| Monday, January 09, 2006 |
| Bridge Over the River Kwai |
 We stopped at the bridge over the River Kwai in Kanchanaburi, where the "Death Railway" crosses the water. Around 60,000 Allied POWs and 200,000 conscripted Asian laborers were forced to build the Thailand-Burma Railway during WWII, beginning in June 1942. In 15 months, 16,000 of the POWs and 100,000 of the Asian workers had died from overwork, disease, accidents, or starvation at the hands of the Japanese army. The bridge was heavily damaged by Allied bombing near the end of the war, but was subsequently repaired. Sections of the railway were destroyed by the British after 1945 to block movement of Karen separatists, and longer stretches were further destroyed when the railway returned to Thai control. We were able to walk all the way across the bridge, but there was also a tourist train that would periodically cross the river.
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