Sangklaburi

[aubreystrawberry]

Hello,

I've heard of this place, small and quaint. Can anybody tell me more? What they like, best way to get there, good inexpensive but nice place to stay. I beleive we will be heading here after Kanchanaburi and then from Sangklaburi head back to BKK.

Thank you!

[craigt3365]

http://wikitravel.org/en/Sangkhlaburi

http://www.kanchanaburi.com/english/tr-sungkha.shtml

Can't offer any personal help as I've never been, but if you go, could you do a trip report for us? Pictures also would be great!! I'd love to visit this place.

[aubreystrawberry]

http://wikitravel.org/en/Sangkhlaburi

http://www.kanchanaburi.com/english/tr-sungkha.shtml

Can't offer any personal help as I've never been, but if you go, could you do a trip report for us? Pictures also would be great!! I'd love to visit this place.

I believe we are going to check it out so yes, I would be more than happy to do a trip report with photos! The bridge there looks cool and the cultural diversity sounds interesting as well.

[Birdman]

best with own vehicle. On the way you will enjoy an endless and tense rain forest to the right and a huge, quiet lake on the left, where you even can rent a nice house boat. Sangklaburi itself is extraordinary. The 3 pagoda pass however isn't worth the ride, better take a boat out to the lake, maybe to the temple under water.

[Robby nz]

Been there twice this year, once to check it out and the second to take some friends from NZ.

Depends what you like doing, we are interested in the nature aspect so suited us fine.

Did a boat trip and elephant ride arranged by P Guest house

Will look up the diary and post what we thought were the best places to stay tomorrow. and a bit more about how we got there and what we did.

[Robby nz]

Been there twice this year, once to check it out and the second to take some friends from NZ.

Depends what you like doing, we are interested in the nature aspect so suited us fine.

Did a boat trip and elephant ride arranged by P Guest house

Will look up the diary and post what we thought were the best places to stay tomorrow. and a bit more about how we got there and what we did.

[Robby nz]

Been there twice this year, once to check it out and the second to take some friends from NZ.

Depends what you like doing, we are interested in the nature aspect so suited us fine.

Did a boat trip and elephant ride arranged by P Guest house

Will look up the diary and post what we thought were the best places to stay tomorrow. and a bit more about how we got there and what we did.

[Robby nz]

First off, apologies for the triple post yesterday, don't know what went wrong.

OK Sanklaburi and (first) something on Kanchanaburi, cant really have one without the other.

We were a party of 4 adults and 2 children traveling by public transport.

Kanchanaburi, stayed at Tara B & B www.tararoom.com (good place) on the way up to Sanklaburi and also on the way back.

Not to be missed in Kanchanaburi is the war cemetery in town and the railway museum, emotional place, walking distance from Tara (for us)

We also stayed at Erawan national park for a couple of nights but that is possibly closed now.

We hired a van for 2 days and did a circle the fist day then on the second we went up to Sanklaburi stopping at Wang Po Viaduct and Hellfire Pass on the way.

We stayed at Forget Me Not Houses resort Ph 034 5950156,(no web site) we stayed there because we got 2 rooms, (rooms 118 & 119) with bathrooms, together on a self contained area that kept our group together. The rooms were fan only and had seen better days but suited us, there was a big outside area with frig, table and chairs overlooking the lake. 1200b per night for both rooms.

They also have Air con rooms.

Other accommodation options we looked at were : Kaemtong Home Stay Ph 034 595402 and 08 71537187, Air, HW, TV, 900b pn . Fan 500b, looked good.

P Guest House http://www.p-guesthouse.com/package.html

All of these places are about 3 or 4 hundred meters from the middle of town (for what it is).

There are also other bigger 'Resorts' with prices to match.

We also had a look at a backpackers place in the center of town but the prices were very steep and it had shared toilets.

There is very little public transport in Sanklaburi only motorbike taxis, we used one with a sidecar to get back from the other side of the Mon bridge and you can hire a song tau as private hire but the price can be anywhere from 100b up.

We did a P Guest house boat ride, elephant ride, bamboo raft trip, package 2 on their website, without the overnight stay, a lot different from the elephant rides elsewhere and good from our prospective.

Walked across the Mon bridge and around the market and that's about it.

We also went to the 3 pagodas pass on the regular Song Tau. Worth the trip just for the experience if you have never been on one of them.

Nothing much up there but as usual the ladies enjoyed the market.

If I can be of any more help let me know , Robby