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Where forests grow now was a barren landscape of slash and burn opium farmland as far as the eye only twenty years ago.

Despite the relative peace now, local rumours of continued nightly traffic across the mountains remain. Tribesmen and gardners charged with replanting the Northern Thai-Myanmar border remain afraid to go outside at night.
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The Akha tribe´s grandparents often care for their grandchildren while parents work in local factories set up by Thailand´s Royal Family to combat a lack of legitimate alternatives to the opium production industry once rife in the area.

Not one generation before, the Northern tribes had been completely in the grips of the poppy. Old faces bear the scars of this strenous past. by: doitung Views[688]

Welcome to the Golden Triangle!

USA | Wed, 5 Nov 2008 | By traveling_jungs | Views [974]

Tuesday, November 4 8:34 pm Thailand / 6:35 am US (Sorry if this log doesn't make much sense because we're trying to write it while watching a Thai soap opera. We're making up the dialogue - eh, all soap operas have the same plot so we're making ... Read more >

Tags: burma, chiang rai, ganja, golden triangle, laos, opium

Vang Vieng: A 'High'light experience

LAOS | Fri, 2 Feb 2007 | By thedukeoearl | Views [2660] | Comments [2]

About Vang Vieng... Vang Vieng as a town is not for everyone and doses should be personalized. Most of the restaurants in town carry two things: a blaring television and a 'Happy Menu.' Some of the restaurants play nothing but episodes of 'Friends', ... Read more >

Tags: guesthouse, happy menu, laos, maylenn, opium, party time, vang vieng