| 07:00 hrs | Meet your English-speaking guide in the hotel’s lobby. Depart for Kanchanaburi, located 128 kilometers (80 miles) west of Bangkok. It is Thailand’s third largest province with an area of 19,486 square kilometers. The provincial area is mountaineous and has the west border next to Myanmar. |
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| 09:00 hrs | Visit JEATH War Museum, a realistic depiction of prisoner of war living quarters, with photographic, pictorial and physical memorabilia dating from World War II. |
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| 09:30 hrs | Continue to Kanchanaburi War Cemetery It contains the remains of 6,982 war prisoners (mostly the British, Dutch, Australian and American) who lost their lives during the construction of the Bridge over the River Kwai and the railway to Burma (the Death Railway). |
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| 10:00 hrs | Then visit world-famous Bridge over the River Kwai, a part of the Death Railway constructed by Allied prisoners of war. Take leisurely walks around town and pictures on the world-renowned Death Railway. |
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| 11:00 hrs | Visit Srinakarin Dam, the country?s largest hydropower producer of electricity. Listen to lecture and take pictures around the reservoir. |
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| 12:00 hrs | Lunch at local restaurant. |
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| 12:30 hrs | Depart the dam for the largest and most beautiful waterfall in the western region, Erawan Waterfall is on the bank of Kwai Yai River in Khao Salop (Erawan) National Park. It is about 2,000 metres tall divided into 7 levels. The atmosphere in this always-verdant national park is serene, peaceful and rich with innumerable plant and flower species, perfectly conducive to sight-seeing and trekking. Relax, swim and enjoy natural surroundings at own leisure. |
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| 14:30 hrs | Leave form Kanchanaburi pass green paddy fields, villages, and temples then return to bangkok. |
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