The Golden Triangle - Mekong River

Mary and Dick at the Thailand border, at the apex of the Triangle. Myanmar is on the left bank of the river and Laos is on the right. The Mekong's headwaters are in the Tibetan Himalayas and it is fed by snow melt. It meanders down to the coast and empties at the sea at the Mekong Delta in Vietnam. It is a huge river, now at its yearly low level during the dry season.

Bangkok and the Golden Triangle to Singapore

March 19th 2005
Last night we got back from our 4-night overland trip through Thailand, traveling from Bangkok on the coast north to the other end of Thailand (old Siam). The border is several hundred miles away in the mountains where Thailand, Laos and Myanmar (Burma) meet in the “Golden Triangle.” This takes its name from the lucrative opium farming and trade that used to go on in the decades before Thail ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more

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