Bus to Lop Buri

Bridge:  For some reason, Kanchanaburi seems to have terrible transport links to other towns and cities.  Althought the train to Bangkok is only 1.5hours, we didn't want to back-track then have to take another train north again.  So we decided to go the local route.

We tood a local bus - similar to the Zim ZUPCO buses - to a town called Suphanburi - just 100km away.  At BHT45 per person we thought it was well worth it only until we discovered it took 3 hours and had no doors (i.e. they didn't close) and that the driver insisted on stopping every few 100meters to pick up passengers.

Suphanburi, we soon realised "no speak Engleesh" so after a fari bit of hand gesturing and negotiating bus prices by entering the digits onto a calculator, we found a bus that departed for Lopburi at 14;30pm.  Another 1.5hours to kill we went to check out the station 'restaurant' and each settled for a plate of extremely unappetizing Pad Thai.  To give you a breakdown of the experience, just imagine this:  eating a box of office elastic bands sprinkled with a handful of crushed nuts and 2 handfuls of sugar.

After another 3 hour long bus journey through rural farm lands we arrived in Lop Buri at 5:30pm.  250kms in over 7 hours!  (for the cheap price of BHT105 per person).  We spent the night at Noon Guesthouse.