The Bridge

Bridge of the River Kwai

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June 3rd 2007
Well the rain stopped when I woke up and blue skies and searing heat greeted me. After breakfast I met up with a Parsian guy and we took a "stroll" to the Jeath museum for the ex POWS at Kwai. No sign posts and not many English speaking people made this harder than expected but the Thais were friendly and gave us free fruit along the way and eventually a nice old man gave us a lift on his motorbi ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more