Mae Moei

This river forms the border between Myanmar and Thailand. It's tiny, and people go across on tubes in full view of border guards.


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Blog: Rebels, Smugglers, Gangsters and... Backpackers?
Date: December 16th 2006

Which of these things does not belong? Mae Sot is a strange place. It seems like an ordinary, run-of-the-mill, forgotten town, with a couple of dozen streets woven together haphazardly just a few km east of the Burma border. There are a couple of Buddhist temples, a main street lined with mundane shops, and a busy market heaped with vegetables, fruit, fly-buzzed meat, and fishy fish. One i ... read more







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