Daily Archives: December 22, 2024

The Golden Triangle

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Northern Thailand comes to a point between Laos and Myanmar (former Burma). Today’s journey was to touch into each of those countries with a few sites along the way.

Along our way we stopped in a village of Myanmar refuges from the Karen heritage. This former Burmese indigenous people are known for their females carrying on the lifelong commitment to rings on their neck that by dropping their shoulders make the appearance of having very long necks. The lady you see us with has the longest neck in the village.
Karen Long Neck Village
Typical kitchen in the Karen village
Tea Plantation
Monkey Temple
The Golden Triangle. We are standing in Thailand. The land behind us is Myanmar. To the right is Laos.
We took a high speed boat to officially cross the boarders of both Myanmar and Laos.
We are officially in Myanmar at this point, although we could not make landfall.
We did officially step ground on Laos and walked around a bit.
Jonathan is holding up one Of the key ingredients to Laotian Whiskey….Cobra.
We then went back to Chiang Rai and visited a flower festival. It was awesome.