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There is quite a lot too see in this little town, the main thing being the bridge on the river Kwai. The Wat Tham Khaopoon caves were good, very deep and quite long, take water as it the air gets a bit thick at the bottom and you need a drink. More wats than you can shake a stick at, for a religion with no gods Buddhists have a lot of places to go and pray, I shall have to find out why. The ones we saw were very impressive though, lots of dragons, golden Buddha's and statues. The war museums are a little naff, they're all the same, mainly pictures of the bridge being built, the big one by the bridge is best though. Getting around. This area is quite big so you will need some way of getting around, we chose the moped option, there are lots of organised tours that take you for whole days out in a coach or air-con mini bus. You could also make your own way around on the local buses, the same type that took us to Phuket, they cheap. Just to put you off that idea though, as we came into Arawan national park, through the point where you have to pay, it turns onto a quite steep down hill section of road, there are 20kph speed signs everywhere. At the first bend we came across a lot of people, police included, were standing around looking over the edge into a large bus shaped whole in the jungle where it had failed to turn the corner and had continued over and down 50m or so of very steep hill side. Accommodation. We stayed in the VL Guesthouse which is in the LP. It was excellent and cheap, 350b for twin room with aircon and hot shower and TV. Although they are doing some building work out the back at the moment so you don't get a lay in past 8am. The people that run it are really friendly and the food was nice, big portions as well. |