Welcome to the Three Pagodas Challenge 2018! Ten of us are going to cycle the route of the infamous Death Railway from Bangkok to the Thai-Myanmar border at Three Pagodas. Our target is to raise in excess of one million Thai baht (approx. £23,000) for four great charities.

Along with a small support team, we will set off from the Commonwealth War Memorial in the grounds of the British Embassy Bangkok at dawn on January 11th 2018 to follow the railway's 375 km route. After cycling for 3.5 tough days we will finish at the spot where the train tracks used to cross the border. It will be hot, long and difficult.

Each charity will get 25% of everything we raise. Please do support us. We're covering our own costs so every penny you give us in sponsorship will go to these four fantastic charities (but please note that Just Giving take 5% of donations via this site). We're using a crowdfunding page as this allows us to transfer the funds equally, including to Thailand. Please do share, like and retweet our posts.

You can track our progress and help us get the message out on Twitter @BKK3PC and Facebook @3PagodasChallenge.

Who are we? A bunch of friends - Thais and Brits - who all work at the British Embassy, Bangkok.

Why the Three Pagodas route? It's a bloody long way and a real challenge - “can the couch potatoes actually do it?” We think we can. It won't be easy but the money we hope to raise for these important causes will make all the pain worthwhile.

Three Pagodas is the end of the Thai section of the original Death Railway. It was built using forced labour of allied PoWs and many south east Asian civilian labourers during WWII. We will be remembering all who died. Our route goes past its start at Thonburi Station, then to Kanchaburi,and the Bridge over the River Kwai. We pass two Commonwealth War Graves Cemeteries and "Hellfire Pass" before heading onto roads through the jungle to the border.

Why these charities? They mean something to us. And our choice seeks to benefit people in the UK, Thailand and Myanmar.

Thank you!