KANCHANABURI

BRIDGE OVER RIVER KWAI (My understanding) Whilst everybody was busy trying to stop Hitler erase everyone without blue eyes and blonde hair, his allies, The Japs were busy reaking havoc on Asia. During the WWII the Japanese successively seized many countries and captured hundreds of thousands Prisoners Of War. They used some of these POW's as laborers to construct a railway line from Bangkok to Burma. The men were forced to work in very harsh conditions and a lot died from starvation, exhaustion and dehydration (90 000 Asians, 6318 Brits, 2815 Aussies, 2490 Dutch, 356 Yanks and many more) the line is now called "The Death Railway". Part of this railway is a bridge over the river kwai. Regarding the part of the River Kwai Bridge that was formed by iron, when the Japanese had successively attacked and seized Java, they demolished th eiron of the Java River bridge then shipped it to Thailand and reassembled it into the River Kwai Bridge. The construction involved purely human laborers and the work was done both day and night in rotating shifts throughout its period. It took one year to complete. It's an interesting day trip from Bangkok to see the war museum and the railway. After the depressing war chat you get to go for a ride on the train which the locals still use today as public transport.