Kanchanaburi River Kwai Bridge was started to be built on the 16th of September 1942, the Japanese Engineers estimated it would take 5 years to build the bridge and the connecting railway to supply there troops in Burma going through the 3 Pagodas Pass, it was completed in 16 months, this was due mainly to the 61,000 prisoners of war of which about 16,000 of them died and around 200,000 Asian forced helpers, out of this lot just over 49,000 died due to disease etc, 21 months after it had been finished we bombed the fok out of it and crippled it.
The bridge was actually shipped over from Java to be assembled here.
They still have some of the old trains there and it has a load of restaurants and souvenier stalls to buy trinkets.
Also there are a few guest houses around this area starting from the 150baht per night range and raft restaurants and accomodation.
Kanchanaburi