After Bangkok we went to Kanchanaburi, which is a little town on the borders of the River Kwai and in the foothills of the mountains. Our guest house was right on the river and was very picturesque (and only about 3 GBP for a room with a hot shower and fan!). This area is famous because of the railway line which was built from Thailand to Burma by the Japanese in WW2. Thousands of allied prisoners of war, as well as about 200,000 Asian volunteers, built the railway under appalling conditions - over 100,000 died and there are lots of mass cemeteries here. Kanchanaburi is particularly famous as it is where the railway “bridge over the river Kwai” was built. We went to two museums around here, including the famous “hellfire pass”, so named because the
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