Our last day in Kanchanaburi

After breakfast and packing we went out onto the main drag and hired a couple of mopeds; one green one for the boys and a pink one for me, we only had a few hours to spare so they cost us about £3 each. Cliff would like me to point out that in this photo he is wearing a support for his sprained ankle and NOT an Alan Partridge style sock. We made our way to the museum which is
really well laid out and has some interesting personal items donated by former PoWs or their families. I bought a spray of flowers from the museum shop and after a coffee (free with the price of entry) we crossed the road to the cemetary and Liam picked a grave to place the flowers on. We had a bit of a whizz around town and then back to have some lunch (the pad thai is getting better). We'd booked a mini bus back to Bangkok instead of the bus we arrived on, it was a little bit more expensive but meant that we got collected from the place we were staying, it was more direct and also we'd get dropped off by a convenient skytrain stop in the city, so that it was just a short hop with heavy bags back to our hotel.

Last night we passed a memorial to the members of the Allied forces that had died during the construction of the Thailand-Burma railway. Not unusual you might think, but this one had been erected by the then Japanese Army during the conflict, in February 1944. Members of the Japanese community hold a memorial service there every year. During the building of the railway (bearing in mind that between 80,000 - 100,000 died, 16,000 of those Allied prisoners) the Japanese seemed to hold onto their beliefs surrounding death; paying for and allowing for funerals of the PoWs . Quite astonishing.