The Bridge on the River Kwai or not

Took a walk up to the bridge this morning.

There is a small market with food and drink stalls just outside the train station, also some restaurants around the area and some floating restaurants on the river. The bridge is a popular photo hot spot, many people trying to get the perfect instagram shot, especially if there is a train due. There are viewing platforms along the bridge so if a train does come along (only about 4 a day) then you can stand on them until the train passes. You can also take a speedboat or raft ride down the river and visit some sites further out.

Most people congregate around the first half of the bridge, not many actually make it all the way across. It takes more effort dodging all the people stopping to take pics than it does to walk across the bridge,I crossed the bridge and visited the temple on the other side. It is very quiet at the far end.

This is not actually the river Kwai, the guy who wrote the book got his rivers mixed up. The river the bridge was built over river actually called Mae Klong, however once the film of the book came out tourists started to visit the place to see the Bridge on the River Kwai. To stop confusion the Thais decided to rename a stretch of the river to Kwai Yai, which is where the Bridge is,

Small restaurant at the other end sells durian ice lollys if anybody fancies one.

There is also a small monument to the Chinese who died working on building the railway, it is not very well maintained and doesn’t look like it gets many visitors. Basically it is just an open air photo gallery.

The temple on the far side is Chinese, a lot different from normal Thai Temples.#

Set of status representing the Chinese Zodiac, I was born in the year of the pig,

Two monkeys having a chat,,,, who do they remind you of ?

Walked about 5 miles in total and was hitting 40 degrees when I got back to the guesthouse, the last 500 yards seemed to take forever. Suffering a bit from the heat and felt sick so just chilled by the river a bit

Off to the seaside tomorrow so hopefully should be a bit cooler there,