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Erawan waterfall & National Park, Thailand
Erawan National Park is a 550-square-kilometer park in western Thailand located in Kanchanaburi Province - about half an hour’s drive or so from Kanchanaburi Town.
The major attraction of the park is Erawan Falls, a spectacular seven-tiered waterfall named after the erawan, the three-headed white elephant of Hindu mythology. There are also four caves in the [...]
Kanchanaburi - The bridge on the river Kwai
Has anyone seen the Academy Award-winning 1957 film The bridge on the river Kwai? It’s one of those classic war films that I loved so much as a child.
The film is apparently a fairly inaccurate depiction of the construction of the Burma Railway, also known as the Death Railway, or the Thailand-Burma Railway - a [...]
Podcast: Koh Lipe, Tarutao marine park
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Koh Lipe (also spelt ‘Lipeh’ or ‘Leepae’) is a small island in Thailand (Satun Province), near the Tarutao National Marine Park, on the Andaman (west) coast of Thailand adjacent to Malaysia. It has a small local population of Chao Ley [...]