A Day Spent in Kanchanaburi
December 28th 2011 On our second day in Bangkok, we got up early and took a two hour drive to Kanchanaburi. This is the location of the famous Bridge over the River Kwae that was built by the Japanese during WWII. They transported 60,000 POWs to build the bridge, mostly from Singapore. The POWs were mostly Australians, British and Dutch but there were other nationalities including Americans.
We first vis
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