We woke up just before 7 today to get ready as we were being picked up between 7.15-7.30, about 2 minutes after our alarm went off reception called to tell us our bus was here! So we scrambled to get dressed and ready and we were out by 15 past, our driver was already a little pissed off, too bad for him he had to wait another 20-30 minutes at our hotel for 1 other girl! As you can guess he was very pissed off by that stage. He zoomed through the city streets like a psycho to the first of many bus changes for us today, so bus change #1, we were split into different groups and off we went again. Fast forward about 3 hours and we arrived at the bridge over the river Kwai, here we went into probably the lamest museum ive ever been in and then walked over the bridge, a quick drive away we stopped at a war cemetery for about 10 minutes and then off again to have some lunch, after lunch was our 2nd bus change and off we went to a small waterfall, looked around here for about 15 or so minutes and swapped to our 3rd bus and headed to the tiger temple. Once there we quickly ran inside as we only had about an hour to look around, we first came upon the larger tigers which were in a canyon and most were asleep, they were chained up but to be fair they did look in good condition and all of them were in the shade out of the scorching hot sun, here we individually were given the chance to walk around with one of the escorts who told you where you could go/sit/stand and then took photos of you with the tigers. It was all over very quickly and so we moved on to the younger tigers, these tigers were about 7 months old and probably a little smaller then ½ the size of the adults. The younger tigers have an enclosure similar to one you would see at Melbourne zoo and they were very active and playing with each other in the pool they have, there were 2 tigers out of the enclosure that you could pat and sit with for a little while and take some photos, they were absolutely stunning animals, near here was a little nursery where 6 or so cubs were sleeping these tiny little cats were only 7 days old! So cute but hard to see behind all the bars. We didn’t want to leave but our short hour quickly came to an end and we headed back to the bus for our 4th change and next stop, a ride on the Thai - Burma railway, we were only on for 4 stops but it was well and truly enough (neither of us are interested in anyway in trains) and we were both very fed up by the rushed and disorganized tour by this stage (in all honesty we only wanted to see the tigers!). 5th bus change and we were on our way home, 2 and a half hours later we stopped for petrol and to stretch our legs, we all cram back in only to stop 5 minutes later for our 6th bus change which luckily was the last one! 2 couples asked to be dropped off first as they had flights to catch, the driver dropped the first couple off but forgot about the second! Whom then started complaining, the poor driver was so stressed by the end of it he was cursing the traffic and making mistakes like taking us to the wrong hotel, we ended up giving him a tip and told him we hoped his night would get better, it seemed to cheer him up but im guessing the last couple who were the ones complaining and the last on the bus probably gave him a hard time after we had left. So that was pretty much our day, bad tour just trying to squeeze way too much into the day which meant you had no time to enjoy anything really! We went out for dinner and walked back through the market stalls on the way home.
