January 17th to 18th

Mad night out in Kanchanaburi, found a funny little bar where we were allowed to play whatever music we wanted all night. So stayed there drinking buckets of Thai alcohol, meeting funny people and playing pool. Both Sayd and Em neatly puked up their dinners into the bar's back garden, Emily not so neatly.. 
   Morning after we hired bikes again, ben changed his mind last minute and chilled on our balcony in the sun all day. So 5 girls on our rickety bikes made our way south of Kanchanaburi to the weird cave temple. Couldn't understand the Thai road laws, don't seem to be many anyway but definitely cycled the wrong way up a few one way streets, dodging manic cars and motorbikes.. Something about 5 British girls in a row cycling through Thai countryside on wobbly bikes in little shorts and tops must have been unusual, got honked or waved at by every passing vehicle. Friendly hellos or taking the piss of the ridiculous sight. Motorbikes slowed down to drive parallel with us looking over with massive teethy grins. Swerved to avoid a selection of dead road-side animals, cats, lizards, rats.. And crazy peddling and screaming when Saydi at the back shouted that a stray dog was chasing after us barking and snapping at her wheels. Got confronted by a massive hill but collapsed off half way up in hysterical laughter.. RIDICULOUSLY difficult to peddle the old gear-less bikes in the heat up what felt like a mountain. The cave temple was weird.. Go deeper and deeper underground, through narrow little paths and doorways, coming across various rooms with random shrines in, big buddhas and strange ribbons wrapped around rocks. A tourist was murdered in there in 1995 by a drug-addicted monk so we were all a bit jumpy.. 
  Had another funny night out at the bar, owned by a Thai woman called 'Sugar' who gave us free welcome shots for coming back.. Unfortunately they were home made Thai whisky and just the smell was gag-inducing so I snuck mine into my existing drink bucket while faking the horrid after-shot grossness that everybody else had to endure ;) 
   Today we caught a bus to Erawan National Park to see the 7-tiered waterfall. Was so beautiful, the water was perfectly blue and full of big fish. We all trekked to the very top tier. So worth the climb up the trail that was pretty much non-existent in places and had half of us with mild injuries by the time we got to the top. The 7th water-fall was incredible, can't put it into words you'll just have to imagine, looked like something from a magical world.. Shame about the loud, fat group of 15 or so Greek people chortling and shouting and throwing themselves belly first into the pools.. Talk about ruining the peaceful atmosphere. One of them, ignoring the sign 'beware, vicious monkeys' decided to get too close and made a tit of himself when the monkey went for him, all teeth and claws. HA HA HA. Down to the jungle for a 2 day jungle magic tour tomorrow.