TANKS Travel Tales - a travelogue.......

Note from the  Author : This was actually a very short trip and I visited only the Kanchanaburi area. The aim was to travel to that famous "Bridge over the River Kwai". You might have read about this famous bridge or watch the movies (as far as I know, there are at least two popular movies featuring this bridge). The trip was during the month of June in 1999 and it was included in this blog for purely nostalgic reasons! - Timothy, Sep 2014 For those who do not know, a short introduction will be that this bridge over the River Kwai in Thailand was supposedly part of the so-called Death Railway. The railway was so-named because many Prisoners-of-War (POW) were forced to built it by the then-Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. In the course of its construction, many died due to the atrocius working conditions. Anyway, I shall leave the more detailed explanations to the history books. Why not, join me and take a tour of the "Bridge over the River Kwai" or

Note from the  Author : I originally wrote this article way back in April, 1995. This was my first-ever overseas trip and I was generally both excited and overawed by what I saw and experienced during this trip. Between 1995 and now, Tokyo and all of the places described in this article had undergone much changes. The reason why I still include the article in this blog is to allow readers to read about the experience of a first-time traveller on his first trip! T he photographs in this article were also the original photos that were taken at the time of the trip i.e. 1995! Since that first visit, I have regularly travelled to Japan and Tokyo many times and will be including articles of my latest visits in this travel blog soon. Keep a lookout for the articles of my latest trips to Japan.  - Timothy, Sep 2014 Japan is a large country and I have only been to Tokyo. Although Tokyo is the capital of Japan, I'm sure there is more to the country than this city. In May 1995, I was s