Day #156: Chiang Saen old city and River Border
September 5th 2013 Ciang Saen is a small, sleepy town in the far north of Thailand. Its main attraction is that it sits on the Mekong river at the point where the river divides Thailand from Laos, with sweeping views over the river to the Laotian sandbar (locals can cross the border freely, but tourists have to go to Sop Ruak). The river is busy all day with trawlers, ferries and cargo boats and I saw men fishing w
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