Day Five: Hellfire Pass
November 15th 2005 Today we took a longtail boatride along the River Kwai and saw lots of beautiful birds, animals and plants. We took a pick-up truck to Hellfire Pass, which was one of the areas cleared by POWs for the railroad during WWII. It was called Hellfire Pass because of the ghostly shadows cast by the men while they worked through the night by firelight.
We took a train ride along the original route, th
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