The Railway

We spent the day travelling on the railway to Nam Tok which was the site of the hospital field station during the building of the railroad.We sped through the glorious countryside of Thailand and constantly marvelled at the difficult terrain that the prisoners experienced during their time on the railroad. The journey took 2 hours each way on very uncomfortable wooden seats. Nam Tok was very much a one-horse town or should I say one elephant or to be precise a 3 elephant town. Elephants are great favourites of the Thais but since logging was banned some years ago many elephants have become unemployed so they are put to other used such as entertaining tourists as they did for us although we do intend to go to a proper Elephant Conservation Centre if we get the chance. There werea number of Japanese tourists on the train snapping away - presumably they were marvelling at the marvellous engineering!
Tonight we went to the night market where we had numerous goodies all for about the equivalent of 4 pounds but sadly not any beer which is something we are going to rectify shortly. There were very few tourists about and it was good to seethe Thais enjoying themselves at the various food stalls .
Tomorrow first thing we are heading north .