Kanchanaburi Thailand-Burma Railway Centre A fantastic museum in Kanchanaburi that explains why the railway was built during WWII for aiding the Japanese troops in transporting supplies and ammunition safely overland to Burma. The museum certainly illustrated quite graphically the suffering and torture that was endured by those POW having to contruct the railway through such mountainous terrain. Kanchanaburi War Cemetary Across the road from the railway centre is the cemetary where hundreds of British, Dutch and Australians are buried following WWII. Hellfire Pass Walked through Hellfire Pass - large cutting through the mountain (approx. 25 metres high) where the POW constructed the railway day and night until it was completed. Called "hellfire" because it was hell for the POW having to work under such terrible conditions with inadequate rest, food and disease. The fire co
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