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Jan 6 2 Hours Minibus to Kanchanaburi
Sam's Guesthouse Hut 4 - 7 quid bargain mozzie shack on Kwai
Kanchanaburi is famous for a Bridge situated hereabouts that goes over a River called Kwai........and we are staying in a little hut that is on stilts over the (little bit smelly) river.
The Japanese forced POW's to build the bridge during WW2. When the air-raid sirens went off they would march the POW's onto the bridge in the hope that the allies wouldnt attack/destroy the bridge. This ploy didnt work and hundreds were killed.
Ride on a Death railway? (it'll only take a couple of hours......!)- sold! Five hours (!!) on a rock-hard bone-jarring back-breaking seat later and i'm not so sure. The first (and last as the train was a there and back again deal) five minutes was exciting as we crossed the bridge........then there was a pretty nice view over the river at about an hour and a half in (obviously repeated at about three and a half hours).......then we went past a durian farm about half an hour before the midway point (and again about half an hour into our return) which was ever so slightly gut-wrenchingly smelly................
Sam's Guesthouse Hut 4 - 7 quid bargain mozzie shack on Kwai
Kanchanaburi is famous for a Bridge situated hereabouts that goes over a River called Kwai........and we are staying in a little hut that is on stilts over the (little bit smelly) river.
The Japanese forced POW's to build the bridge during WW2. When the air-raid sirens went off they would march the POW's onto the bridge in the hope that the allies wouldnt attack/destroy the bridge. This ploy didnt work and hundreds were killed.
Ride on a Death railway? (it'll only take a couple of hours......!)- sold! Five hours (!!) on a rock-hard bone-jarring back-breaking seat later and i'm not so sure. The first (and last as the train was a there and back again deal) five minutes was exciting as we crossed the bridge........then there was a pretty nice view over the river at about an hour and a half in (obviously repeated at about three and a half hours).......then we went past a durian farm about half an hour before the midway point (and again about half an hour into our return) which was ever so slightly gut-wrenchingly smelly................
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