"Golden Triangle" (Golden Triangle) is located in theThailandBurma, Laos, at the junction of the three countries, including northern Burma Shan, Kachin state, Thailand, Chiang Mai Province north of Chiang Rai and Laos Luang Namtha Province, Phongsaly, Oudomxay Province, Western Luang Prabang Province, a total size of more than 3000 villages. "Golden Triangle" area of nearly 200000 square kilometers, height more than 1000 meters, traffic is out-of-the-way, chain of mountains, abundant rainfall, lush trees. Due to historical and environmental factors, the region has not been governments overall control, become more than the illegal armed forces of separatism or zone three. Local residents opium cultivation history of over 100 years, and by the local drug gangs of heroin and other drugs made by a year, "Golden Triangle" trafficking of heroin for 60% to 70% of the world total, so it is with Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan border in the Golden Crescent area, Columbia, Venezuela at the junction of the Silver River Delta and is called the world three drug sources.
Mention "Golden Triangle", many people will think of poppies and heroin, illegal armed shuttle in the jungle, drug trafficking channel crisis...... Since twentieth Century, many of the most prestigious drug runs amuck in the "Golden Triangle", the open and neighboring countries government forces against by the severity of weapon equipped. From the beginning of 2002, the joint efforts of the international community, the local armed forces have banned poppy, large-scale transformation of rice, vegetable, sugarcane, rubber and other crops, but in between Burma and Laos, Laos, the Mekong river segment, new drug traffickers and found shelter, in addition to heroin, methamphetamine, ecstasy and other large the new drug from here to the world everfount.
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4 in the morning I went out, went straight to theShanghaiPudong airport, this time my destination is clear, first to Thailand and then transfer to Bangkok, from Bangkok to the north, 900 kilometers outside of the "Golden Triangle" the Mekong region. This mystery is what appearance, will find some traces and the tragedy of related? I am looking for a local guide, his name is Peng Ga Tara, very familiar with the "Golden Triangle". According to my request, we work together to develop the travel: first to Thailand north of Chiang Rai City, then north to Thailand border town of MAE Sai, the Messerschmitt border checkpoints to enter Burma, arrived at the first stop on my visit one of the "Golden Triangle" -- the big city (Tachilek).
From Chiang Rai city to the Messerschmitt 60 km journey, in front of a police post visitation, smuggling and drugs are the focus of inspection, so both sides of the road are often long queues. Into the Burma border do not need to fill in any form, by the border guards to take pictures, make a summary of the entry-exit pass, while leaving the passport, and back again with the entry-exit pass in exchange for passport. Every day people are hurrying to and fro. Two frontier station Tachilek, because the people of Thailand to open stores in Burma, Burma and Thailand to work, every day to work in transit. The wizard has said with emotion, the city belonged to Thailand, due to lost the battle lost.
This is the territory of Burma, the other is a beautiful templeLike many city and the north, the main means of transportation Tachilek or motorcycle, sell a lot of smoke in the street hawkers, who in addition to cigarette carrying the business license. A middle-aged woman to sell cigarettes, I spent 600 baht to buy two to the wizard, and then met a few young people sneaking, offer much lower, only 100 baht, I bought a. Open the two smoke just know good goods are not cheap, 100 baht is standard cigarettes.
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