my name's josie and we're here on the river Kwai in Kanchanaburi thailand
and what better way to start the day than this
okay we gotta get to josie
hopefully she hasn't gone under the under this place because it's all on stilts
i'm so scared
i can hear her screaming i was like hey she's so much further ahead than me though it's
actually kind of relaxing no i'm still scared i'm sitting in front of me um um
there's a big branch in front of me i'm trying to slow down so i don't hit it i'm scared
oh my oh there she is let's catch her
help me
where do i grab try and get on the end here
i probably should have checked what i'm actually meant to do before i did this
where help me
i'm so scared land split oh there's no scary sea creatures on land
i did it oh my god that was so scary oh there was a massive massive branch in front of me
the whole way down it was sticking out where is it that thing in the middle can you see
yeah yeah with the big sticks pointing at the top yeah it was directly in front of me i'll
try to slow down the whole time so i didn't run into it well all right there will not be a take
two of that i'll tell you okay so i'm back on our little balcony from jumping in the um the river
um just so you know i i'm not that big of a scaredy cat but this is my only fear like open
water like things in the water jumping into water that i can't see like it's literally my biggest
fear in the whole wide world so that might explain why i was a little bit more scared than normal
but we're here and we're just actually about to pack up we have to check out in like an hour um i
think the plan is to go drop our bags at the next hotel and then from there we're going to go on a
big road trip we're going to go past um hellfire pass and then to aero1 falls to the waterfall
so it's going to be a really exciting vlog um hopefully it started out good for you because
that was terrifying for me and i did it for you so make sure you like and subscribe
so that my efforts don't go to waste but we're gonna pack up here and then head on out
for a drive we're probably gonna spend about three hours on the motorbike today so
pray for my behind that i can feel it by the end of this all right i might sit here for a second
soak up oh the thailand heat to get dry i'll see you shortly so we're just heading in the boat now
on the way back to the main spot where we parked our bike and everything
well let's hope it's still there we haven't seen it for a day or so
okay so we just came off the boat that's down there and now we have to climb up this lovely
cliff to our bike and we haven't seen it for a few days or overnight so we're hoping it's still there
and then if it is we're gonna i'm already tired we're gonna head back and just drop
off our bags at the next hotel um there's also a massive hill here
still there oh there's a massive hill up here that i don't even know if the bike will get up so
hopefully we get up the hill it's a big hill
we just sort of got here from riding the bike now pro tip we drove past it because
we followed google maps so if you're coming here go to the what is it the type in there
type in hellfire pass interpretive interpretive
not hellfire pass in general because it'll take you to like the actual part we kind of know
through road you can't you can't ride through there and there was signs and there was like
it was literally nothing there so pro tip for you now we're here and it's also actually the
day before anzac day so we see that there's some things probably set up for the morning
ready for everything to go ready for the service the dawn service and everything but we made it and
let's see what there is and what we can access so once you arrive at that interpretive center you're
basically put into a little like memorial type um room that gives you just some facts and some
more info about hellfire pass and everything like that it's funded by the australian government um
it's free so you can come and have a look at that and it just gave us a little bit more of a like
graphic sort of visualization as to what actually happened there was you know pictures of the men
who had passed and the men who had come home there was some facts on the wall it showed us sort of
the location of where this was in relation to you know burma the rest of thailand malaysia and
everything like that and it was pretty intense and we saw videos of the australian men who had
actually come back from that and they were talking about their experience and it was pretty full on
so now we're actually just about to head down here these stairs and walk about a kilometer
to the place that we've actually just learned about for the last two days and what actually
happened here and what it took to make this railway so let's go check it out let's go look
so we're at hellfire past now you can see the railway tracks just popping through um to show you
that it went straight through the mountain this is cut out by all those people to keep
the railway keep to keep the railway going all the way to burma burma yeah
through the mountains so as we're walking through hellfire past you can like just see i know it's
rock but you can just see like bits in it where it kind of looks like like the pickaxes like that's
the part that they hit when they were like carving this out of the actual rock of the mountain this
is insane look how long it is and it wasn't a year it took them a year it's crazy and we're
lucky enough to sort of almost be here right now it's rocky to almost be here on our own so
as we're walking back through here you can see bits of like the wood popping through the floor
it's pretty surreal being here but we also saw where they put like their pins the people was
it the survivors who came back survivors who came back and put their like their um
like metals or pins and things like that or maybe even just pins from that particular battalion
i don't know whether this is a sign or not but we also saw a butterfly a couple of butterflies
on the floor and when we're upstairs we're reading that this one man who was a prisoner of war
while building this he said that he used to stay up all night during butterflies
because you know basically he was saying if he was going to be a prisoner of war anywhere he was kind
of glad it was somewhere as beautiful as thailand which is so sad they have the obelisk back there
to remember and the thai australian and new zealand flag up there as well so that's anzac
day over here of anzac day it's the australian new zealand army corps new
zealand's a different country to australia but we're so close they're like our little brothers
okay bit of a change in plans we're not going to the ireland falls right now
we actually took a little bit longer than we thought at hellfire pass we just wanted to
take it all in and we um took it all in for a bit longer than planned so we didn't have time
to go to the waterfall today but stick around anyway we have this amazing bit of accommodation
that we're about to show you we will be going to the falls tomorrow so
subscribe for that one as well let's go look where we're staying i don't even know yet it's
a surprise so i don't know what we're doing for tomorrow bring five people syrup to your room
okay i feel like i'm 40 degrees hot like right now but this is a surprise to me so michael booked
this i had no idea what's going on and she kept saying bubble so that's gonna be exciting stay
tuned for that but right now we got this little complimentary room because it's too hot in that
right now and i'll show you in a minute because i got a little sneak peek when we walk past so
stick around to see what it really looks like but we're just in this little aircon room we can come
back to this whenever we want whenever we want yeah because right now it's like super super hot
you'll probably cook in the morning too yeah so we're just gonna lay here for a minute cool down
because we've been like riding on the bike all day um yeah so what i was saying before is that we
decided to come here straight from the hellfire pass i have a saw back and then another two hours
drive on the bike today was just not gonna really work for me to get to the waterfall and back um
and this was close to hellfire past so we decided just to come here it was also going to be too
late if we went to the waterfall we wouldn't have got back here till like night time so here we are
make sure you like and subscribe because tomorrow we're going to show you the arrow on falls we're
going to go there on the way home so make sure you subscribe for that but let me relax and i'm going
to show you this amazing place we're staying in so we're here and we're heading down to this mystery
place that we're staying tonight that michael's big book for me so you get this room that we're
staying in just then we just decompressed there's air corn in there it's been really hot the last
couple of nights the airport in the places we have been staying hasn't been amazing so
we've been super hot but this place just gives you that complimentary room so you can stay in
there if you don't want to stay in these places wherever we're going now i'm not sure you're
going to find out when i found out so let's find out what these cool things are what that's what
we're staying in the rooms are up on stills we're in the actual water in the water it's on the water
okay they moved more than i thought they did oh this is so cool
hello so afternoon tea just arrived so we might have that first and then we'll get back to you
i pull into your driveway
girl i can tell that you have something
welcome so this is our bubble home for the night come here i thought we'd give
you a quick tour before we enjoy this place for ourselves for the rest of the night and
the sun goes down and hopefully it does go down soon because it is actually really hot
inside we actually in a second so we can't really go in there yet so hopefully the sun goes down so
it can cool down and we can enjoy the place to the fullest but let me show you a little
bit of a tour we did kind of just get here so i'm still trying to figure out things myself
but we'll start with the front door it has they're all lined with like these
so you can have a little bit of privacy at night time when you close all these and you kind of have
the little raft to yourself so over here we have our little egg bubble heart thing you walk into
the main part of the bubble which has a little bed it's not a big bed and i haven't sat on it
yet so i don't know if it's hard or soft looks like a double or a queen and there is a aircon
little component in there but it's working overdrive right now to make the bubble colder
than it is because it has heat up obviously during the day with the sun straight on it there's some
stairs and it brings you straight onto a little i guess breakfast bar where you can sit have your
feet in the water have a drink or two on basically the river and there's a little let down there as
well for some instagram shots so the one last thing that we have here on our little raft is
our jacuzzi so bubbles come up is it hot water it's warm warm water which is good in the heat
good because we i was actually wanting it to not be hot so that we can get a little bit
refreshed because i am sweating like no tomorrow up here in kanchanaburi but it has a cool little
plank that i guess you can rest your drinks on or your food on while you have a jacuzzi but this is
where we're going to stay tonight so how exciting once in a lifetime little bubble on the river kwai
so we just found where to put the lights on and it looks really cool with the fairy lights on the
entrance on the around the globe itself and also around the cheque
you're right there and also around the like jacuzzi spa hot tub um but we're just enjoying a
few drinks so i might leave you here i think but thank you for coming along with me today again
like and subscribe we're gonna go to the waterfall tomorrow so i definitely want you to see that
and i'll see you in the next one bye so we were having such a good night until it came time to
go to bed to be honest i'm pretty disappointed i just feel like i didn't get like the experience
that i've paid for this extra room they've given us is like we're in it but this isn't the
room that we paid to be in and i'm just feeling really disappointed this isn't a collaboration
we've paid for this well michael paid for this for us as a surprise to me and he paid a lot of money
the bubble you cannot stain that it's so hot we were in there sweating we messaged
them online and they basically said oh sorry about that so we're in this free hotel room
but it's a 20 a night hotel room we definitely did not pay 20 we paid a lot more money for this and
this is the only room we can use i just i just feel like if you pay for a luxury experience
you're meant to get a luxury experience and this is not a luxury experience it's disappointing but
i'll update you in the morning make sure you like and subscribe it'll be in the next video because
this one's finished now i thought this would be a better ending so i'll see you in the next one