Laying in the sun, riding elephants, and diving with sharks

Koh Phangan, Thailand
May 2, 2009
1:30pm

So the last two days were pretty fun but with some intense traveling. After we left Bangkok we went to see the bridge over the River Kwai. It was built by the Japanese during the second world war and over 100,000 prisoners of war from all over the world died constructing it and the 500KM rail line. Leaving there we heading for the train station and to see one of the largest pagodas in the world. I forgot the name of it right now. Once we boarded the train we had a 13 hour overnight train ride, which was not too bad. we spent some time in the disco train car. I was happy to get off the train and get closer to Koh Phangan, we first had to take a large boat to the island. This whole trip took a total of about 26 hours.

Now that we are on the island I am loving it. We all went swimming yesterday, which included night swimming. Today we are going to ride some elephants through the jungle and tomorrow we are going to go diving around Sail Rock. Sail Rock is supposed to be pretty amazing and has a large variety of fish there and whale sharks. The best part is that the visibility is around 20M so we should see everything.

Ill post tomorrow about everything and hopefully get some pictures and video up with me on the elephant. I'm leaving for that in 30 minutes so I gotta get going. Peace