Kanchanaburi Is one of the popular tourist spots for both Foreigners and Local people, it is located 130km away from the city of Bangkok. The area is the package of wonderful landscapes and natural charming beauty; you can also get many places to relax and watch out stunning waterfalls and bounded hot springs. This place is also rich in history mainly from World War 2, Japanese came here and built the Death railway and took off many lives, even today you can see memories by going to museum that you will see dotted around the area. The most famous site in Kanchanaburi is the Death Railway; it is very familiar after the film ‘Bridge over the River Kwai’ in 1957.
Japanese forces used the project by helping their force by bringing supplies for them who were fighting against British in neighboring Burma. The bridge playes a keen part in the rail link between Thailand and Burma and really is the icon attraction of Kanchanaburi. There are endless places to visit in Kanchanburi they are:
The Bridge over the River Kwai
Made famous by the eponymous film, the extension has been fixed after the wooden parts were harmed during the war. The train proceeds to the furthest limit of the track, giving vacationers a beautiful and calming venture.
Kanchanaburi SaiYok National Park
It has a few attractions, including delightful cascades, the Old Railway Bridge, intriguing caverns, and nature trails.
WatThamSuea
Encased in this peak sanctuary is a striking 18m-tall Buddha shrouded in brilliant mosaic. A few styles of stupas, the greatest being 69m tall, encompass this delightful sanctuary, and wall paintings depict Kanchanaburi’s history and Buddha pictures.
Kanchanaburi Floating River hotels
As Kanchanaburi spreads out around the River Kwai, numerous lodgings, manors, and resorts offer convenience and exercises based nearby the waterway. Remaining at these inns is a novel and beautiful convenience experience, where one can remain or eat on the waterway encompassed by rich mountains and wilderness.
War cemeteries
Keeping with its history, Kanchanaburi has different war graveyards and exhibition halls that honor the detainees who worked here. Wear Rak burial ground fills in as the resting place for 6,982 Allied detainees who died while developing the Death Railway.