War Museum Kanchanaburi

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I booked a full day out which had a few stops at various tourist attractions, but I was really looking forward to visiting the Tiger Temple. The trip was booked and paid for the day before, I was going with 4 other people, and the minibus was going to come for us at 6.30 in the morning.

I'm not a big fan of stupid times like 6.30am …

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 …

So a couple of days in Kanchanburi was just what the doctor ordered... well not the doctor but a Highly Specialised Clinical Neuro something i.e. my wee sis Ciara. Some by the Kwai chilling, good food and post India acclimatisation. Staying at Baan Ma Feung, just off the backpacker drag was probably a good thing too, another awesome little booking. …

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 …

Traveled to Kanchanaburi by bus it was like a theme park ride. First off all stuck in traffic in Bangkok getting out to the Southern bus terminal and then had difficulty finding out where to buy a ticket!!!! They have different ticket booths for every destination. Bus packed full we were sat squeezed next to two thai ladies - ended up with numb bum …

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Since flight prices were extremely high, my trip to Singapore was postponed so, my friend Sarah and I decided to go on a little trip to Kanchanaburi just a couple of hours away from Bangkok. It actually turned out to be quite the traveling experience since this was the first time we weren't traveling in a group. Once you're in …

Førr længe sia (føles det som) prøvde vi å se filme " Bridge over the river kwai" (Broen over Kwai er en prisbelønt britisk drama- og krigsfilm regissert av David Lean i 1957 etter en roman av Pierre Boulle. hilsn wikipedia). Men den va egenlti litt døll så vi kom oss aldri ijænnom den ... Men hær e vi ... I Kanchanaburi ... ætter en førsinka …

... , but if anyone has any more information, that would be good to get our hands on. Anyway the east, we visited two war museums on a hired ped, one that was particularly informative about what happened here in Kanchanaburi. We also somberly visited the ...

... and enjoy cooling down. We spent about 5 hours 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 ...

... conscripted local labourers (ie. Burmese, Thais, Malays, etc) Walk over the bridge, visit the war cemetery and the JEATH War Museum and have some lunch (maybe on a floating restaurant). Go to a hotel in afternoon for swim and relax. Dinner at hotel ...

... of big, fat, wonderful donuts to snack on before heading over to the JEATH (Japan, English, America and Australia, Thai and Holland) War Museum. It was started by a monk in 1977 and is run by the temple next door. The collection of the museum is ...

... kinda like that... (without me turning into a skeleton on the other side). Along the way we saw the Kanchanaburi War Cemetary, the JEATH war museum, and the infamous Bridge Over the River Kwai. I was able to trudge across it on foot and was ...

... - the guide did his best to get the lady to hospital in time but to no avail. So, not being in the mood for any more war museums we upped and "headed east" to the old capital Ayattuya.We saw only five of the scores of wats(temples) available but are ...

... barely fit for roads, let alone mountains. But they were cheap. First we went to the Jeath war museum, Jeath standing for Japan, England, Australia, America, Thailand, Holland if you're interested. Though surely that should make it JEAATH museum? Ah ...

... felt like I am in Russia as the park swarmed with Russian tourists, all I could hear was Russian. Kanchanaburi features also 3 war museums, 2 war cemeteries, a national museum, a historical park, hot springs, some worth seeing Thai and Chinese temples ...

... the wrong direction for some km because they want to switch directions... At the River Kwai we went to see the 2nd World War Museum and the bridge the Japanese let their thai war-prisoners built... Later that evening we had dinner on a floating ...

... was quite hard to follow but seemed pretty funny to everyone else! Arrived in Kanchan, and set off for the "Jeath War Museum".  "Jeath" is an acronym for all of the countries involved at Kanchan...Japan, England, Australia/America, Thailand, and ...