We took a taxi to the bus station first thing and then a bus to Kanchanaburi. Our hotel is set in what only can be described as paradise and looks out over the river Kwai where the dragon boats keep zipping past.
Photo from the riverbank:
This afternoon we went to the "death railway museum" - for those of you that didn't really learn much history at school (that was definitely me!) the bridge over the river Kwai at Kanchanaburi and an entire railway line up to Burma was ordered to be built by the Japanese in the second world war to get supplies to the Japanese troops. The Japanese boats sailing around were constantly coming under attack by our forces so the railway was seen as a safer and quicker way for the Japanese to get things to the troops.
The railway and bridge were built by many Japanese along with thousands of prisoners of war, a lot of those actually came from the UK. A lot died whilst building the railway and the allied forces sucessfully bombed the bridge at Kanchanaburi slowing down getting vital supplies to the Japanese. The site now is a memorial to all those that died and is a lasting tribute.
Anyways, history lesson over... ;-)
After that we just went to the bridge, took a few photos and then went fir something to eat in a floating restaurant. I'm probably going to get an early night tonight - compensate fit the late one last night and I've got a pretty early start tomorrow - off to see Erawan falls which is about 50miles from here so setting off earlyish - should be good fun!
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