Sawasdee - Hello in Thai.
We have been so busy! Yesterday we visited a National Park which had really goregous waterfalls with great swimming areas. We all went in for a dip with the plethora of gross fishies that would definitely nibble at you if you weren't incessantly moving. We stayed on the River Kwai for the past two nights in a floating room actually on the river. We shared the room with scary pigeons and some spider voyeur in the shower. The river is really pretty and has a lot of history attached to it. The Japanese had POWS from all over build a railroad across Thailand into Burma during WWII. Many, many people died from harsh treatments and illnesses. We went to the actual rail road to a place called Hell Fire Pass, named because when they cut and dynamited through mountains at night it looked like hell to local people. Also, we visited the graveyard of the people who died during the war under the Japanese - one of few graveyards you will find in a Buddhist nation (the British maintain it).
Today, we took public transit (i.e. unairconditioned busses) to Ayuuthaya - a city of many ruins. We just returned from travels to a few and checked out the buddahs there. Unfortunately not a lot is known about them because they are so old (at least 400 years) and the records were not kept. Tonight we take the great night train to Chiang Mai and I can't wait - it is supposed to be awesome! Now we are preparing to take a swim in the hotel's pool and it should be great.
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