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There is trekking and rafting on and along the river
are hotels
and resorts..
The Waterfall
is
just a few km outside of Kanchanaburi
town is somehow a different waterfall since most of
the water runs down the blank limestone and only a
part falls. This gives a unique appearance.
Together with the
River Kwai just beside, actually behind
the other side of the road, its a great outdoor
waterfall experience. Plenty of
bungalow cluster, guesthouses, hotels and river
resorts along the River Kwai invite to stay, with
huge Bangkok so near and such a great location good
business is almost automatically. The buses from
Bangkok come in by the dozen, plenty of Thai
tourists enjoy a swim in the basin of the waterfall. Most women splash into the water with the
cloth on, its not usual in Thailand to show to much.
Erawan waterfall
is a couple of
kilometers down the road one of the absolute highlights for
every visitor to Thailand and naturally to the local
Thai. The whole area around Kanchanaburi and along
the road to the the Three Pagoda Pass" at the border
Myanmar Thailand is
great nature one of the best outdoor destinations in
he country.
Also the Tiger Temple
is
here and several marvelous shrines and
Buddhist temples
plus monasteries. The weather is quite
good all over the year and no need for a travel
guide, everything is open here in Kanchanaburi.
Only the entry fee to
the Erawan falls are a little bit strange, it
Baht 200,- per foreigner, Thais pay Baht 50,-.
Hills opposite the waterfall |