Although it's not the fastest way to travel to Kanchanaburi by train, it is definitely one of the most beautiful ways 🚞😍 On the way there, you can see many smaller villages, fruit plantations, and lakeshore landscapes.
Almost there...
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 😁) 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.
New accommodation 😍 @VN guesthouse
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...😅✌
@JJ nightmarket
... and made new friends😁 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 scooters🤷♀️😅
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...😁). At the halfway point, we were greeted with an incomparable lake panorama and we crossed it by boat.
End station, now continue by boat 😁
Once we arrived on the other side, we stopped at a floating seafood restaurant😁🙌
...and of course there were side dishes as well...😅
After a refreshing meal, we made our way back and made a few small stops along the way.
This panorama... After two hours at the guesthouse, we met in the evening for dinner (of course at a pizzeria with Italians 😅) and surprisingly, the pizza was really good!🤤Biker gang🤘😁 And so this day came to an end... The next day, it was finally time for the Erawan National Park, which I was looking forward to even from Germany. I took the first bus at 8 a.m. and drove for about 1.5 hours.The bus parked right in front of the entrance, so I could start walking right away.Entrance to the Erawan National Park The waterfalls are spread over seven levels, I decided to walk all the way up to the top, as there are the fewest people there at this time of day (my logic...😅)From the 5th floor onwards, the ascent was surprisingly strenuous and you sometimes had to do a little climbing, good thing I was wearing my Nikes (another product placement 😆) instead of flip-flops🙏7th floor 👌 But after a while, it was too crowded for me here as well, so I decided to fight my way through the bushes 😁... .... With success!A natural pool just for me and no one in sight 😁👌And I'm already in 😁 I stayed in here until I almost dissolved...I think I was in the water for about 1.5 hours, then my cover was blown and I was no longer alone, but it was time to head back anyway🥾😁The other levels were also nice to see, but I personally prefer to swim with fewer people 😉 A wonderful day in nature, 1000 times more beautiful to visit for me than the cities... #purenature #countrygirl 😉✌ Just in time for sunset, I was back in Kanchanaburi 🌅 Now just eat and have a Chang beer and then off to bed...