River Kwai Experience

Meet your private English-speaking guide in the hotel’s lobby.

Depart for Nakhon Pathom, visit Phra Pathom Chedi, the world’s tallest Buddhist monument. The orange-tiled chedi dates back from the mid-1850s. It encases an earlier chedi, and attracts Buddhist pilgrims from all over the world.

Depart for Kanchanaburi, located 128 kilometres (80 miles) west of Bangkok. It is Thailand’s third largest province with an area of 19,486 square kilometres. The provincial area is mountainous and has the west border next to Myanmar.  (2 hours drive)

Visit JEATH War Museum, a realistic depiction of prisoner of war living quarters, with photographic, pictorial and physical memorabilia dating from World War II.

Continue to Kanchanaburi War Cemetery. It contains the remains of 6,982 war prisoners (mostly the British, Dutch, Australian and American) who lost their lives during the construction of the Bridge over the River Kwai and the railway to Burma (the Death Railway).

After Dinner, Visit Kanchanaburi Night Market. You will find there various local Thai specialties and self made Thai sweets. The choice is huge and often unexpected delicious.
Overnight : Kanchanaburi

Breakfast at the hotel before check out.

Then visit world-famous Bridge over the River Kwai, a part of the Death Railway constructed by Allied prisoners of war. Take leisurely walks around town and pictures on the world-renowned Death Railway.

Train ride on Death Railway through magnificent scenery, passing over the original wooden viaduct constructed by Allied POWs.

Lunch at local restaurant.

Visit Soi Yoke Elephant Camp. Feeding the food to elephants at Soi Yoke Elephant Camp.
Then experience exciting elephant ride into the jungle for 45 minutes past bamboo trees and hanging creepers.

Continue the trip by taking bamboo raft adventure for 30-45 minutes along River Kwai back to the camp.

Transfer to Resotel Pier. Take a long-tailed boat from pier to get to the resort, passing by unspoiled mountainous jungle scenery.

Dinner and overnight.
Overnight : Saiyoke

Breakfast at the hotel before check out.

Visit Srinakarin Dam, the country’s largest hydro-power producer of electricity. Listen to lecture and take pictures around the reservoir.

Depart the dam for the largest and most beautiful waterfall in the western region, Erawan Waterfall is on the bank of Kwai Yai River in Khao Salop (Erawan) National Park. It is about 2,000 meters tall divided into 7 levels. The atmosphere in this always-verdant national park is serene, peaceful and rich with innumerable plant and flower species, perfectly conducive to sight-seeing and trekking.
Relax, swim and enjoy natural surroundings at own leisure.

Lunch at local restaurant.

Leave from Kanchanaburi pass green paddy fields, villages, and temples then return to Bangkok.  (2-2.5 hours drive)