The actual bridge the movie was about was destroyed at the end of the film, but other bridges were built to create a route from Burma to Thailand. Today there is a bridge in Thailand that is called "the Bridge on the River Kwai" and nearby is a DEATH Museum dedicated to the prisoners of war who died building the various bridges. Across the street from the museum is a cemetary where British and Australian soldiers who died during the construction are buried.

After visiting the museum, we drove to site of the bridge where we waited for a train to actually cross the bridge.

There is a market alongside the tracks and afterwards we had lunch at a seafood restaurant on the River Kwai. We learned that the usual foreign pronunciation of the name of the river is wrong. Kwai, as is said by foreigners, means buffalo. The correct pronunciation of the river is "kway".

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