Before leaving Thailand I spent a few days in Kanchanaburi (which I still cannot pronounce correctly - they put the emphasis on different syllables than we would in English, so I would say Kan - CHAN - a - bu - ri, but I think they say Kan - chan - A - bu - ri, and they don't understand if you say it with the wrong emphasis either). This is the place where the bridge over the river Kwai, also known as the death railway is, but there are other nice things to see there too. I went to the bridge and a museum about the construction of it, and another day I took a trip to a waterfall and a place called the Tiger Temple. Thailand has many waterfalls so saying as it was the last day I was going to be in the country I figured I had to visit one. It had 7 tiers and you were allowed to swim in the pools between some of them. There was another girl on the tour that I'd met a few weeks back diving on Ko Tao, and we just hung out in one of the pools because it was nice and cool in there and very hot outside. The only problem was there were fish that bit in the water. Upon first getting in, it was very weird and I wasn't sure I could stay in. They were pretty small and the bites didn't hurt, it was just startling, and they'd come one after the other and keep biting. I found that if I kept moving they didn't bother me as much so I got in for a swim. The tiger temple just used to be a regular Buddhist temple but some villagers found an injured baby tiger and didn't know what to do with it so they gave it to the monks who took care of it. Other people started bringing tigers there too and then they had babies and now there are lots of tigers, making it the tiger temple. The monks say they've trained the tigers to be very gentle, but I think they might just be drugged since they hardly noticed when people came up to them. It was a pretty weird place, for part of the day they take most of the tigers to one area and you can get your picture taken with them. I thought they'd just take your picture with one tiger, but they brought you around to about 5 of them to get a picture with each.
The bridge over the river Kwai
The waterfall where we swam
Swimming in the waterfall
With one tiger
With another tiger
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Hi Aislyn
Those tigers HAVE TO BE drugged!!!
or it is so hot that they sleep all the time !?!? anyways I love seeing you in pictures, makes your blog so much more personal and we
miss you , so it makes me happy to
see you !
Love ya muchly
Patsy
Hi Aislyn
I finally figured out how to make an account-- it's pretty hard when you can't read Thai and are stupid like me haha. I like reading your blogs and your pictures are great. Keep leaving them :) I am pretty sure you can get palm sugar in Canada so you can make your Thai feast! Miss you!
Susanne
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