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Golden Triangle Photographs

Some Golden Triangle Photographs from Chiang Rai, Chiang Mai, Sob Ruak, Mae Sai, Thailand taken on our Northen Laos and the Golden Triangle Tour

A selection of Wi’s Golden Triangle photographs from her recent tour – the first part of our Northern Laos and the Golden Triangle tour from Chiang Mai to Vientiane via the UNESCO sites of Luang Prabang and the Plain of Jars.

Stag beetle store
Stag beetle store

On departing from Chiang Mai and heading north, the group’s first stop was the local hill-tribe market near Mae Krachan. Apparently it’s stag beetle season, (we never knew there was one!?), and the overgrown insects are much sought after for beetle fighting bouts and where, not surprisingly, large sums of money often change hands for the most promising looking contenders.

Fruit wines
Fruit wines

The northern Thai hill-tribe peoples have become pretty adept at making fruit wines from the more temperate fruits – plums, cherries, strawberries etc – that grow in the higher altitudes since their more traditional, though more illicit, products have been prohibited!

Black Lahu hill-tribe woman
Black Lahu hill-tribe woman

And a couple of views on the way from Chiang Rai to the Burmese border at Mae Sai.

Golden Triangle Photographs. Emerald green paddyfields
Emerald green paddyfields
Traditional fishing methods
Traditional fishing methods

Below is a view of the ‘Burmese Market’ at Mae Sai – still on the Thai side of the border.

Golden Triangle Photographs. Mae Sai
Mae Sai

It is possible to cross over the border on a temporary pass but for now, it’s not really practical to go much further than the towns of Tachileik and Kengtung on the Burmese side.

Thai/Burmese border crossing point
Thai/Burmese border crossing point

From Mae Sai we follow the banks of the Mekong past the town of Sob Ruak where Thailand, Laos and Burma meet, the historic town of Chiang Saen to our destination the small riverside town of Chiang Khong.

Mekong with Laos in the background
Mekong with Laos in the background

And we’ll finish with a couple of pretty sunrises Wi took at Chiang Khong….

Golden Triangle Photographs. Sunrise at Chiang khong
Sunrise at Chiang Khong
Golden Triangle Photographs
Sunrise 2

…..cheers and thanks to Wi for her excellent selection of Golden Triangle photographs.