Hotel

U Inchantree Kanchanaburi is a wonderful location right on the edge of the

River Kwai The location of this boutique hotel is wonderful - right above
the Kwai river. The views in both directions, the sunsets, the location of the
restaurant, the lush grounds and the refreshing pool made our stay very
enjoyable.

U Inchantree Kanchanaburi offer luxury accommodations; blending local heritage and design accents
with modern amenities, services and facilities. We encourage guests to immerse themselves and
experience local culture and heritage at their own pace; creating a memorable and unique experience
with the worlds luxurious hotels.

All hotels and resorts in the U Hotels Group offer unique services and luxurious facilities including:

Breakfast whenever wherever no matter what time you start your day, we serve you
anywhere whether in your room or at the restaurant

24 hour use of room, no matter what time you check in, where you can enjoy your stay from
the time you check in, until the time you check out the next day

Free Wi-Fi internet access everywhere in the hotel

U Choose Programme for pillow, soap and tea selection prior to your arrival

Music selection for your in room iPod with speakers or in room entertainment system

Free bikes and historical library

Infinity swimming pool

Gym with fitness programme

Activity
Elephant Riding
In Thailand Elephants mean a little more than only the worlds largest land
animals, they are Thai national animal. Grab this charming opportunity to
explore the abundant tropical jungle on the back of an enormous elephant. Its
safe, fun and fascinating. Enjoy a ride on Thai elephant into the bamboo forest
and visit Mon Village. One elephant can accommodate 2 persons.

Seeing sight
Prasat Muang Singh Shrine
Prasat Muang Singh is located in Kanchanaburi
It was built in 12th - 14th century
It was built by King Jayavoraman VII
It is opened 9.00 a.m. - 4.30 p.m.
It was made of laterite and sandstone.

Mueang Sing Historical Park

Date built 1180-1219
Creator Jayavarman VII

Mueang Sing (Thai: (Pronunciation)) is a historical park in Sai Yok

District, Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand. It protects the remains of two Khmer
temples dating to the 13th and 14th centuries. It was declared a historical park
in 1987.

Built in the Bayon-style, the temples date to the Khmer kingdom in the reign of
King Jayavarman VII (1180 to 1219). A stone inscription of Prince Vira Kumara
praising his father, 23 cities are named. One of these cities was named Srichaiya
Singhapura, which some scholars identify with Mueang Sing.

The history of the site goes back to the period between 857 and 1157, a period
when the Khmer Kingdom was flourishing. Records show that the town was
abandoned until the reign of King Rama I.[1] The name Mueang Sing first
showed in the chronicles of the reign of King Rama I (1782-1809), when it was
a fortified town protecting the town Kanchanaburi. In the reform of provincial
administration at the end of the 19th century its status was reduced from
Mueang to Tambon (commune).

Four monuments are exist inside the area of 736,000 m enclosed by a laterite
wall. The south wall winds along the Khwae Noi river course, while the other
three sides are quadratic. The main monument is in the center of the area.
Northwest of this are the foundations of a second temple building. The other
two monuments are of much smaller scale.
Prasat Muang Singh is built in square shape area, on the right side of Kwai Noi
River. It covers an area of about 220 acres. The wall surrounded was built with
laterite, 880 meters. There are three gates northern gate, eastern gate and
western gate (The southern one faces to the river, so it doesnt need the gate on
that side).

In the historical park, there are two major sections for visitors to look around.
One of the section is artifact museum, which is a place to keep old objects found
in the historical park. The objects are also exhibited for visitors to educate how
these objects were built and decorated in the past; 2000 year old skeletons found
here are also included in the list of objects shown. The other section is ancient
ruin, which are the real buildings and structures in the historical park. In this
section, visitors can walk around to see cloister in Khmer style, the deity statue
having 8 arms and hands (broken) and many things interesting in Khmer style.

Prasat Muang Singh is not so far from Kanchanaburi city, approximately 40

kilometers on the west. Visitors can go to Prasat Muang Singh by train. Take a
train at the Kanchanaburi city to get to Tha Kilen station, only a kilometer from
Prasat Muang Singh historical park. The park open every day from 8.00 AM
4.30 PM.
 Erawan National Park
Founded in 1975 as Thailands 12th National Park, it is covering an area of km.
Located on West Thailand in the Tenasserim Hills of Kanchanaburi Province, it
is one of the most famous national parks in Thailand.

81% of the park is mixed deciduous forests and the rest deciduous dipterocarp
and dry evergreen forest. The park concists of limestone hills with elevetion
between 165-996m above the sea level, plains and number of streams. The hills
protects the park from eastern monsoon resulting in less rainfall in avarage.

The major attraction of the park is Erawan Falls with emerald green ponds,
named after the three-headed white elephant of Hindu mythology. The top tier
of the falls is said to resemble the elephant's head.

Rainy season is May to October

Winter season with cooler weather is November to January, avegare temperature
of 30C
Summer season is February to April
Due to limited number of trails, wildlife watching possibilities around the
waterfalls are very limited, macaques are common, occasionally water monitor
lizards can be seen walking around water streams. Deeper into the forest some
more exciting animals like Indian muntjac, wild elephants, lar gibbon, mainland
serow, wild boar, sambar deer can be found.

Some of common birds in the park are crested serpent eagle, black-naped
monarch, blue whistling thrush, black-crested bulbul, blue-winged leafbird,
dark-necked tailorbird, green-billed malkoha, grey peacock-pheasant and kalij
pheasant.

Visiting
Erawan National Park is open for visitors 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m everyday all year
round. Although the official clouse time is 4:30 pm, rangers start cleaning from
the top tier around 3 pm and asks visitors to leave as they slowly move down
tier by tier. The lower tiers could be open up until 5 pm, depends on how
quick/slow the daily cleaning goes. The park is generally very busy during the
week-ends and public holidays. During the annual Songkran Festival 13-15
April, the waterfall tiers turns into a celebration place with water fights. It is not
recommended to cary non-waterproof electronic equipments like sensitive
cameras or mobile phones during the festivities.

There are restaurants, various facilities, bungalows and a campsite next to the
HQ. Bungalows are for 2-50 persons and the price varies from 800 THB to 4000
THB. The entrance fee is 300 THB for foreigners (children 200 THB), 100 THB
for locals (children 50 THB), 20 THB for a motorbike and 30 THB for other
vehicles. The park is easily accessible by public busses from Kanchanaburi, see
our get there section for more info. It is possible to rent bicycles at visitor center
area for 20 THB/day. Tents can be rent from 150 Baht a day for 2 people and
250 a day for 3 people, sleeping bag for 25 Baht, pillow for 10 Baht and
sleeping mat for 20 Baht.

Bear in mind that food is strictly forbidden beyond the 2nd tier. Visitors must
pay a 20 THB fee per bottle of any drinks which can be refunded when the
bottles are returned.

Attractions of Erawan

National Park Office - HQShow on map

Located on the northeast side of the national park. There are many shops,
restaurants and various facilities as well as a big car park and an area where
public transportation vehicles stop by. The campsite area and bungalows are just
few hundred meters away. Bungalows can be rent from the visitor center next to
headquarter from 800 THB for 2 persons, 1200 THB for 4 persons and some
bigger "bungalows" up to 50 persons with prices up to 4000 THB.
Erawan WaterfallShow on map
Erawan Waterfall is located in the east side of the park in a convinient walk
distance from HQ. Named after three-headed white elephant in Hindu
mythology, Erawan Waterfall flowing with emerald water is the major attraction
of the national park. It is 7 tiered and spans over 1.5 km, each tier has also
number of smaller falls into ponds full of fishes. A series of trails and
footbridged will lead visitors all way up to 6th tier, last tear is accessible by
scrambling up to few cliffs for those who like a bit more challenge.

Most tears are running into ponds, great for swimming. There are few picnic
spots around the lower tiers, food is strickly forbidden beyond the second tier.

Phartat CaveShow on map

Located 12 km north west from the HQ, the cave consists of both stalactites and
stalagmites withing a limestone hill. It is accessible by a short trail starting from
a nearby carpark.

Ta Duang Cave
Located 30 km from HQ at the south east corner of the national park, 700-800
meters into the forest from Tha Thung Na village. The cave has rock paintings
of trees and human shapes. Evidence of past human habitation, pottery and used
tools may be seen.

Mi Cave
"Mi" means bear in Thai and cave believed to have got it's name because it
thought to be occupied by bears. It has 5 chambers. The cave is located on south
side of the park, accessible through Ban Thap Sila village on the south side of
the park. The cave consists of of stalagmites, stalactites and stones. 7 km of
tracking needed to reach to the cave.

Reua Cave
Reua is a 40-50 meters deep cave situated at the south side of the park, not too
far away from Mi Cave. It doesn't have any stalagmites or stalactites. Several
coffins has been found in this cave. It is approxtimately 1 km walk into the
forest from Ban Thap Sila village.

Wang Bah Dan CaveShow on map

Located 54 km from HQ in the south side of the national park, accessible from
Chaiyaphruek Village couple of kilometers into the forest. It is a limestone cave
with a narrow opening. Chambers contains different stalactite and stalagmite
formations. There is a permanent waterstream running through last chamber.

Trails
There are several trails into the forest from the HQ area, of those;

Khao Hin Lan Pee Nature Trail, approximately 5 km and takes 2-3 hours to
walk. It ends at 5th tier of Erawan Falls.

Mong Lay Dry Evergreen Forest Natural Trail among waterfall, takes less than
an hour to walk.

Festival

River Kwai Bridge Week

When: 28 November 2012 - 9 December 2012
Where: The Bridge of the River Kwai, Amphoe Mueang

Each year, late November and/or early December, the world famous bridge
becomes the focal point of celebrations. Highlights include exhibitions and
historical and archaeological displays; a carnival featuring sideshows,
roundabouts, folk entertainment, and cultural performances; rides on trains
hauled by World War II vintage steam locomotives; and a nightly light and
sound presentation re-enacting the bridge's Second World War history, including
an Allied bombing raid.
Restaurant

Souvenirs
Bo Ploi Jewellery Handicraft Centre
If your eyes glow and heart pounds with every time you see sparkling little
gemstones, a trip to Bo Ploi is a must. This small village is home to one of
Thailands most active industrial gemstone mining industries, and Bo Ploi
Jewellery Handicraft Centre is where you can watch how these precious and
semi-precious stones, particularly blue sapphire, onyx and ruby, are honed and
fashioned into dazzling rings, brooches and penchants. Bring more cash than
necessary, as you will need it.
Location: Bo Ploi District, about 48km north of Kanchanaburi City
How to get there: Non air-conditioned buses leave Kanchanaburi Bus Terminal
every 20 minutes (06:00-18:30). The journey takes about one hour.