River Kwai - Relaxation at the Beautiful Floating Jungle Rafts

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Rating: 4.0; Vote: 1

The River Kwai is a beautiful river with a brutal history. Spending time relaxing on the River Kwai is an incredibly peaceful experience, more here - I had the opportunity to go on a media blogger trip to the Kanchanaburi province of Thailand. Along with doing some activities like visiting the bridge over the River Kwai and going to Hellfire Pass museum, the highlight of the trip was most definitely the stay at the River Kwai Jungle Rafts, a floatel in the middle of the river. To get there you first have to board a longtail boat and take the boat upstream for about 15 minutes until arriving. The day we went it was a little rainy, but that didn't take away from the beauty of cruising up the river. The water is a little chocolate brown, but the lush green cliffs and the steep walls of the banks of the river made the entire atmosphere extremely gorgeous. We arrived to the River Kwai Jungle Rafts, a true relaxing oasis surrounded only by the beautiful sounds of the jungle. The room was basic, but very comfortable. They don't have any power at the rafts, so all light is handled by kerosene lantern, which I thought could potentially be a little dangerous with the wooden rafts - nevertheless, that's what they used. The jungle rafts are a long series of floating houses that float on huge floaters. On top of the floaters and beautifully constructed wooden houses which are then covered by thatch roofing. The rooms are clean and there's a nice balcony on both the front and the back of the rooms where you can sit and watch the River Kwai peacefully go by. After settling in to our room and shooting a little bit of this video, we headed for dinner, which is served table by table family style. The food is served from the main dining room which was located next to the lobby. Unfortunately the food was a little on the bland side as it really catered to foreign travelers, but nevertheless, it was pretty good and it included a good mixture of different dishes. I would have been a little more pleased had the food been a little more Mon traditional, but that's alright. After dinner we were invited to watch a traditional dance and
Date: 2019-08-19

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Comments and reviews: 10

Robert Honer
Hi Mark thanks for the video, my wife and I stayed on the river back in 2004. Thank you for bringing back such good memories. Befriended a fellow traveler and we spent time jumping off the restaurant patio tinto the river being carried down river and repeating a couple times. Btw there is a Hmong school down the river and my wife and I had a wonderful time spending some time with the teachers and children. What a wonderful experience and the local people we met were such nice people.
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Dude
hahaha I did not see the Mark facial expression after eating some good food hehe. Hey Mark, people are dying for more content, maybe you could re tittle this vlog to River hotel which was missing in the description, then you could get more views for this vlog, you should go through the old vlogs and recycle some as an experiment, if it works then recycle more but hand chose and select them. I don't know if you will see this comment?
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Lucy L.G.
This looks amazing, the way they made a hotel on top of some rafts? Is incredible, I would be scared of swimming in the river, it looks like an anaconda could come ouy at any second (sorry overactive imagination)
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Joachim Reinhold
As I am vegan, I kindly asked them to provide the items I needed, went into their kitchen and amazed everyone with my own cooking. Cooking at Floatingtel was an adventure I wouldn't want to have missed.
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vacationboyvideos
Wow mark ate the bland food and did not give us that normal awesome smile look he is so famous for. Good idea the life jacket Good Diverse amount of footage Another thumbs up video Go mark
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Mark Wiens
Hey Robert, glad you've stayed along the river as well, glad this brought back some memories. Thanks for sharing about the school, didn't know about that, but sounds like a fantastic experience
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Mark Wiens
Hey Kevin, it was a lot of fun swimming there The bridge that collapsed was in Sangkhlaburi, and we were still quite close to Kanchanaburi town, but that's sad news, it was a really nice bridge
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Elephant99Man99
i was also on river kwai in february on a similar floating hotel. very nice jungle surroundings and those mountains. we also visited erawan waterfalls which were also astonishing.
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Oscar In Asia
I've been to Kanchanaburi province a couple of times (to visit the bridge/war museum) and I always wondered what it would be like to stay at the River Kwai rafts. Nice video.
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Mark Wiens
I'm really not sure, but I think depending on if you get food or not, somewhere around 60 - 70? That's an estimate, I think it may vary by season as well.
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