Hellfire Pass

I Heart WWII POWs

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August 19th 2007
Going to Kanchanaburi was quite an experience. Every stop seemed to make me appreciate more and more what it means to be an Australian. It's not because any of my relatives fought and died, because to my knowledge, they didn't. It was just the fact that these people were forced to endure starvation, hard labour, jungle ulcers and other unimaginable pains just because they had chosen to fight for t ... read more

Asia » Thailand » Western Thailand » Kanchanaburi

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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