Tiger temple - Wat Pa Luangta Bua, Thailand
Tiger Temple, or Wat Pa Luangta Bua, is a Buddhist temple in Western Thailand (about 38KM from Kanchanaburi). The temple keeps numerous animals, among them several tame tigers that walk around freely once a day and can be petted by tourists. Rumours have it that they are drugged to stop them eating the tourists - [...]
Kanchanaburi - The bridge on the river Kwai
Has anyone seen the Academy Award-winning 1957 film The bridge on the river Kwai? It’s one of those classic war films that I loved so much as a child.
The film is apparently a fairly inaccurate depiction of the construction of the Burma Railway, also known as the Death Railway, or the Thailand-Burma Railway - a [...]