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No you are right. I didn't think that's what you meant. I thought perhaps you had overlooked something. I realize now that what I said sounded like a rebuke and in fact hte inference was slightly insulting. Apologies.
As I said, you were right. I think I know you better than that and while we might not like everything about each other, on issues such as this-I think we know where we both stand. (On the side of truth, justice and...! oh never mind - you know what I mean.)
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Posted on: 8:09 am on Sep. 26, 2002
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Try the River Kwae Resotel - a lovely place to have a break along the river for a few days. Highly reccommended.
(no i dont work there - took my TG there and had a great romantic time away from the tourist traps)
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Posted on: 8:08 pm on Sep. 30, 2002
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chateaujade
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And remember, that's pronounced like quack without the ck. NOT kway. If you say River Kway, people will either laugh at you, or kick your teeth down your throat. Or maybe just give you a stern talking to. The word means COCK. It isn't the River Cock.
Kwai, pronounced like kwhy? is socially acceptable but wrong, it isn't the Buffalo River.
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Posted on: 8:15 pm on Sep. 30, 2002
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johnnyc
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i remember going to kanchanaburee when i was young and rode on the death railway in the morning and saw the lightshows by the bridge at night...like a history lesson culminating in a re-enactment of the bombing. there were siren and bomb sounds with fireworks and whatnot. pretty neat. not sure if they still do that?
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Posted on: 10:05 am on Oct. 1, 2002
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Gus
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I went on a full day trip in late February, cost about 1250 baht, excellent value.
Air Con mini bus picks you up from hotel about 0630 and takes you tocentral pick up point where you transfer to air con bus for 2+ hr trip with 1 stop.
We then went to cemetry,museum and long boat trip up the river to the bridge, for about 1 hour stay near bridge. Then a fantastic train takes you for 1+ hour ride, the train is wooden seats but the atmosphere is great.
The bus then met the train and took us for lunch (inc in ticket), after lunch 3hour trip back to Bangers. I thoroughly enjoyed the trip but it is tiring and you definitely need to have a Good Soapy when you return!
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Posted on: 11:06 am on June 7, 2003
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Winkelried
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Forget the one day trip.Forget the bridge.
Kan is great but you need at least few days to discover it. I was there in november last year ( had to do some research about the japanese gold treasure ). And yes, they still do the River Kwai Lights and Sounds Show
A special recommendation is to visit the Hellfire Pass Memorial (Konyu Cutting) built by the Australian-Thai Chamber of Commerce
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Posted on: 1:53 pm on June 13, 2003
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Montydog
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I did the trip in March felt a little rushed , not enough time at the cemertery or museum. Just wanted to get us on the train ride to lunch and a boat trip.The train ride was cool I sat between coaches having a cig talking to a Thai man and wife couple.
Want to do it again when I go in september the JEATH museum is incredible, small but full of emotion.( My GF had to take me out twice because of my crying.)
Also the way the graves are looked after is a CREDIT TO THE PEOPLE OF THAILAND.
To qualify the above .I'm an ex airborne soldier with tours of NI the Falklands and the Gulf (1) under my belt.
My granfather dissapeared between singapore and Thailand in WW2.
As Vinnie Jones would say "It's been emotional"
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Posted on: 8:19 am on June 15, 2003
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kaisersoldaten
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Comrades
I'm mostly with CJ. I am a military historian and I hated the place as a war monument. The statues of Hitler, Churchill, and Einstein were pathetic.
If the Thai govt wanted to do something really worthwhile, they would treat the site with same reverence as the Poles do to Auschwitz, the Germans at Dachau, the Cambodians at Tool Kuk, and the Georgians at Andersoville. Kach was not the site of a battle, the the exermination of several hundred thousand civillians, with a few thousand soldiers. Last yeat, the History Channel did a good show on it and had the vets speaking out agains the silly movie and Mr. Ape. Listening to the vets experiences brought me to tears. And they were stronger than the civillians!!!!!
Visit Kach for the natural beauty, not the phoney bridge. I also saw the sound and light show and was quite disgusted at its tackiness and lack of reverance.
However, they do have some finely restored Jap locomotives on display. Being a railfan, I did enjoy that. The Allied Cemetery is nice, but not well noticed by the Thais.
Remember the Words of this Military Historian
If you want to see battlefields and war museums, go to USA, Western Europe(I'm not sure what the East is like, but Russia has some great ones), or Israel (4000 years of battlefields by the way) not Thailand.
So, if you want a good battlefield think Gettysburg, Antietam, Chickamagua, Yorktown, Lake Traisamaine, Culloden, Boyne, Hadrians Wall, Aginscourt, Arhem, Watterloo, Sedan, Verdun, Argonne, Bastogne, Omaha, Iwo, Golan, Latrun, Ein Mordachai.
I guess I made my point.
Bruce
If you want great P4P, to to Thailand, not America, Europe, or Israel.
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Posted on: 3:31 am on June 16, 2003
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UK Punter
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The River Kwai trip was to a prisoner of war camp not a battle field. The prisoners were put into forced labour to build a railway, you will have seen the cuttings they made through rock with just hand tools. The phoney bridge you mentioned was in fact built using timber trestles across the river and this is what was blown up in the Alec Guinnes film 'Bridge on the River Kwai'
The cemetery is looked after by the War Graves Commision as they are elsewhere in the world using local labour to tend the grounds. I have visited the ones in Suez, Cairo and El Alimain where I also visited the Italian and German cemetery's and felt deeple moved in all of them. The River Kwai is a living museum where you feel the heat and see the conditions these poor souls worked, lived and died in, my trip there is one I will always remember.
UKP: Owner of A Dunkirk Little Ship that helped save British and French troops from the beaches of Dunkirk. Construction Superintendent building tunnels, cuttings and bridges in railway construction.
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Posted on: 11:55 am on June 19, 2003
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