A name notorious because of the 1952 novel and 1957 film ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’, the River Kwai winds its way through the greenery covered province of Kanchanaburi. The town of Kanchanaburi sits of the confluence of two branches of the River Kwai and it is here that you’ll find the famous bridge and the Death Railway which follows the river for a time as it makes its way towards Burma.