Kanchanburi, Thailand
Friday (Oct 7th) we were collected from our Hotel in Bangkok about 6.30am, we then drove about 3 hours to Kanchanaburi where our first stop was the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery (known locally as the Don-Rak War Cemetery) It is the main Prisoner of War cemetery associated with victims of the Burma Railway. It is maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. There are 6,982 former POWs buried there, mostly Australian, British and Dutch.
We then jumped back o...