Opium Museum Ban Sop Ruak

Stopped here for a few hours, visited the opium museum, no free samples. This is the point where Thailand, Laos and Myanmar meet and is the centre of the poppy growing ...

... growing opium poppies now (in theory) and are being encouraged to concentrate on tourists (and other crops) but we visited the Opium Museum to find out all about it. There was also a very old temple being restored with the most amazing bamboo ...