Bridge Over the River Kwai (Death Bridge) Kanchanaburi

This morning after breakfast we walked to the train station to buy a ticket to go to Nam
Tok station which is at the end of the railway line- after the Japanese surrendered the Thai government took over the railway line and decided to only maintain it as far as Nam Tok even though the line was connected to Burma and went through the infamous …

Today we hired bikes and had mapped out our plan for the day. We firstly set of to find the Jeath museum (JEATH stands for Japan, England, America, Australia, Thailand and Holland), this museum contains news clippings from after the war and is about the construction of the railway line from Kanchanaburi to Burma. It includes letters and real …

Travel: bus 81 vanaf de South Bus Terminal Bangkok. 2 uur, 99 baht
Verblijf: Bluestar guesthouse
Bezienswaardigheden: bridge over River Kwai + tiger temple


Wat zal ik blij zijn wanneer de locale lijnbus ons wegvoert uit het drukke Bangkok en veilig afzet in het rustgevende Kanchanaburi. En ja hoor, na exact vijf dagen beginnen …

Cooling off in the hotel pool on the banks of the River Kwai, watching Alec Guinness in the classic "The Bridge On The River Kwai" - "Madness! ... Madness!"

Of course the film is a work of fiction, but as we walked over the bridge and gazed into the river below us it was hard not to imagine a distraught Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson (Alec …

This entry is about a couple of places.

We're fitting them all in this one piece because there isn't that much to say about all of them separately and we also don't want to spend all our time writing.

So here goes;

For starters, Kanchanaburi, a little town around 100 Miles north west of Bangkok. It's famous for three …

Got the metro without a hitch, except feeling like i had an elephant strapped to my back!!
Got off at HuaLampong station to find no taxi would take me across the river to Thonburi station because of the flooding!! getting really suspicious of taxi drivers in this city!!! Got a tuk tuk and once we crossed the bridge I realised just how bad the …

Pour aujourd'hui j'avais prévu une excursion au Tiger Temple, à 200km de Bangkok. J'ai donc pris un bus pendant 2 heures pour arriver à Kanchanaburi. J'ai vite visité un cimetière du Commonwealth oú 6000 prisonniers sont morts pendant la construction du chemin de fer japonais pendant la 2e guerre mondiale. Le cimetière est vraiment bien conservé, …

Island adventure done! It’s time to move on again & this time we are using the overnight train to get from Trang to Kanchanaburi via Nakon Pathom leaving at about 5pm. Finally a train, I wanted to use trains in Indo but it never came about. I love trains & I don’t know why but there is something relaxing about it, & not …

Today we decided to take a day trip to Kanchanaburi province which is home to the Tiger Temple. Tigers are my favourite animal and I have wanted to go here for a while as you are given the chance to get up close and personal with large adult tigers. However there is a bit of controversy surrounding this place as the tigers are really calm and …

So we got up this morning at the ungodly hour of 5:30. We're on holidays so it’s just not right. We dragged ourselves to get ready and then headed down to breakfast for ten minutes before our bus came to pick us up on our tour for the day. The bus came just before 7am and we headed around and picked up other passengers and then swapped mini …

... way back.  He drank all he could handle and we were back on our way to Kanchanaburi for a relaxing afternoon exploring the bridge over the River Kwai, the floating restaurants, the war cemetery and the cute rustic town.  I contemplate ...

... place called Kanchanburi, about 2 hours out of Bangkok. Some of you might know that's it's home to the actual "Bridge Over The River Kwai".  Upon arriving we checked into a funky little guest house called Jolly Frog. It had a wicked chill ...

... , most only managed a couple of words before cracking up laughing or shyly giving up! We then went to Kanchanaburi to see the Bridge over the River Kwai and other World War II things - JEATH museum (not death, they thought that would be too gruesome a ...

... also somberly visited the excellently kept graves of the dead soldiers and a few cave temples. In the afternoon we visted the bridge over the river Kwai itself, which still has an active track. Day three, and we visted another waterfall, again a step ...

... .m. and then got straight onto another bus to Kanchanaburi, about 3 hours away, which is famous for its Bridge over the river Kwai. As is customary with our little squad these days, we got mopeds almost immediately and spent a day ...

... June 2004 Went on my first organised trip today - though organised in the very loosest sense. Kanchanaburi is the site of the famous Bridge Over The River Kwai, where those nasty Japanese lets thousands of Allied POW's die building their railway to ...

... just enjoying the day before heading back to town. That night we checked out the JEATH War Museum and went and saw the famous bridge over the River Kwai. And that was pretty much it for Kan as we needed to get to Chiang Mai quickly, so we left the next ...

... to do it! Thankfuuly, there were a couple of legends on our bus, so they kept us amused! From here we visited the bridge over the river Kwai. It had no safety barrier and holes in it. We should have worn brown pants! After our lunch, we visited ...

... AD. Eat breakfast at or near the floating markets. Continue on to Kanchanaburi town (another 2 hours or so). See the bridge over the River Kwai. In human terms it was the most expensive bridge ever built with 1 person dead for every 4m of track. ...

... like. Even when I got to the general vicinity of civilisation it wasn't a pretty moment. Let's just say my personal 'Bridge over the River Kwai' experience and the memories associated with it will remain just like it was back then.. explosive. The ...