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Bridge over River Kwai.
A riverside resort on the fabled River Kwai in Kanchanaburi located in the middle of the jungle surrounded by mountains with a view of the well know original death railway at Tham Krasair. Here you also find the famous bridge. It is about 4km north from downtown Kanchanaburi, crossing the Kwai Yai river. It was brought from Java by the Japanese Army and was assembled at the River Kwai by the prisoners. Bombed several times in 1945, it was rebuilt after the war. The curved spans of the bridge are the original sections. An estimated 16,000 war prisoners and 49,000 forcibly recruited labourers died during the construction of the bridge and the Death Railway that leads to Burma. Next to the bridge you find Jeath War Museum It is an open-air bamboo hut museum and has been built as a copy of an original and established to collect various items connected with the construction of the Death Railway by prisoners of war during the Second World War, 1942-1943.
Close by you also find Kanchanaburi War Cemetery. This cemetery contains the remains of 6,982 war prisoners who lost their lives during the captivity by the Japanese Army that forced them to build the Bridge over the River Kwai and the Death Railway.
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