English Project

2. English Project about Tourist attraction in Kanchanaburi

3. By Woo!! Kanchanaburi So Beautiful English-French Program The Project Advisor Mrs.Jantana Khum-anukul Kanchananukroh school Amphoe Muang Kanchanaburi

4. Preface In nowadays the tourism regards again the one factor of a human, something get relax regard the happiness will in order to , flee from the way of life that agitate , and Kanchanaburi our that city is full a lot of tourist beautiful attraction. Can observe that Kanchanaburi that city will like to to have a tourist stays plentiful , we then think should do the project about the tourist attraction in the Kanchanaburi. From learning about the travel places inKanchanaburi. It is very useful for group. We would kike to thank kindness of Mrs.Jantana Khum-anukul and our parents.

5. Process 1.Gather into a group and very meet to fix. 2.Project headings see TRUE place and seek. 3.Project data gather into a group and assign the work translate English and seek the data add. 4.Lead the work down power point. 5.Present the work in classroom format Hi-Tech.

6. Planning 1.A group and very meet to fix. 2. Project data gather into a group and assign the work translate English and seek the data add, as follws. -Salwanee Puakpon 1 place Erawan National Park -Kamontip Thamanitaworn 2 places Burma Railway Wat Wangwiwekaram

7. -Kritsana Khunsara 2 places Chalerm Rattanakosin National Park Thum Krasae -Patsaraporn Ard-huan 1 place Three Pagodas Pass -Witita Kratrytong 1 place Tiger Temple -Sakunrat Kham-o-pas 1 person Dr.Prawase Wasi -Sarunruk Mandech 1 place Hillfire Pass -Warisara Mokloung 1 place Srinakarin Dam

8. Dr. PRAWASE WASI

9. Dr. PRAWASE WASI, in his rise from poor farmer's son to university professor, has shown that the medical profession offers an opportunity to serve others and one's country consequentially. Born 50 years ago at Kanchanaburi in the Khaw River Valley near Burma, PRAWASE saw as a boy that the rich could do something about their lives while the poor were helpless, and he vowed to aid them. He worked his way through school and received.

10. the gold medal for the highest academic achievement in his class at the government Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, University of Medical Sciences, from which he graduated in 1955. After three and a half years of advanced study in hematology at the University of Colorado, and in human genetics at London University, he returned in 1961 to join the Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, in the newly named Mahidol University of which he is Vice Rector for Planning and Development.

12. Tiger Temple

13. Tiger Temple Tiger Temple, or Wat Pa Luang Ta Bua, is a Buddhist temple in Western Thailand which keeps numerous animals, among them several tame tigers that walk around freely once a day and can be petted by tourists. The Theravada Buddhist temple is located in the Saiyok district of Kanchanaburi province. It was founded in 1994 as a forest temple and sanctuary for numerous wild animals. The first tigers came from government officials and others who wanted to get rid of their tiger “pets” or were under pressure to do so as laws and policies surrounding the keeping of CITES protected species became stricter.

14. They spend most of the time in cages, being fed with cooked chicken, beef, and dry cat food. The meat is cooked to avoid giving the tigers a taste for blood and also to kill the bird flu that may be present in raw food.They are washed and handled by Thai staff and the younger tigers by the volunteers. Once a day, they are led on leashes to a nearby quarry. Originally they would roam around freely in this area, but now with the increase in tourists and the amount of tigers who sit in the canyon will always be chained.

15. Thai staff and some volunteers lead tourists around by the hand to post with and take photographs using the tourist’s camera. The staffs keep the tigers under control and the Abbott will intervene if the tiger gets agitated. Nervous tourists may also observe this from about 10 meters away. The temple collects donations for feeding and upkeep, and to fund the building of a larger tiger sanctuary which would allow the animals to live in an almost natural environment all day long.

17. Wat Wangwiwekaram Wat Wangwiwekaram is the temple which is situated near Mon Bridge, approximately 225 kilometers away from Kanchanaburi town. This extensive temple on the southern outskirts of Sangkhlaburi edges on Khao Laem reservoir. The complex is constructed in an unusual mix of Thai, Indian, and Burmese Buddhist architectural styles, and the abbot “Luang Por Uttama” is highly revered among local people,Thai, Karen, Mon, including tribal folk and Burmese.The temple was built on the donation of villagers who had faith in Abbot Uttama. It is the shrine of Mon’s pride and the most important temple of Sangkhlaburi.

18. The land mark is the 59 metres high replica of Chedi Buddhakhaya. The top of the Chedi contains Buddha’s relics from Sri Lanka. The shrine houses “Luang Por Khao”, a large white marble Buddha image. Near the lake is an exotic bell tower built in Mon architecture. But back to the old Wangwiwekaram Temple,which was sunk in the lake from the construction of Vachiralongkorn Dam in 1979. Luang Por Uttama, the Chief Monk of the temple rebuilt the New Wangwiwekaram Temple on the bank of river in Amphoe Sangkhlaburi. So, the old temple becomes to the underworld, wonderful architecture and beautiful nature surroundings, It would appear the old temple up in dry season.

20. Tham Krasae

21. About Tham Krasae Cave krasae away from Kanchanaburi town about 55 kilometers to 323 kilometers by highway number to 29-30 this cave was a cave housing a prisoner of war when the route is building rail line from Thailand to Burma dying. Cavity adjacent to the railway line route Kanchanaburi - Nam Tok

22. The rail line is a contemporary history of World War 2 ended the current railway station cascade Within the porous cavity and sacred Buddha image is enshrined. View from the cave entrance near the train will see beautiful scenery and views over the river small river below. This area is difficult to build a rail. Curve along the path because he Distance trains, which run sandwich Rim cliffs of 400 meters in length quite

24. Tham Than Lot

25. Chaloem Rattanakosin National Park Chaloem Rattanakosin National Park is the smallest park in Kanchanaburi province. Its main features are fertile forests, steep limestone mountains, waterfalls and mysterious caves. The park was designated in February 1980 as Thailand's 17th national park covering an area of 59 square kilometers. The forested, limestone mountains of the park are the watershed of Mae Klong river. The highest peak in the park is Kam Paeng mountain which reaches 1260 meters.

26. The park is mostly covered by dry evergreen forest, deciduous forest with some areas of bamboo forest. There are many kinds of animal in the park, such as leopard, Banteng, Gaur, deer, white-handed gibbons and monkeys.Over 60 species of bird have been recorded in the park. A special type of animal is "water dog“ or barking tree frog (Manam of Kiadwag in Thai), a rare frog with a croak that is remarkably similar to a dog's bark.

27. In this National Park, there are two caves: Tharn Lod Noi Cave and Tharn Lod Yai Cave. Tharn Lod Noi Cave The subtle lighting in this 300 meters cave illuminates the many stalactites. A small stream inside cools the air in the cave. A 2km trail leads from this cave to its sister cave. On this trail there is a huge tree covered with bamboo stakes that villagers use to climb and collect honey from bee nests in the upper branches. An hour walk would take one to the other cave. And Tharn Lod Yai cave, a spectacular sinkhole with a natural stone arch over the stream. The cave is an ancient graveyard; and weapons, skeletons and charms have been found in the cave.

29. Burma Railway

30. Burma Railway The Burma Railway, also known as the Death Railway, the Thailand-Burma Railway and similar names, is a 415 km (258 miles) railway between Bangkok, Thailand and Rangoon, Burma (now Myanmar), built by the Empire of Japan during World War II, to support its forces in the Burma campaign. Forced labor was used in its construction.

31. About 200,000 Asian laborers and 60,000 allied prisoners of war (POWs) worked on the railway. A railway route between Thailand and Burma had been surveyed at the beginning of the 20th century, by the British government of Burma, but the proposed course of the line through hilly jungle terrain divided by many rivers was considered too difficult to complete.

32. In 1942, Japanese forces, supplies and equipment transported from East and North Asia to Burma by sea, through the Strait of Malacca, were vulnerable to attack by allied submarines, and an alternative means of transport was needed. The Japanese started the project in June 1942, intending to connect Ban Pong with Thanbyuzayat in Burma through the Three Pagodas Pass. Construction started at the Thai end on 22 th June 1942 and in Burma at roughly the same time.

33. On 17th October 1943, the two lines met about 18 km south of the Three Pagodas Pass at Kaeng Khoi Tha, Sangkhlaburi District, Kanchanaburi Province. While most of the POWs were then transferred to Japan, those left to maintain the line still suffered from the appalling living conditions as well as allied air raids. After the war, the State Railway of Thailand bought the railway from the Allies for 50 million baht.

35. Three Pagodas Pass Three Pagodas Pass (Thai: ด่านเจดีย์สามองค์ pronounced Darn Chedi Sam Ong) is a pass through the Bilauktaung Mountains on the border between Thailand and Burma. The pass links the town of Sangkhlaburi in the north of Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand to the town of Payathonsu in Burma. This pass has been the main land route into western Thailand since ancient times, and is believed be the point at which Buddhist teachings reached the country from India in the 3rd century.

36. During the Ayutthaya period in Thai history (14th-18th centuries), the pass was the main invasion route for the Burmese, but was also occasionally used in the opposite direction by Thai armies. The three small, crumbling pagodas, or chedis, after which the pass is named, were probably built at the end of this period as a symbol of peace. They are now on the Thai side of the border. Parts of the border are still disputed. During World War II, Japan built the famous Death Railway through the pass.

37. There is a plaque here to commemorate the Australian prisoners of war who (with many other Allied soldiers and Asian civilians) died as forced laborers during the building of the railway. The area is home to a number of mountain peoples, including Karens, Mons and Burmese, who are unable or unwilling to obtain citizenship of either of the neighboring countries.

38. Since the end of World War II, there have been regular attempts by rebel armies to take control of the pass from Burma, with the Mon group in effective control until 1990, when Burma regained control. There are also occasional skirmishes between Karen and Mon rebel groups. Nowadays, the pass is popular with tourists who, subject to the occasional hostilities between the two countries, are allowed to obtain a one-day visa from the Thai side to visit Payathonzu. Tourist attractions on the Burmese side include the locally made wooden furniture, jade carvings, and textiles.

39. HELLFIRE PASS The Konyu Cutting (Hellfire Pass) was one part of the Death Railway during World War II. It is 73 meters long and 25 meters high rock cutting done by hand from Australian and British POWs. They started in April 1943 and finished the cutting 3 months later. The POWs were forced to work up to 18 hours a day to complete excavation of the 17 meters deep and 110 meters long cutting through solid limestone and quartz rock in only 12 weeks. A few machines were available to help. Earth and rock were broken by shovels, picks and chuckles (hoes), and carried away in baskets or sacks. Embankments of stone and earth were heaped up by human endeavor.

40. Cuttings were driven through rock by hand; metal taps and sledgehammers being used to drill holes for explosives. They were forced to work at night; in July 1943 the cutting was completed. Konyu Cutting was nicknamed “Hellfire Pass” because of the mixture of hammering noise, lighting from fires, oil fired bamboo torches and carbide lamps that created an eerie illumination that looked like the “Fires from Hell”. At least 63 men were beaten to death during the construction of the pass and many more died from starvation, dysentery and cholera. More than 70% of the POWsdied while the construction of the Death Railway.

42. Erawan Waterfall Erawan National Park was designated in June 1975, as Thailand’s12th National Park. It covers an area of 550 kilometers of high mountains and attractive valleys. The eastern mountains rise to 996 meters with shear limestone cliffs. These mountains protect the park from the eastern monsoon resulting in a low average rainfall. In summer the weather is sweltering but it is wonderfully cool between November- February.

43. The 7 levels of this stunning waterfall drop 1,500 meters down steep-sided cliffs. It is surrounded by beautiful forest with many types of trees and orchids. There is a trail as far as the 6th level and from there you have to scramble up the cliff to reach the 7th level. The climb is well worth the effort, for the sight of tumbling water, spraying off the boulders into the deep pool below.

44. The main feature of the park is the stunning Erawan Waterfall created by a profusion of small streams joining together before tumbling down the precipitous cliffs. There is dry evergreen and bamboo forest. Wildlife surveys of mammals, reptiles, birds and amphibians have been carried out. If you are lucky you may catch a glimpse of elephants, gibbons, Siamese hare, flying squirrels, eagles, white-eyes, king cobras or pythons. Fish, crabs and insect are abundant in the many streams.

46. Kanchanaburi - Safari Park

47. Just 40 km from town on the way to Bo Ploi, the Safari Park is a man-made habitat for several African & Asian animals - lions, tigers, giraffes, zebras and bears. The landscaping is beautifully designed and offers great insights into the habits of the animals. The whole area around the park is highlighted by some beautifully decorated pavilions which house gift shops, cafes and restaurants. You can tour around the park in your own car but the best way to see the whole grounds is to take one of the park's own buses.

48. The driver will take you through each section, giving you excellent photo opportunities as well as getting "up close and personal" with several animals, most notably the giraffes who will "invade" the bus for some food...great fun! Bowls of food to feed the animals can be bought from the main entrance for just a few Baht. At the centre of the park is the central pavilion restaurant and show arena.The restaurant itself sits overlooking a lake and is a good spot for a cold drink before heading off to see one of the many daily animal shows.

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