Thailand - River Kwai

On our last day in Thailand, we decided to take a tour of the Bridge on the River Kwai. It was a cool trip, which included a ride on a bamboo raft, an elephant ride, a ride on the Death Railway... and a 2-hr tour bus ride to get there and back.

This is the actual bridge on the river Kwai. The part in the middle was rebuilt after bombing, but the rounded parts are from the original bridge.

One of the old guard towers at the bridge.

From there we took a bamboo raft up the river. The scenery of this part of Thailand is incredible.

We ended our rafting trip at this small camp where they have the elephant rides.

At this point in the elephant ride, our driver jumped off to take some pictures of us. This was a little freaky, seeing as how neither Jenn nor I know how to steer one of these things.

Jenn and her elephant. It actually looks like it's smiling.

We then got to ride on the infamous Death Railway.

This is a portion of the Death Railway. More than 16000 POW's died in the construction of this railway during WWII - that's around 38 deaths/km of rail. Most of these deaths were a result of sickness, malnutrition or exhaustion.

Someone looks a little TOO happy riding on the Death Railway...