I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo

Oh no!

Amateur Traveler episode 727. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about railroads and

World War II history, waterfalls and temples, pad tie and the bridge on the river Quai, sort of. As we go to

Kanchinabari, Thailand. Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen, let's talk about

Thailand. I'd like to welcome to the show Michael Derosiers from the Ear Goggles podcast who has come to talk

to us about a region in Thailand we have not talked about before and I'm going to try and

say it and then we'll help Michael pronounce it correctly and that is

Kanchinabary. Michael welcome to the show. That's perfect. Kanchinabary. I did it okay, okay, excellent.

Yeah, thank you so much. I'm glad to be here. Well, and Michael's a long time

listener of the show and Michael, you live now in Thailand. Yeah, that's right. I'm an

American expat. I've been living in Bangkok since 2013.

Like a lot of people, I came here on a one-year teaching contract.

I fell in love with the city and I've always loved traveling and now it's just sort of home.

Seven years later, it just feels like home.

Excellent.

Well and why this particular region that you picked out?

Why should we be talking about Conchinabre?

There's a lot of reasons that people come to Thailand.

People come to Thailand for Bangkok or to go to the beaches and the south.

People come to Thailand to go to temples or to eat the food, but Kanchinabary has some things that people don't necessarily think of when they think of Thailand.

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