Kanchanaburi is about 130 kms West of Bangkok. By train it takes about three hours to get there. I like Kanchanaburi and sometimes go there for a long weekend.
The old train
which was used on this railway after the last war. Everyone
calls this place "Bridge on the River Kwai" but
really everyone in Thailand knows it as "Kwae River"
(Kwae rhymes with Square).
Lots of people
come here just to walk on this "River Kwai Bridge"
and go back. At first, for me, I think it's just a normal
bridge but later when I knew the background story, I understood
straight away why they came here for. Most of the tourists
here are Japanese and European.
It is possible
to catch a train that goes across this bridge and beyond.
Some of the scenary alongside the river is very beautiful.
This is one
of two War Cemeteries of 8,732 allied Prisoners. We walked
around and looked at their names, age etc. Some of them
are very young like that one in the right picture, he
was just 18 years old.
JEATH War Museum,
inside the museum there are pictures from the war. This
museum was built like a prisoners' hut and where the pictures
are, that's where prisoners slept.
These are the
bombs that dropped on the bridge and the picture on the
right shows the bridge after the bombs were dropped on it.
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