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The Bridge on the River Kwai

What remains today of the original bridge over the River Kwai, a part of the same name David Lean's film (based on the novel by Pierre Boulle), seven Oscars in 1958?

In Kanchanaburi, the Bridge has become a tourist destination, surrounded by souvenir stands and crossed by an unlikely colored train designed specifically for tourists, while the roads of guesthouses bear the names of the countries involved in World War II. Del

original bridge - destroyed in the central part, by Allied bombing in '45 - are the external field, made with wood harvested and transported by sixty thousand prisoners of war, Australians, British, German and Asian Americans and two hundred thousand forced laborers.

Here the railway of death, carved in the rock with his bare hands, in the middle of the jungle in Thailand: 415 miles of line built by the Japanese in '42 to join the Thailand to Burma (Myanmar).

is built from both countries: 16 September 1942 the Allied prisoners and Asians began to work both from the base of Kanchanaburi, where there were nine regiments, both from the Japanese base at Thanbyuzayat where there were five.

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