all about Sukhothai tomorrow! Planters Punch all round!