Tag: Golden Triangle
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Make Your Destination Before Nightfall
The Golden Triangle Chronicles “Make your destination before nightfall” are wise words to keep in mind when traveling through the Golden Triangle. The mountain backroads are dangerous enough in daytime with their hairpin turns around precipices that fall away to certain death. Add to that an inky darkness where street lights don’t exist. A darkness…
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Profiles in Opium: Vang Pao & The Tragedy of the Hmong
This post is a chapter from a much larger manuscript about the Golden Triangle which I’m currently writing and should be published later this year. In war, there are winners and losers. While the Vietnam Wars were fought by France and the United States from 1947-1973, another war-a secret war-was fought in the mountains of…
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Portrait of a Golden Triangle Opium Farmer
An Overview The opium poppy, papaver somnifera, has been grown for centuries in the endless hills and mountains of the Golden Triangle-a region that stretches from northern Thailand, up through Shan State in Burma, Laos, to its northern end in Yunnan Province, China. Today, the Golden Triangle and its poppy crop still produce the finest…