![]() ![]() The bridges actually spanned the Mae Klong, but as the railway subsequently follows the Khwae Noi Valley, the bridges became famous under the wrong name. The other was made of concrete and steel and still exists. The river is chiefly known for its association with the Pierre Boulle novel, The Bridge over the River Kwai and David Lean's film adaptation of the novel, The Bridge on the River Kwai, in which Australian, Dutch, and British prisoners of war and indigenous peoples were forced by the Japanese to construct two parallel bridges spanning a river as part of the Burma Railway, also called the "Railway of Death" or "Thai-Burma Death Railway", due to the many lives lost in its construction. At Kanchanaburi it merges with the Khwae Yai River to form the Mae Klong River, which empties into the Gulf of Thailand at Samut Songkhram. It begins at the confluence of Ranti, Songkalia and Bikhli Rivers. It rises to the east of the Salween in the north–south spine of the Bilauktaung range near, but not over the border with Burma. The River Kwai ( / k w aɪ/), more correctly Khwae Noi ( Thai: แควน้อย, pronounced, 'small tributary') or Khwae Sai Yok ( แควไทรโยค, pronounced ), is a river in western Thailand. ![]()
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