The Bridge over the River Kwai - Ride Itik version

I am back again... in writing. What language to use? English? Malay? Thai? huhu... mixed la noooh

I was ask to cover the trip from Hua Hin to River Kwai and return while my other riding partner will cover the remaining.

The trip is 650 km to and return. Still feeling exhausted from yesterday 800 km ride

Nov 28 morning... all of us gather in front of U-Yen Hotel, checking our motor. The hoo-haa started. Yus decided not to follow as he wanted to enjoy the scenery and visiting places in Hua Hin. We have it in video you know. The rest, hoo-haa lets roll the tires

We started with a good-breakfast at the 7E. Nasi goreng, wantan udang, roti, you name it la. Whatever seems to be HALAL all goes in. Hafiz decided the spaghetti. Not for me. Too orang putih.

Hafiz tak kalih dah

There suppose to be 8 of us BUT only 7 at the 7E. Checking2... I was informed Nan is leaving early as he plans to come back early to accompany Yus. So we are travelling in two groups. Once is a one man group while the other is a 7-man group

At around 8.30am - Thailand time, we depart. From Hua Hin to Cha Am and ahead to Petchaburi following route 4 - 323 up to the Bridge. That is the plan.

[10.10am] Somewhere near Petchaburi two pick up take a u-turn. Kusssss semangat. Main belasah je. Mir almost hit one of the pick up. We have to stop. Stop for a while - almost an hour. Ambil nyawa balik. We thought only Malaysian drivers are reckless... seems that the Thais also catching up fast.

5 iteks... apa la yang disembangkan tu

After Mir get back his life (hahaha), we continue to Petchaburi and then Ratchaburi before we stop again. Hafiz could not open his eyes anymore. Too sleepy. Macam2 kan. While waiting for Hafiz having his sweet dream Mir and Nasec busy attending to their bike

[11.30am] Nasec with the charging problem while Mir is preparing his ACE stickers at a road side

At this time, Nan pm me wondering if anything wrong with us. I believe he might be surprised when I told him we are waiting for Hafiz taking his nap. Hahaha. Wonderful trip kan... we can even had someone sleeping.

As Hafiz gaining his strength of riding... we gears up and continue. Aaaahhhh again stop. Stop for a photo. Not one BUT each and everyone had them

[12.15pm] The super duper fresh Hafiz

From the signboard Hafiz is posing... we ride straight. No turn kiri or kanan. Just straight. We were so eager as Nan is already at the site. Eager to be in a big group again.

Unfortunately, at the war cemetery, we stop again as we could not locate any signboard to River Kwai. Ask around and we were told "Sir you go straight no turn turn OK". Whom do you think we ask for a direction?

[01.30pm] Mel came to inform us - note awek in pink behind

There we received a news from Mel, Nan left to Hua Hin. Aiyaaa. Cannot wait even for 10 more minutes. OK lah what to do maa. We cannot force anyone to wait. Furthermore he is not traveling with us.

About 10 mins from there we arrive to the place where we are heading too. So emotional. Another problem... where is the bridge??? We took 10 mins to find the bridge and a good parking. Ample parking for 7 of us in a row. We note only one bikes from Malaysia. The Versys in yellow. Hope to notice the rider for a photo... seems he is nowhere to find in the flock of human beings

[01.50pm] We reached where we wanted to go. Nasec made a video on our trip here

From left - Irwan, Nasec, Hafiz, CO and Pijan in the middle of the bridge

Same location from left Irwan, Hafiz, Nasec, CO and Pijan

Abglong on the left and Mel on the right

We sing "Burung Kakak Tua" with him on the bridge. Unfortunately no one taking our photo huhuhu

Letih juga la wandering around for about 1 hour, we target the muslim stall selling HALAL food. Hungry man now. Sedap? no la... just nice for makan2 kasi perut kenyang

[02.45pm] makan time

At about 4pm we left River Kwai heading back to Ratchaburi. Abglong was leading the group and we chose a wrong time to return to Hua Hin. At about 5 near Ratchaburi the traffic is very heavy and we missed one junction without realizing it. There we are heading We passed Nakhon Pathom. By the time we realized, we were about 50km to Bangkok.

Again, google-map come in handy. It guided us to Samut Sakhon - Samut Songkhram and then to Petchaburi. By the time we reach hotel it is already passed 10pm. After keeping our helmets, jackets and other protective gears, we headed down and found that Yus and Nan are not at the hotel.

We went to Hua Hin bike week by asking for direction around there.... someone else will continue

Abglong dan Mel tak der foto

* I have corrected the timing based on time photos are taken. As there were few cameras in action time need to be checking and consulted for correction
* More river kwai story to be published as and when I received more photos