No entry here for vehicles today
I noticed lots of motorbikes going along a track so I thought lets follow
Here I am riding my bike in Burma, I never expected to get this far but there were no soldiers anywhere today
This is my first trip to Burma for about four days and I was having withdrawal symptoms
These were all taken whilst riding along as I didnt want to get stopped
I rode to the other end of town but as I didnt have my balaclava with me to hide the white face I didnt want to go too far plus the road wasnt so good now so I turned back
Lots of signs are in English here
Me on the bike in Burma
The closed border from the Burmese side
I was not hassled once today and nobody seemed at all surprised to see a Foreigner on a big bike riding here
I stopped here to take the picture and a policeman came out and chatted with me, he didnt seem bothered at all that I was there. In fact it was only some Thais in four wheel trucks doing the crossing that didnt seem to like me doing the same thing and suggested that I went back
The road back to Thailand
If you want to try it about 1 or 2 km before the border you turn left just after this sign
Heres one of the 4 wheel trucks that I passed coming out of Burma, just go down here
I started back towards Sangkhlaburi then turned left for the waterfall but whereas last year it was deserted now the ranger is there to collect the fee
Piss taking bastards shove it up your arse
Especially when you see this there, its not even worth 20 Baht let alone 200
Its a pleasant winding track down to it though
The very versatile bamboo, notice how everything is from the bamboo tree, even the tying together was done with strips cut from it
Away they go
Towards the end of this road I see this rubber processing place that I didnt notice last year
I decide to take a walk across the bridges late in the afternoon
There are loads of photos up on the wall, I didnt realise that in the wet season the wooden bridge going over to the Mon village was submerged sometimes
Here the temple that gets completely submerged is completely out of the water, I really must get up here at the height of the dry season one year