Hellfire Pass Museum 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 …

Nuestro viaje a la historia: yupi!!!!...nos habían dicho que los buses a Kanchanaburi salían a eso de las 9:30 en la mañana así que nos levantamos y partimos al terminal… al llegar allí, resultó que no quedaban pasajes para esa hora así que a esperar hasta las 12:30… hora en que salía el próximo bus…. Como podrán suponer la espera …

Leaving Vietnam was thankfully a very painless activity, my Hostel in Hanoi ran a taxi service to the airport and bar a bit of a wait at the immigration desk it was a smooth process. Only forgetting to put my swiss army knife in my checked luggage put a bit of a dampener on things, something else I lost to Vietnam!

Arriving in Bangkok was …

As we were waiting for our tour operator to pick us up outside the hotel I started to feel a little nauseous. A second later I had to make a mad dash to the lobby toilet where I proceeded to throw up. Since I hadn't drank much alcohol the night before I put it down to my stomach readjusting to Koh San Road food preparation standards which are …

Loving being in Bangkok again. Great day yesterday - chilled late breakfast, Jim Thompson etc finished off by best dinner. Up early to leave at 6 with packed breakfast. Went to Kanchanaburi and caught train along part of the Burma-Thailand Railway -same route built by Australians British and Dutch in 1942-43. Even more incredible the second time. …

It was two bus journeys to get from Koh Samet to Kanchanaburi. The first leg from koh Samet back to Bangkok and then onto Kanchanaburi. We left Koh samet at 10am and arrived at 19:30pm a long journey plus I was still struggling to recover from illness it wasn't much fun.

The following day was spent recuperating with the trophy of finally …

Bec and I booked a trip with a company called Good Times travel, hoping that the trip would do exactly what it said on the tin and provide us with 'good' 'times.' When Noi, the Thai guide arrived at the guesthouse to pick us up he informed us that we were the only people on this particular trip, so it was just the three of us in his pick-up. I had …

http://youtu.be/8Vltcz-NxVc utsikt fra balkongen vårres :) Prøvde å få me flaggermusan på sluttn mend funka heller dåli ;)

På dagstur programmet sto:
Erawan nasjonal park dær hoved attraksjon va erawan vannfallan
Så lunsj
Så Hellfire museum og Kon yu cutting
Gamle tre brua
Kra sae cave
Togtur på death railway

... had to head back to town after visiting the museum as we didn't trust the car to make it any further up hill. The Hellfire Pass Museum was built by the Australian Government to commemorate the prisoners of war who served and died at the hands of the ...

... up and down through the hills along a large lake. Hellfire Pass On the way to Sangkhlaburi we stopped at the Hellfire Pass Museum. Back to the history lesson on the railroad. Japanese engineers estimated it would take 5 years to complete the ...

... make a great place to bike around.        Next day i got on a bus to see the Hellfire pass museum, as i figured it wasn't worth motorbiking the 80km there and back myself. Hellfire pass is a section of the Death railway ...

... shields. About Hellfire Pass: A much more digestible exhibit was waiting for us at the Hellfire Pass museum, which is a joint venture between Australia and Thailand, but funded mostly by Australia. It is located beside 'Hellfire Pass', a place ...

... spicy red curry paste sauce! Day 3 we booked ourselves on a day tour which included visiting the Erawan Water falls and Hellfire Pass. The Hellfire Pass museum was by far the best museum i've visited since i've been away. The museum was completed by an ...

... Jones and the Temple of Doom! We all made it across in one piece though. That afternoon we were taken to the Hellfire Pass Museum. It was a really interesting but utterly depressing. One of the videos had me welling up and I could hear crying from the ...

... the bus so I bought a bag of lovely pink, sweet milky drink (most drinks are sold in plastic bags here). The Hellfire Pass museum is operated by the Australian government and is a very plush, modern museum telling the story of the Thai-Burma railway ...

... started off at a water fall, which reminded me of Yellowstone with the formation of the falls. Then we stopped the HellFire Pass museum, which centers on a different section of the Death Railway and it paints a much better picture of how horrible life ...

... started off at a water fall, which reminded me of Yellowstone with the formation of the falls. Then we stopped the HellFire Pass museum, which shows a different section of the Death Railway and it paints a much better picture of how horrible life was ...

Kanchenburi was our trip out of Bangkok this weekend. We visited the Australian-run Hellfire Pass museum which was a fantastic insight into the horrible building of the railway during WWII.  We walked along the pass that had been dug by the ...