Day Twenty
Last night we received a message from the tour guide that our pickup would be at 06:10 the next morning. The destination: Bridge on the River Kwai. It took a 2.5 hour drive to the river where we took a boat to the bridge.
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The bridge was constructed as part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma_Railway">Birma Railway</a> during the second world war.
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There were two bridges over the river, this one and a wooden temporary bridge (Famous from the movie, that by the way, does not represent acutal facts about this railway).
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The sign below was placed after a Japanese man was dragged along with the train just a week ago.
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After half an hour the train to Burma arrived.
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The train took us though jungle and farmlands.
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This wooden bridge was built as part of the original railway in the second world war and still standing.
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After a few hours in the train we reached or destination and after lunch drove 3 hours back to Bangkok.
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