Kanchanaburi, western province bordering Myanmar(Burma), has a famous WWII history. This is where 16,000 Allied Pows and 90,000 Asian laborers died during the construction of the Death Railway. The Bridge of the River Kwai a small part of the death railway is one of the most visited tourist spot in Kanchanaburi.
Bridge over the River Kwai bridge spans the Immortalized by movie of the same name, the real the book and Kwai Yai River, a tributary of the Mae Klong River 3km Kanchanaburi's town center. from