Bridge over the River Kwai

Kayaking... and ladies of the night, another day in thailand

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November 1st 2008
So our adventure continues. We spent Halloween in Karanchanaburi. It is on the western border of Thailand. It is on the Thai Burma border. We did take a break from massages and beer drinking to get cultured. this is the town that was used by the Japanese in WWII to keep about 100,000 POW in horrible conditions to help build a railway between the mountains that separate Thailand and Burma. We went ... read more

Asia » Thailand

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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