Early in the morning I took a walk through the Resotel grounds and the Mon village to Lawa cave. I didn't go in because there wasn't time. But I enjoyed the walk up there.
 
Came back down and met up with Rhiannon to go have our breakfast buffet, then back to the room to meet up with Bobo to help with our bags . We caught our speedboat which took us part of the way down the river to where we got out and took a truck to Hellfire Pass. There's a nice little museum, then you can walk through the most famous part, the narrow channel that earned the name and was arguably the most brutal part of the whole project. In the pictures when Bobo is doing something or showing us something it is the original pins and rails and other items of how they worked and how the rail was built. Dynamite divots, even.
 
Back up the many stairs and to the front of the museum to meet our truck which took us back to the pier. We wait for our boat - the one that has all of our luggage, then it was blasting down the very scenic river, once again. I really, really, really enjoyed those boat rides up and down the river. It's about 45 minutes down the river from the main port to our hotel. On the way back this time we saw some folks riding elephants in the water. (See pictures.) 

We had a surprisingly good lunch at 'local restaurant' at boat pier, then clambored back on to the big bus for transport to the train station that holds up one end of the short span of the original Thai-Burma railway that still runs. We rode that from one end to the other, then met up with the bus again. Traffic was awful, it took 3+ hours of torturous stop-and-go and backroads, then transfer to minivan - another torturous hour. After 8p check in at hotel.