Bridge on the River Kwai

Bridge on the River Kwai, Hellfire Pass & Sai Yok National Park

September 12th 2003
During the second World War, the Japanese army forced prisoners of war to build a railway between Thailand and Myanmar. The length of this railway was about 415km through very difficult terrain. It is estimated that about 16,000 POWs died while building the railway. The Bridge of River Kwai was bombed several times during the war. Nowadays the bridge is still used by trains. At the Je ... 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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Kurt

Kurt de Gante

Hello everybody, I'm Kurt, nearly 40 years old and living in Belgium. I always wanted to see the world and explore other countries. Until now I've done a few -rather small- journeys. But to my feeling there are still a lot to places to explore ;-) I'm the kind of traveller that has done a different kind of trips: in group, alone, with some friends, with my wife (and kids), multiple day trekking in the mountains, city-trips, cultural trips, lazy vacations, ... For the moment, my kids are too young to take them far abroad. That's why -in 2011- I decided to write down some of my travel-e... full info

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