River Kwai Village

... nothing but thousands of candle lanterns.... they thought it looked like hell. As the train approached the bridge over the River Kwai, it stopped then started slowly and we traveled over the original spans, the replacement spans where the Americans ...

... doesn’t appeal to me. But actually, it was a really great time. The retreat was held at a place called "The River Kwai Village Resort." Now for any of you history buffs or movie buffs, you may recognize that title from a movie called “The ...

... and wide-brimmed straw hats. From there we visited a pottery-village and the Khao Bin caves with holy water. After a spectecular trip over River Kwai in a longtail boat we arrived in the floating hote l where we will stay the night. In the evening we had ...

... , or other needed services, and they will be your nice bridge to the surrounding community. PS – Some Super Recipes from the River Kwai Farm             Our cook was a genius who had worked for ...

... actually named something else, the author of the book had never been there and assumed that because the railway ran alongside the actual River Kwai it crossed it, not so.  The Thai's had the obvious solution to this and renamed the rivers so as not ...

We just finished our tour to Katchanburi and the River Kwai.  It was absolutely amazing - we felt like we were in paradise!  We were picked up from our hotel in Bangkok at 6am and drove out to Katchanburi, where we visited the WWII Cemetary and ...

... Peem. Plan (1) visit The Buffalo Village in the Suphanburi province (Bird Flu country-YIKES!); (2) visit the famous Bridge over River Kwai in the Kanchanaburi province; and (3) head to Siem Riep, Cambodia overland from Thailand via Aranya Prathet-Poipet, ...

... we saw for about 20 minutes as we headed up river. Finally we arrived at our destination, our “oasis” on the river Kwai.  I say oasis because our hotel, of floatel as it was called, was a series of rafts tied together and sitting off ...

... we both Shelley and I look at each other and feel lucky with our 5* hotels. From here we then visited The Bridge over the River Kwai.  This famous bridge spans the Kwai Yai River. It was brought from Java by the Japanese Army and assembled at ...

... into the river......nice!  Later, we took a ride on the famous Death Railway and visited the Bridge on the River Kwai.  During the japanese occupation in the second world war 16000 prisoners of war (mainly british and australian) died building ...

... stuff done. Wednesday 16/09/09 We went a tour to Erawan Waterfall today and also took in the Death Railway and Bridge over the River Kwai.  The waterfall was like paradise. 7 tiers in which yo could swim with the fishes in 4 of.  3 troupers - ...

... for about 1hour on the death railway taking in the sights on the way. Finally I actually set foot on the bridge over the river kwai (what remains today) which was a really moving to have stood where many men had died. A really exhausting day!! Only a ...

... from exhaustion, malnutrition, and disease. Most people only know about this event through the Hollywood movie, "The Bridge Over the River Kwai". ALthough I had never seen the movie, I knew this was a place I wanted to visit. THE TOUR: After ...

... day and we had to prepare ourselves after lunch to depart B'kok by minibus and head for Kanchanaburi, to see the Bridge over the river Kwai. At Kanchanaburi we had time to walk over the bridge and it made me feel sad to know that each sleeper of the ...

Everyone knows the film and the tune, now we are actually going there !  WOW ! Now on the way to river Kwai on a bus. Picture attached of the group, our tour leader ( first row on the right) with the rest of us behind (if you enlarge the picture ...

The River Kwai trip was just amazing. I am so pleased we went. Staying on the rafts were so cool, although there was no electricity and cold water showers!! The elephant ride was really funny and it was really interesting seeing the village where all the ...

Arrived at River Kwai, saw festival, went to Erawan Fall. Went on two day jungle hike to Karen ...

... by the Bridge", we inadvertently found Elvis.  He is happy and looking well rested.  The tribal village nears the Burmese boarder.  The villagers fled Burma to find refuge in these mountains.  There were a ...

War Museum, Cemetery, Bridge, Hell Fire Pass, trekking, Mon Village, Dances & Railway ...