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Just returned from a trip to SE Asia.
While in Thailand a chance meeting with a travel agent whom we went to hire bikes from showed posters of the Death Railway and the Bridge on the River Kwai. I couldnt stop myself and took a day off to visit the place whose events were cronicled in an Academy award winning move by David lean.
Am sharing pictures of this place . Even after 69 years one feels a sense of awe and respect for the over 14000 POWS and over 80000 civilians who lost their lives in the construction of this railway.
The movie was filmed in Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka) .
Shall share more pics in a while.
The curved spans are the original spans used while constructing the bridge.
The two different spans are those used to replace those bombed during the war.
While in Thailand a chance meeting with a travel agent whom we went to hire bikes from showed posters of the Death Railway and the Bridge on the River Kwai. I couldnt stop myself and took a day off to visit the place whose events were cronicled in an Academy award winning move by David lean.
Am sharing pictures of this place . Even after 69 years one feels a sense of awe and respect for the over 14000 POWS and over 80000 civilians who lost their lives in the construction of this railway.
The movie was filmed in Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka) .
Shall share more pics in a while.
The curved spans are the original spans used while constructing the bridge.
The two different spans are those used to replace those bombed during the war.
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. Have you visited Tiger Temple at Kanchanburi?
