Although it's not the fastest way to travel to Kanchanaburi by train, it is definitely one of the most beautiful ways ๐๐ On the way there, you can see many smaller villages, fruit plantations, and lakeshore landscapes.
This time, I didn't book a hostel in advance, I wanted to take a look around first. However, I quickly found the VN Guesthouse (Attention product placement ๐) and got a really great accommodation for 11 euros. Some of the rooms are floating on the water and the view over the Khwae Yai River is fantastic.
On the day of arrival, I didn't have anything else planned, I just wanted to explore the city a bit and visit the JJ Night Market in the evening. Of course, it didn't stop at the market, I also discovered the bar street, Maenamkwai road...๐ โ
... and made new friends๐ because you never sit alone in a bar for long and 2 Italians and a Thai quickly joined me. The 3 of them planned a motorcycle tour to the mountains for the next day, so I joined them spontaneously. Unfortunately, there wasn't a single motorcycle to be found in all of Kanchanamburi... but about 1,000,000 scooters๐คทโโ๏ธ๐
The tour and the people I was allowed to do it with were wonderful. We left Kanchanaburi and went around the Erawan National Park (which I actually wanted to visit on this day, but then the bikers approached me...๐). At the halfway point, we were greeted with an incomparable lake panorama and we crossed it by boat.
Once we arrived on the other side, we stopped at a floating seafood restaurant๐๐
After a refreshing meal, we made our way back and made a few small stops along the way.