Sights along the River Kwai
HERITAGE, TEMPLES & NATURE
Along The River (K)Way
From Khmer ruins and cave temples to waterfalls, hot springs and the moving memorials of the Death Railway: these are the places you discover on your RV River Kwai cruise. Each page tells you more about the history, what you will experience, and on which cruise and day you visit it.
A local train ride on the historic Death Railway across the wooden Wang Pho viaduct, with a visit to Krasae Cave above the river.
A small, moving museum in replica bamboo huts, founded by a local abbot to remember the prisoners of the Death Railway.
A cave temple with nine illuminated caverns full of Buddhist and Hindu shrines – and traces of the Second World War.
An 18-metre seated Buddha and a towering chedi on a hilltop above the rice fields of the Mae Klong valley.
Thailand's tallest stupa, glowing golden-brown above Nakhon Pathom – the first highlight on the way from Bangkok to the River Kwai.
A Chinese temple on a hilltop near Kanchanaburi, with a seven-tiered pagoda and sweeping views over rice fields and mountains.
