As part of a tour of Thailand, We reluctantly visited Kanchanaburi to see the Bridge over the River Kwai. Had mixed feelings about going, didn't think a war grave cemetery should be part of the tourist trail but have to say the war graves sere absolutly imaculate and there was a free to enter museum that told the whole story as it happened and how the POWs were treated. I certainly learnt a lot and when you see the amount of earth they had to move manually literally cutting through mountains it brings it all home to you just what they went through. Didn't agree with actually riding on the "death train" as they call it but I suppose if it teaches the next generation the true story of what happened does the end justify the means?
