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The Golden Triangle

A travel blog entry by dane

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Sop Ruak is touristy, crowded, and barely worth the effort of getting there. Fortunately, it wasn't an important stop on our travels. We were just killing time. The ride from there to Mae Sai was much cooler. We saw some people ...

Watch out Delia!

A travel blog entry by lizandsimon

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... they pick a table and buy the Thai girl a drink and it goes from there. Its quite sad really. Even more disturbing is Thailand has the highest number of sex change operations than anywhere else in the world and some of these extremely pretty girls weren't ...

Illagal border crossings, I'm sure of it...

A travel blog entry by fourloves

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After all, I am now travelling with the two Brazilians from the Meditation Course - Pedro and Eduardo, and the Huge-dread guy who kept popping up in and around CM - Tom from Britain. Add this to the fact that I paid exorbitant amounts of money here at ...

Hall of Opium

A travel blog entry by mikeandjess

... between Europe, India and China to the present. Next it outlined the history of opium use and production within Thailand's borders. I found it interesting that even when it was legal to produce opium, it was illegal for the Thai people ...

Golden Triangle

A travel blog entry by jenk

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This morning, some of the members of our group took a tour up to the Golden Triangle - famous for the opium trading. We took a speed boat ride on the Mekhong River and stopped in Laos. We saw the casinos in Myanmar/Burma but didn't get to visit there. We ...

Beautiful Laos

A travel blog entry by trent

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I was up early to meet Justin and the others for the bus to Laos. I met up with Justin and 3 young Brits that he had met previously. Jamo and Juliano never made it, so we left without them. We crossed the Thai border through Chiang Khong and took a ...

The Golden Triangle

A travel blog entry by neale_-_lou

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... would take us to three countries in one day. Firstly, we left Chiang-Mai at 7am on a minibus and headed for the border of Thailand and Burma (Myanmar). It was a four hour drive along some pretty windy roads! On the way we made a diversion to visit the ...

The Golden Triangle

A travel blog entry by marmotstew

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 ...

Trip to the Golden triangle

A travel blog entry by katarina.beal

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This is where Thialand, Laos and Burma meet. Managed to get a boat to enter Laos (illegally) and stayed there for 20 minutes before shooting off to Burmees ...

Golden Triangle

A travel blog entry by brianpbrady

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Day 5: Mai Sai to Sop Ruak Where the mighty Mekong meets the Ruak River, so do the countries of Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand. This is the center of the area famously known as "The Golden Triangle", so named because of its prominence in the production and ...

The golden Triangle

A travel blog entry by sneekybeeky

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Donsao, Laos

A travel blog entry by kel00

Donsao Island + The Golden Triangle. The Mekong River ...

Day Trip

A travel blog entry by clairemaude

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... to on the way home! Took a river trip, did a bit of shopping in Laos, then went to the northern most part of Thailand before you reach Myanmar for more shoppig and a trip to a gem factory specialising in Jade sculptures. I was hit hard with the sales ...

Orient Express

A travel blog entry by stantheman

Up untill now we had enjoyed Thailand so much that we were running rather severley behind scedule. The visa-upon-arival British citizens get given at the border entitled us to a mere 30 days in a big country and we wanted to head up into Laos via the more ...

Golden Triangle

A travel blog entry by taffyscouse

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canyon kanoying and Elephant riding

A travel blog entry by chrisandfreya

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Another early start, quick breki before we got picked up by one of the old, wooden long-tail boats - Ahh I love them.. along some most picturesque scenery back to the mainland. The first part of the day was filled with kayaking through mangrove forests ...

Day tour of the Golden Triangle

A travel blog entry by rrosenthal

... spend the night. Today's agenda is a day tour to the Golden Triangle, the meeting point of Burma, Laos and Thailand at the conflux of the Ruak and Mekong ('Maekhong' in Thai) rivers. This infamous point is the area in which powerful warlords have fought ...

GT

A travel blog entry by kyselicab

Ahojte, dnes rano sme sa boli pozret v Golden Triangle, miesto, kde hranici THA, LAO, BARMA. Rano sme nasadli na zeleny autobus 2 trieda, (aj s klimatizaciou-otvorene dvere). Potom sme presadli na taky nakladacik, kde su vzadu 2 lavice pre 5 ludi. Tak ...

Four Seasons Tented Camp Golden Triangle

A travel blog entry by kitkatgo

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To arrive at the Four Seasons Tented Camp, you must drive to a point at the river and meet hotel staff who will then take you by speed boat. It's quite an exhilarating ride. There wasn't much wild life to see, but you can see farmers on both sides of the ...

Golden Buddha and naughty baby elephant

A travel blog entry by dwmjmm

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... - for some of us at least!) we decided to have a leisurely day today. Took a shuttle minibus to the nearby village of Sop Ruak and wandered around and sat and watched the world go by. Wonderful viewpoint of the Golden Triangle - Burma to the north/west; ...

Family Love

A travel blog entry by courtneyjensen

... while mom and I sat up front drinking red wine of the flimsiest plastic cups ever made. The scenery of northern Thailand was incredibly picturesque and all of the local hill tribe people washing clothes, fishing and swimming in the river waved and ...

Golden Triangle

A travel blog entry by sandrasjraar

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... zijn we uit de boot gegaan en konden we een half uur rondlopen. Hierna werden we weer terug gebracht met de speedboot naar Thailand. In Birma mochten we niet uitstappen omdat dit te gevaarlijk was. Na de lunch reden we door naar het meest noordelijke punt ...

Opium

A travel blog entry by tux1980

Up early for our day trip to the Golden Triangle. First stop was the Karan Longneck Village which was amazing - felt a bit weird just showing up and taking photos of them though. I bought a couple of things then we headed to a geyser where we sampled ...

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Hall of Opium

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The Golden Triangle

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Trip to the Golden triangle

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The golden Triangle

Donsao, Laos

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Orient Express

Golden Triangle

canyon kanoying and Elephant riding

Day tour of the Golden Triangle

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Four Seasons Tented Camp Golden Triangle

Golden Buddha and naughty baby elephant

Family Love

Golden Triangle

Opium