From Ayutthaya I skipped Bangkok and went to Kanchanaburi. That town's main attraction is the bridge over the river Kwai, famous because of the movie and infamous because all the thousands prisoners of war and Thai people who died building that bridge and the "railway of death" during the WW2.
In Kanchanaburi I stayed two nights sleeping in a bamboo hut on the river and visited the WW2 museum which was terribly tacky, seriously I have never seen such lack of good taste and decency. On the first floor there were black and white pictures all mixed and with no sense at all: a portrait of Napoleon next to a picture of a Mongolian riding a horse and then a Dutch prisoner in Kanchanaburi! also the titles of the portraits were all wrong, for example Napoleon was marked as Bismarck, Lincoln as George Washington, and so on... But that wasn't enough... On the second floor of the same museum there was an exhibition about... Miss Thailand!! So wrong...
The bridge was full of tourists and most of them whistling the soundtrack of the movie...
So I left Kanchanaburi to Sanghklaburi and what a beautiful town I found! I thought I would never see anything like that in Thailand because this country is very modern so every single little town has its 7/11 shop (convenience store) but Sanghklaburi hasn't... hurray! It felt a bit (only a bit) like being back in Laos. The scenery was breathtaking, a massive lake and nice mountains around and the most beautiful flowers and the people so relaxed...
Of course I ended up staying there longer than previewed...but in the end I had to leave. I wanted to take a train to the south of Thailand and the train was leaving from Nakhom Pathom. When I got there I had a few hours to kill so it was my big opportunity to see... tachan tachan... the biggest stupa in Thailand, yippy!!!!!!!! In this country it seems there is a constant race to see who gets to build the biggest thing, sometimes the temples are like theme parks: the biggest sitting Buddha, the biggest laying Buddha, the holiest temple, the highest chedi,... In Sangklaburi I saw a massive laying down Buddha but it was just too funny, I don't think he would make it to the Guinness books of Records, maybe as the tackiest?
The biggest EVER stupa was surrounded by the night market, yes yes, my favorite place in every town and I celebrated it eating sweet beans, yummy!
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Hola diablo amarillo! estaba releyendo los textos en inglés, con ayuda del diccionario, y pensando escribirte algo, como p.e. "QUEREMOS FOTOS TUYAS". Bueno ya ves que nos soy muy imaginativa, pero es que aquí no hay budas ni estupas ni mucho menos grandes lagos con grandes montañas, etc., pero eso sí, ya ha empezado la época de las fresas y nos las estamos comiendo solas, con nata, con licor y en macedonia. También nos hartamos de alcachofas fritas, hervidas, al horno, a la brasa, en tortilla... Bueno ya ves, me lo paso bien, no como tu que solo comes arroz con ésto, arroz con lo otro, monchetas dulces, monchetas podridas... ecs! uvas picantes, tallos de bambú como los osos panda... por eso te pones redondita, como un osito panda.
Me ha divertido mucho lo que cuentas del museo de la guerra, es como el museo de los disparates, muy curioso, si señor; que importa nada mientras los turistas se sigan dejando el dinero visitando falsas ciudadelas y comprando artículos falsificados.
Por lo demás veo que sigues pasándolo muy bien y yo me alegro very, very much.
Hasta pronto, te quiere tu madre.
Hola Claudia, acabamos de recibir una postal del puente del rio Kwai., escrita el día 5 de este mes. Muchas gracias, es muy bonita.
Besotes!!!
Mama
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