okay so hello and welcome back or welcome if you are new here my name is josie welcome to
my channel today we have a a very special video we are in kanchanaburi in case you aren't caught
up watch this video then go watch my last one we arrived here in kanchanaburi we had a look around
but today we're gonna go and we're going to rent a bike we're going to go to the famous war memorial
and the cemetery and then we're going to go to the even more famous bridge over the river hawaii
then we're going to check into a place that we're going to stay tonight but that is
top secret so you're going to have to watch to find out where we end up but make sure you
like and subscribe and now let's see what we've got up to it today in cantonbury day number two
okay so we have got here to the death and railway museum where you can kind of see
the artifacts and get some more info about what happened to the people of war here from
all different countries and nationalities and again from australians which i'm australian so
we're going to learn a little bit more about what happened to them and how this railway was built
under the really sad and dire circumstances that it was so let's go have a look i don't
think we can take video so we might have to talk about it in a second let's go check it out
so we just caught out of the museum death railway museum museum the railway that the prisoners
of war were i guess under direction of the japanese who were occupying thailand at the time
forced to build this railway so the japanese could get directly to myanmar rather than have to go
around singapore if you know geography a bunch of soldiers who were prisoners of war under the
japanese dying trying to help the japanese build this railway so pretty horrific stuff only sort of
you know 70 years ago i just wanted to sort of touch on what we saw in the museum
as we weren't allowed to take any videos i didn't want to vlog in there but we saw how
they were sort of like a mock-up version of how they were put into the train cabins so we also saw
a little scaled version of what it sort of looked like as they were building it
we saw a visual representation based on nails each nail represented 500 deaths
and where they came from australia malaysia british american they were severely malnourished
as they were fed only like a little over 2000 calories a day which wasn't enough for anyone let
alone all the work that they're doing building the railway we saw artifacts that were recovered one
of them said australia which again were australian so that kind of hits a little bit home for us
we saw like scaled versions of the carriages on the trains and everything like that so we just saw
a little bit about what it would have been like back then as well so let's have a look around
the cemetery and the australian area is just back there so we're going to walk around that
one so we're just walking through the war cemetery now and as we were in the museum just earlier it
looked out over this cemetery and i believe we read that this was basically just a mass grave
they didn't bury anyone back when it happened they basically just put bodies in this area and
we've since gone in and put these memorial along the railway itself there was 144 i think i read
earlier um different like makeshift sort of grave sites for everyone that died along the railway
obviously as they die they they bury them along the railway in different grave sites and then
they kind of brought all the names back here and made the plaques out of the names so even if they
read somewhere else they've just remembered them here with a park so and there are bodies
under this ground but it's a mass burial site so we don't know who's where and they're probably
all just chucked in the same sort of burial hole together wow so look at this one uh this one here
it really personalizes it you'll live in my heart our love will never die loving wife's glad oh
so we are just heading up the main sort of street of cantona brewery and we're
just heading to get our bike um it's just a little bit easier to go and adventure and go to
places that are a little bit further away and all the things we want to do over the next couple of
days with the bike so we're just on the way to grab it now it is so hot if you can see me sweat
that is literally sweat it's pretty gross then after this obviously we're gonna have a little
quick trip i'll stop at the bridge over the on the river kwai and then we're gonna keep
heading on to the place that we're staying tonight which you're gonna stick around to see because
it's worth it all right let's go get this bike so this is really cute if you watched our videos
from a while ago when we were in chiang mai last we actually got a yellow bike the first time and
we're getting a yellow bike this time and we named it bumblebee so maybe we should name this one
bumblebee number two let me know in the comments a little bit of water on the lens and i can't get
that off just yet but just so you have like an idea it was 1500 1500 for three days which is
very expensive for chiang mai yeah but i looked at the only two places that had 155 cc blacks
in um kanchanaburi and that was the cheapest out of the two so yeah account for a little
bit more on um bike rental if you want to get one in cantona brewery but oh doggies
we're gonna head back to the hotel now and then we're on the way we had just filled up with
petrol on the way back from getting the bike and we went past a street that said um bridge over the
river quiet and we were just like let's just come we'll just do it now here we are change of plans
but this is the bridge over the river quiet it's very um there's lots of market stalls
i guess lots of people obviously attraction will come here so it's a little bit instagram
versus reality right now where there's a lot of people in one one spot if you can see
but that's the bridge right there
so this is the bridge on the river quiet and there's a little restaurant i don't know if you
can see it down there and we're probably gonna head there for some lunch before we get going
on our hours trip on the bike but why don't you tell us a little bit about the room
well we've already kind of talked about the other other history of it and this is this
is essentially like the famous part of the railroad track and josie will show you later
on but you'll see like the pylons that the bridge is actually on like it's a metal bridge now but
it was a bamboo bridge when it was built and it was bombed in the war and knocked down um but the
cement pylons that were built have covered the bridge are the same pylons so you can see the
like bomb mask you see the bomb and that sort of stuff on the side of it but yeah pretty famous you
can see these little black platforms um that we're standing on right now and basically the
train's still operational and runs through here i didn't know that until about a second ago and
i was like what do we do if the train comes and he was just like get out yeah you're on the train on
the train track when the train comes don't be you just have to stand on one of these little
platforms off to the side and let the train go past and if they're full run run run really fast
so those pegs we saw at the museum today that were salvaged and put in the museum are from this
bridge they're everywhere we just walked through all of them and just bit weird to find that they
came from this exact place so it is a bit busy here just for reference it's about three o'clock
in the afternoon and there's a lot of people look at this go straight back that way it's crazy it's
still in operation so this is really funny because up until now we always just have a luggage bag
with us we're not like backpackers we don't really travel light to be honest we're usually over our
luggage limit but on this trip to kanchanabu we only decided to bring our little backpack things
just to house like a couple of bits of clothes just for the three or four days that we're here
but now we can't fit it in the motorbike so everything's on the floor and we're trying
to pack it all up but i think i'm gonna have to i don't know i'm gonna do my camera gear so
we're just in the middle of figuring uh this mess out and then we're on the hour-ish drive to this
place that we're staying in again stick around for it i haven't seen it it's gonna be very nice
turn it up windows down
okay i know i look funny right now but we have about 15 minutes to go
and we both have very sore behinds from sitting on the bike it's probably been about
50 minutes 40 minutes i'm not sure but we saw a silence had coffee again we've just
pulled over i'm not going to pull my camera out because i had to disassemble it to put it in
the bag so i'm just on the gopro at the moment but we just found a sign that
said coffee we're only about 15 minutes away though so it shouldn't be too long
in sick in the morning baby don't leave
they don't need to know we're out here wild and free
they say we're crazy it's too much
and yeah we're crazy
oh this is everything with you right next to me
so alive and tonight i'm thinking that i don't wanna go
okay well i am burnt from that ride look at that so we have made it to the float house we're in
saiyok just sort of outside of kanchanaburi we got here and we pulled into the car park
we parked the motorbike we went down onto this pier we saw a dog and then we got on this
boat that took us up the river i've never done a trip like that before ever i've never caught a
boat like that and traveled up a beautiful river like that ever in my life it was amazing we got
off here at the float house and all of these houses are just like on this on the river
this is crazy and this is what you guys told me to do you told me to come to like one of the floating
places so i'm so glad that we're here it's really late it's probably quarter past six
and we haven't eaten basically all day so we're about to go get some dinner but first let me show
you our room okay so i figured that showing you vlog style is probably going to give you like
the best connection with this place so you can see it kind of how i see it this veranda um backyard
we have is on the river it's floating we've got all the other houses down there and then obviously
the river this way now we've seen some people jump in over here and then just kind of float
down the river to the end so like this video if you'd like me to do that because otherwise i
don't know if i'm brave enough but that's what we have out here and then we have two chairs
just on this part so you can sit here and enjoy the amazing river views now heading inside
and we have the bedroom straight away looking straight out onto the river which is amazing we
have a little tv the air con is on so we'll see if it even calls it down because michael and i
like it really really cold over in this corner you have the chairs um just a little sitting area or
you can eat some food there or whatever you'd like just in front of the bed which is really exciting
there's so many things it's actually a lot bigger than you think so coming past these chairs this is
the front door you have some nibblies like a mini bar type thing now i haven't really
explored yet so i'm assuming that's locked okay i don't know what that is coming through this way
from the front door you have a little reading corner with a little desk you have a place to
put your bags which we've already done and you can get some work done here that's to be really
good for me editing some vlogs tonight because the work doesn't stop now coming through here
we have the bathroom so this is really cool you have the like basin here and it's out in this one
room that there is and you come into this door and you have the shower in this room that is so cool
i love that it's a open so this is basically an outdoor shower because this opens all the way so
an indoor outdoor shower the first one i've ever seen now come out this way to this other door
past the basin and you have the toilet now this one is an indoor outdoor which is good
you probably want this one quiet private now we come back out through here and that's basically
the tour so we are just going to sit here and kind of decompress for a second enjoy sort of
the view out here and then we're probably going to go grab some food because it's a little bit past
lunch and dinner we haven't eaten not any food at all no we had a muffin at starbucks this morning
that's it wow let's go eat so change your plans we're actually just going
to order room service so we can enjoy these seats on our riverfront floating
balcony before the sun goes just before the sun goes down so hopefully they come in time
um before it gets too dark and you can't see and the sun sets so look how burnt i am from the
ride what did you get a blue margarita and i got a tequila sunrise just to enjoy this amazing view
that we have in front of us here so hopefully it comes in time before the sun goes down so it took
about an hour and a half to get dinner but besides that we are really tired and hungry by now we've
got the omelette michael got some chicken wings and michael got a burger with some chips and i got
a like stir-fried sort of prawn thing um in some oyster sauce sorry for not getting thai food it's
been a really long day i got thai food no like for them they'll see me getting a burger oh
yeah michael michael felt like some western food tonight it was a long day with no food when i'm
really hungry i swan yeah he likes burgers when he gets really hungry oh don't knock the food
okay so we're going to probably eat this and then just smell it we're going to eat this and probably
head to bed soon i have some editing to do and it's pretty late now so all right so i'm
gonna leave this one here i'm gonna get stuck into this food and make sure you do like and subscribe
we have an amazing day coming up tomorrow we're gonna visit the erawan falls is that how i say it
everyone falls and we're gonna go to hellfire pass and do a whole bunch of other things here near
brewery so make sure you like and subscribe watch what's coming up next and thank you so much for
being here thank you so much for watching to the end and i'll see you in the next one bye