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Leslie and view - IMG 6135
an overlook from the Hellfire Pass museum - IMG 6132
our mini-group - IMG 6130
I had never heard a word of this, but evidently during WW2, the Japanese (who had taken over Thailand and basically everywhere else in Asia) decided they needed a railroad to Burma, so they took some western POWs and a whole lot of Asian laborers and basically worked them to death building the thing. They hacked out this pass with hand drills in something like three weeks. - IMG 6131
looking up from bottom - IMG 6128
A tour group that's way bigger than ours. - IMG 6129
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Our first taste of jungle-walking. - IMG 6124
Group shot on the railroad tracks. - IMG 6126
Hellfire pass: try chiseling by hand, with sadistic Japanese guards throwing rocks down on you. I dare you. - IMG 6121
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So many monkeys. - IMG 6118
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That's right, monkeys. - IMG 6111
view out the back - IMG 6115
We stop to photograph some monkeys. - IMG 6108
sunset over our hotel - IMG 6110
Our first (of many) song tao (I'm guessing on the spelling) rides: I speculate about starting a taxi business in Berkeley and my dreams are crushed by the imagined cost of insurance. - IMG 6105
Leslie on the bridge - IMG 6106
blurry picture of us about to get a massage in a rather sketchy place - IMG 6102
our first elephant sighting - IMG 6104
walking across the bridge - IMG 6100
more bridge - IMG 6101
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The Bridge Over River Kwai - IMG 6099
Catie on a boat - IMG 6093
A war cemetery maintained by the British government in honor of the POWs (mostly British and Dutch) who died in Thailand during WW2. - IMG 6094
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Tree roots growing down into cave.