Depart hotel: 7:00am

Return: 7:30pm approx.

Depart your central Bangkok hotel for Kanchanaburi on the River Kwai and the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery. Walk around this beautifully landscaped area and begin to realise why the railway became known as the ‘Death Railway’.

Proceed to the Hellfire Pass area having lunch along the way.

Visit the Australian Government supported Hellfire Pass Interpretive Centre. Displays, photos and dioramas depict the construction of the railway through this mountainous section and the hardships that the POWs had to endure.

Walk down the stairway from the Centre to the disused railway bed below and proceed to Hellfire Pass. Be amazed at how this huge railway cutting was built with little more than basic hand tools while the POWs worked 16 to 17 hours a day. Take time for some quiet reflection on the sacrifices of the POWs, at the Weary Dunlop and the Hellfire Pass Memorials.

Return to Kanchanaburi and visit the Bridge over the River Kwai. Join others in making the return pilgrimage across this famous bridge.

If time permits, visit the Thailand-Burma Railway Centre, a museum of world renown overlooking the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery. Dioramas, artefacts (retrieved from various camps and work sites along the railway) and personal stories of POW’s, all combine to give you a better appreciation of the railway story.

Return to your central Bangkok hotel.

Meals: Lunch

Hotel: Own arrangement