Bridge Over the River Kwai

This is it - the Bridge Over the River Kwai. Japanese military forced 60,000 POWs and 200,000 Thais and Chinese to build a railroad from northern Malaysia to Burma to get supplies to Japan. About half of the POWs, Thais and Chinese died in the process, working under extreme conditions. They were starved, beaten and put through horrible torture. Learning about the bridge and Hellfire Pass was a very sobering experience. It was a tragic reminder of the human toll of war.

Day Four: Floating Market and Bridge over the River Kwai

November 14th 2005
Today we traveled from Bangkok to the Kanchanaburi province, where the Bridge over the River Kwai is located. We stopped by the village of Samutsongkram, where the Siamese Twins were born in 1811. This is the kind of information you get from a guided tour that you would never discover on your own. Our tour guide, Ole, is a wonderful host - full of historical information and great anecdotes about T ... 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

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