So after we complained about the bed bugs, they removed the beds the next day. However, notice the wooden furnitures are just allowed to sun in the balcony. I don't think it's sufficient to drive the bed bugs away so good luck to the next person who stays in 624 of New World Lodge Hotel.
Ah...now this is what I call a hotel! This is the River Kwai Hotel and I strongly recommend it. Very nice and comfortable, though I still have that feeling bed bugs are crawling all over me with every little tingling sensation of my skin. Paranoia...
Yes do we love orange juice. I think I drank enough orange juice during that trip to last my life!
Oh I love the sour and spicy beef salad on the extreme left. It is just delicious! The other dishes are great too but the beef salad's my favourite.
Our first look at the legendary River Kwae. Foggy? No...the window of the van wasn't exactly clean...taken while the van was crossing a bridge. I hear our British companions go 'Amazing'.
Oh how zen! I haven't seen anything this beautiful and natural in like forever! Kinda feels like the forest of Fangorn or something, cept this is in a tropical rainforest. Would like to compare to the waterfalls in Maymount but you know, Maymount's just faking it.
Many fishes dwell in these pools. Just immerse your feet and stay still, and they will get to sucking your feet. Yah those are not leaves, they are fishes...
Another sight of a beautiful fall.
Me trying to get up close with the fishes. We were not suppose to catch the fishes, conservation? religious? I don't know, didn't ask since fishing wasn't on my agenda. My dad might have thought otherwise though haa.
Me and another one of the falls.
Yup, after close to 2km of trekking we came to the end of the trail. It's like a small oasis up there, very tranquil and serene. We rested for a while before making our way down.
The darker blue part is where the water got really deep. Didn't dare go there cause I was afraid of what's underneath...I watch too many movies about creatures from caves or from the deep.
Plus the water's really cold too!
Me living for a while as a monkey...the vines there are strong. One Russian woman decided to imitate what I had done.
A long drop into a deep blue pool. Looks too beautiful to be real.
While taking this pic I felt something touch my legs when I had them submerged in the water. Quickly pulled them out after that, scary...
One of the rickety old bridges we had to cross during our trek. It was almost falling apart I say, and boards perpendicular to the original ones are just haphazardly nailed in to stabilize the structure. Even those are coming off...
A cave in the cliff next to the Death Railway. Nothing special about this cave, cept that there sits a statue of a golden Buddha inside it. The cave was used during the Second World War as an air shelter.
I didn't realise how intimidating it was to walk on the track, till I had been doing it for 10min. The area for walking is really narrow, and if you accidentally fall, you fall into the River Kwai about 200m down...
On board the train. It's so weird these things: the locals take it as a form of everyday transportation, but we take it for simply entertaining ourselves, like it isn't enough that we are taking the MRT everyday.
Oh! The Bridge Over the River Kwai, part of the Death Railway. Again, walking along this precarious stretch of walkway is quite frightening, esp when there are like huge number of people walking on it at any one time, and in opposite directions somemore. I really wonder if anyone has fallen down into the river before. 
Sunset view of the Bridge Over the River Kwai.
River Kwai...this is what you'd be falling into if you missed a step...
See what I mean? 
Ok, dunno what this means. All War? or what?
Oh the bacon, Oh the orange juice!!
The elephant master for my sister and I. Forgot what his name is, but I remember it sounded very close to his pet's name. Managed to converse with him in Thai! WoopEE!
The elephant house...
Orrrr...ours a majestic one, with the tusks still nicely in place, and not as some decorative piece...
At a Vietnamese restaurant in MBK. Cheap and good food.
And did I mention I love the orange juice for the millionth time?
The four faced Buddha outside MBK.
There were many enclosures like this in the snake farm...what's in this? I asked my mom. There, mosquitoes and some insects lor...
Peacock peacock still stands so proud in his prison.
For a moment we thought the tiger is a fake one, or that it had died or something. But then it started breathing. Very poor thing...
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