We spent only two nights in Chiang Rai, after spending so long in Chiang Mai we were keen to push on a little and we were eager to get into Laos. So, we made the most of our time here and did a day trip out to the Golden Triangle which Ste especially wanted to do and as timing had it, it was on his birthday. The golden Triangle is more an area than a place, and in years gone by majority of the opium trade originated here, but now there are more tourists than there is opium, well, on the Thai side of the triangle anyway. We took a day tour with several stops, the first of which was to the monkey caves. This was in a Buddha temple complex, there were dozens of monkeys
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