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Scenes from the River Kwai, Hellfire Pass and a temple of mirrors 

Click thumbnails for larger image. Photos taken by Jack Dodge on Overseas Adventure Tours Discover Thailand trip in November 2002.    

The permanent bridge over the River Kwai built by the Japanese using cruelly treated prisoners of war still stands.		One of the Japanese train engines from the WWII era	Not far away is a war cemetery honoring some of the prisoners.
Simple stones mark the graves.	The families at a local wedding invited the group, on the way to a tour,  to join in the festivities.	The group visited the somber Hellfire Pass where thousands of Allied prisoners lost their lives during the Japanese occupation.
The trip back was on the Death Railway which skirted the steep hillsides.		Our cabin and a quiet garden on the grounds of the Legacy River Kwai hotel.
The view from lunch on a river barge in Utaithani.	Mirrors cover all the surfaces of the Wat Chantaram in Utaithani, which houses several magnificent Buddha shrines.

Want to learn more about this tour of Thailand and Cambodia? Read the comprehensive  journal, with photos, by Ruth Marie Lyons, who made the same trip in 2001.

Cambodia   Bangkok  River Kwai  Sukothai Chang Mai, elephants, Bangkok