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The intrepid travellers venture out
... 8217;ve seen one limestone cave you’ve pretty much seen them all. That is unless they have a Buddhist temple built into them. It was quite interesting.
Then we visited another temple where James went through the entire story of the beginning of Buddhism. For someone interested in religion it might have been enthralling but it was a very, very long explanation. It was very obvious though that to James it was ...
The Golden Triangle Loop ... by bike!!!
... the bike :) yay for me!!!
We watched sunset from Phra Boromathat Chedi. - which is in front of Wat Santikhiri.
“A modern, standard-issue Thai temple guarding the approach path to the Phra Boromathat Chedi. A chedi (Thai-style stupa) built on a hill near Mae Salong village, in honour of the late Princess Mother, Srinagarindra”.
The view from up here is lovely – when we eventually got there after taking the first wrong turn ...
Golden Triangle
We ended our three day trip at the Golden Triangle. This is where three countries meet. Thailand, Burma and Laos. The junction is at a bend in the Mekong River. We took a long boat ride on the river. They took us up the river to Burma and then back down to Laos. It was and interesting ride. We got off in Laos and they do not stamp your visa so we were able to get off and they again had more ...
Cruise along the Mekong River, Lao
... and it was only the workers plus the six people in our tour group on board.
Along the shores of the Mekong in Laos are some beautiful scenery and basic settlements. These houses are only accessible by boat, more often than not without electricity and made by products of the local, natural environment. On both sides of the river there are always forest, even though the land isn't ...
Golden Buddha and naughty baby elephant
... 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 scaffolding. . The main thing we could see in Burma was an enormous casino/hotel complex which, along with a similar one on the Laos side of the Mekong allow the Thai to gamble - casinos are illegal in Thailand ...
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