Burma-Thailand Railway - 1 Day Railway Experience

Depart hotel: 7:00am

Return: 6:30pm approx.

Depart your 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 Kanchanaburi Railway Station where you will board the train for a trip on a still operating section of the Burma-Thailand Railway. Leave the train at Tham Krasae, the site of the spectacular Wang Pho Viaduct. Here the POW’s built a series of bridges where the railway hugs the cliffs on one side and with a steep drop to the River Kwai on the other.

After lunch, inspect the Wang Pho Viaduct and Krasae Cave before returning to Kanchanaburi and the Bridge over the River Kwai. Join others making the pilgrimage across this famous bridge.

Visit the Thailand-Burma Railway Centre, a museum of world renown overlooking the 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 Bangkok hotel.

Meals: Lunch

• Pick-up/Drop-off at your Bangkok Hotel

• Meals as indicated (Note: Drinks not included)

• Experienced, English-speaking guide

• Comfortable, air-conditioned car/minivan with driver

• All touring as indicated

• Train ride

• Entrance fees - Thailand-Burma Railway Centre

• Airfares, passports and visa expenses

• Bangkok accommodation

• Meals and services not mentioned

• Comprehensive travel insurance

• Personal expenses (e.g. telephone, internet, laundry, drinks, souvenirs etc.)

• Tips to Guide and Driver

If you find that you are unable to join a tour that has been booked, confirmed and paid in part or in full, the paid amount of that tour less any unrecoverable costs, may be converted to a voucher. The value of that voucher may be used towards the same tour with a later departure date or any other HWT tour.

If a refund is requested, the following cancellation fees may be deducted from the paid amount:

• Greater than 10 days prior to tour start date - 10% of total tour amount + any unrecoverable costs

• 10 Days or less (including 'no show') prior to tour start date - No refund

• Kanchanaburi War Cemetery – Low

• Train trip - Low

• Wang Pho Viaduct – Moderate

• Bridge over the River Kwai – Moderate-High

• Thailand-Burma Railway Centre – Low-Moderate