KANCHANABURI: 2 DAYS ON THE KWAI RIVER BETWEEN MARKETS, WATERFALLS AND ELEPHANTS

Two really great days with the famous Bangkok markets and the nature of Kanchanaburi, you will sleep on the Kwai River in a classy resort and in the morning you will have the Erawan Falls waiting for you, and the beautiful experience with the elephants, very intelligent and lovable animals.
On the way back, visit the most beautiful stupa in the world.
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— FIRST DAY, 7.30 from your hotel in Bangkok

Visit the Maeklong Railway Market Train Market

Picturesque and unique, this market to live must necessarily be dynamic otherwise the train would crush all the goods 😉
So arm yourself with a camera because when you get on the train you will have fun
The Maeklong Railway Market is truly a gem and is very close to the Floating Market

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Visit Floating Market

The Floating Market Damnoen Saduak is the most famous market in Bangkok (although it is almost 2 hours drive), take a boat and will guide you through the characteristic channels full of exotic and fresh merchandise, all set on boats for what It has become a very picturesque and original trade.
It is still the most famous, unique and inimitable floating market

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Visit Bridge on the Kwai River

Fascinating view of the bridge made famous by the book of Pier Boulle then became an epic film in 1957 directed by David Lean.

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Visit HellFire Pass Memorial Museum

Known by locals as the Chong Khao Kad Museum, it is part of the Death Railway cruelly built by prisoners of war during the Second World War.
Hellfire or Chong Khao Kad is the point where the railroad was to cut the mountain, which was really impossible, but the prisoners of war were forced to use hand drills, picks and shovels to sculpt the rock so that a train could to pass. The 500-meter long pass was completed incredibly in six months in 1943, with many lives sacrificed.
The passage is no longer in use and is a museum that displays tools and photographs related to the historical event to remind people of the importance of world peace.

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Check in at the River Kwai Jungle Rafts Resort
4-stars resort

Surrounded by tropical rainforest, the River Kwai Jungle Rafts Floating Hotel offers eco-friendly rooms built on bamboo rafts and nestled along the Khwae Noi River in Kanchanaburi Province.
River Kwai Rafts rooms are lit by lanterns rather than electricity for added peace of mind and a unique atmosphere. Each room features walls created by weaving local bamboo plants, wooden furnishings, an en suite bathroom and an outdoor terrace with a sun lounger and a hammock.
River Kwai Jungle Hotel’s staff can help you organize your hiking, mountain biking or canoeing trips.

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Dinner at the River Kwai Jungle Raft

Very romantic and special, the dinner a few steps from the water of the river by candlelight gives the idea of a real holiday. Dinner included

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Dance Show Mon

You will be cheered by the music and dances of a local tribe, the Mon

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—–SECOND DAY

Breakfast at the River Kwai Jungle Raft

Wake up on the river in your resort, get a great breakfast and then get ready to visit the famous Erawan Falls

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Visit Erawan Falls

Fabulous trip to the Erawan Falls, which are part of the homonymous Natural Park.
The many levels of the waterfalls will make you walk about an hour before arriving at the top of the waterfall
but you will be repaid by the bathrooms you can do, in fact the waterfalls are arranged on 7 levels and each lower part of each level we find natural pools with inviting and warm water, ideal. The rocks of the waterfalls seem made to welcome us, we can dive or slide between the levels

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Sanctuary of the Elephants at the Elephant nature park

A real Sanctuary of the Elephants where to admit and assist these beautiful animals.
You can go swimming with the elephants and understand their beauty without doing damage.

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Visit Nakhon Pathom

You are going to visit the highest pagoda in the world, 127 meters and very few know it, so visit its very high golden stupa, very impressive, with the Buddha standing inside, it is a very nice and well kept pagoda . Around the pagoda you will visit an evocative and colorful market

Return to Bangkok at your hotel after these two wonderful days.

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