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Curious Places Thailand Travel Tales

Death Railway’s End and the H.I.V. Staircase

The official name for the Death Railway was the Thailand-Burma Railway when it was being…

Benjamin Williams31 May 2014

Curious Places Thailand Travel Tales

The Death Railway: Just Along for the Ride

It was a legendary railroad, but a late start leaving everyone else behind in Kanchanaburi.…

Benjamin Williams29 May 2014

Photo Challenges Thailand

Golden Hour in Western Thailand

View Golden Hour in a larger map The temple I was searching for at maximum…

Benjamin Williams13 July 2013

Photo Challenges

Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreign

On the far western edge of the Death Railway, I was walking the tracks on…

Benjamin Williams28 October 2012

Curious Places Thailand Travel Tales

A Walk Along the Death Railway

There’s no point in travelling if you aren’t going to let your whims get the…

Benjamin Williams18 July 2012

Benjamin Williams

Hi all, my name is Ben. I’m a native Michigander with a passion for human culture and new places, and more than that, new experiences. I have degrees in archaeology and writing, pursuing a career in the latter. However, I never quite lost that fascination with archaeological theory. For the past 12 years, I’ve been living and travelling in Asia, Europe, and North America documenting ancient sites and the peoples who built them, and then adapting them into practical archaeological travel information at PathsUnwritten.com.

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