Kanchanaburi, Thailand

After a day back in Bangkok, we caught a bus to Kanchanaburi, only a couple of hours away. Kanchanaburi is a town visited by tourists mostly due to it being home to the bridge over the river Kwai, a railway bridge built by Allied prisoners of war during world war 2 as part of the Burmese railway line that the Japanese built to move supplies by land to Burma. Can you tell that we went on a trip to learn all about it?!

The day trip we did included a visits to a local waterfall, to a museum at Hellfire Pass, a section of the railway where many POWs died, lunch at a local Thai restaurant, a hot spring, a ride on the Death Railway (as it is otherwise known) and finally a stop at the bridge itself. It was a great day. Our tour guide was really good and we got talking to a couple from Brisbane. It turned out the man was originally from Fife and his first question to us - Celtic or Rangers?! Luckily, he was also a Tim! The reason they had came was that their son, who is in the Australian army, had helped build a new walkway from the museum down to the railway line. They got to see his work and also met a Thai lady who works in the museum that had got to know their son during his time there.

Other than the tour, we didn't do much in Kanchanaburi (there wasn't much else to do!) After three days, we caught a bus back to the airport at Bangkok and flew to Chiang Mai.

The rest of our photos are here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/colinlennon/sets/72157607450838031/