{"id":2358,"date":"2015-05-08T10:13:02","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T08:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/?p=2358"},"modified":"2015-05-08T10:13:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T08:13:02","slug":"building-bridge-kwai-river-thailand-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/2358-building-bridge-kwai-river-thailand-not","title":{"rendered":"Building a bridge over Kwai River in Thailand&#8230; or not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we travel by ourselves,\u00a0sometimes we do not arrive where we expected and\u00a0sometimes we have to improvise solutions to avoid an obstacle or to step over it like here. That&#8217;s what the team of Top Gear USA who conducted a tour in Burma last year had to do. With a little bit of excess\u00a0as usual: <strong>they built\u00a0a bridge in Thailand<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4728\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4728\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4728 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/kanchanaburi-river-kwai-bridge-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"River Kwai bridge Thailand\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" data-wp-imgselect=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bridge on the River Kwai, the true one<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the end of their trip in\u00a0Myanmar (yes, we should\u00a0not say\u00a0Burma any more), Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond arrived in Thailand facing the River Kwai \u00a0famous for its bridge. Except where they arrive, there was no bridge. The bridge is in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/en\/cities\/kanchanaburi\">Kanchanaburi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No problem, they decided to build one. At first it was a bit chaotic, but they get more and more help and resources and succeed in realizing their building over the River Kwai&#8230; River Kwai, really ?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xhrhkXxyc2Y\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Proud of their work, they look at the map and realize that they did not built a bridge over the River Kwai.\u00a0They built a bridge over the river&#8230; kok.<\/p>\n<p>Sure it&#8217;s less class to say <strong><em>&#8220;we built a bridge over the river cock&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we travel by ourselves,\u00a0sometimes we do not arrive where we expected and\u00a0sometimes we have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-generalities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2359,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358\/revisions\/2359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}