Mae Klong
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The Mae Klong (Thai: แม่กลอง) is a river in western Thailand. The river begins at the confluence of the Kwae Noi or Kwai Sai Yoke and the Kwae Yai river or Kwai Si Sawasdi in Kanchanaburi, pass Ratchaburi Province and empties into the Gulf of Thailand in Samut Songkhram.
In the 1960s the upper stretch of the river until the town of Kanchanaburi was renamed to Kwae Yai (แควใหญ่, big tributary), as the famous Bridge on the River Kwai spanned the Mae Klong and not the Kwae (Kwai) river. However the actual origin of the river is in the Khuean Srinagarindra National Park in the north of Kanchanaburi Province.
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