- Breakfast on board, while cruising smoothly upriver, towards ‘Muang Singh’

- Visit of the historical park sheltering the ‘Prasat Muang Singh’ (Khmer temple from the late Lopburi

  period 700-800 years ago). The ruins of this temple, remind us how big was the Khmer Empire, and how widespread it

  was, far away from Cambodia

- Continue the journey by coach to ‘Thakilen’ Train Station

- Go on a ride on board the old local train to ‘Saphan Tham Krasae’, passing over the long wooden viaduct

- Arrival at ‘Saphan Tham Krasae’ - visit the ‘Krasae Cave’ located on the banks of the river (great point of view - the cavern

  shelters a Buddha image)

- Continue by coach, with a short stop at ‘Sai Yok Elephant Village’, located on the right bank of Kwai Noi River

  (Optional: half an hour elephant riding through the jungle and along the ‘Kwai Noi’ river – 300Thb per person)

- Lunch on board while cruising upriver & Afternoon is fully at leisure (Optional: 1 hour Thai traditional massage – 500Thb per person)

- Dinner and overnight on board near the ‘Resotel’ (Optional: 45 minutes Mon dances performance – 150Thb per person)

- Breakfast on board

- From the landing stage, walk uphill to visit ‘Kaeng Lava Cave’, which eatures admirable stone draperies and superb

  concretions in large chambers

- Cruise upriver to ‘Ban Haad Ngiu’, followed by a short journey by coach to ‘Hell Fire Pass’, (stony mountain cut by prisoners of war,

  to lay tracks of the Death Railway)

- Return to boat and lunch while cruising upriver

- Journey to ‘Sai Yok Yai’ waterfalls. The afternoon is at leisure on the boat

- Stop for a visit at a school nearby the banks of ‘Kwai Noi’ river, which was built to welcome refugee’s children

- Back on the boat and carry on cruising smoothly upriver

- Farewell Dinner and overnight on board at ‘Daowadueng Bridge’

DAY 4

- Optional early morning start (7am) to offer food to monks (gaining merits, according to Thai tradition) at a temple in the vicinity

- Breakfast on board

- Disembark and go back to Kanchanaburi by coach

- On the way, a stop to visit the Thailand-Burma Railway Center Museum and visit the ‘Donrak War Cemetery’, where 6,982 allied

  prisoners of war were buried who died during the construction of the “Death Railway”

- Journey continues to the world famous 'Bridge over the River Kwai' which was a crucial part of the Death Railway

  (The bridge was afterwards destroyed during allied bombing raids, by the end of World War II but  later rebuilt by the

  Japanese, as war reparations)

- Lunch at ‘River Kwai’ Restaurant, next to the bridge

- End journey by air-conditioned coach to Bangkok

- Arrival in Bangkok and transfer to your hotel or to Bangkok Airport (around 6pm)