Yesterday I took a two day trip to Kanachaburi. Setting off early, our group made up of one swiss, two brits, four dutch and two italians. First stop was Kanachaburi WW2 Memorial Graves that listed all the foreign service men that died in Siam in WW2. From there it was a short trip to Kanachaburi WW2 museum that detailed the Japanese invasion and the use of thousands of prisoners of war to build the Death Railway over the River Kwai bridge. After we took a ride on the Death Railway itself which runs between the River Kwai and the cliffs themselves that still hide the caves where the prisoners of war were kept. In the afternoon, we went to the Tiger temple where monks are carrying out a conservation project that involves breeding tigers. They are
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