It is Golden...

It is soooo.. over rated..

at least I hope so

Standing in one spot 

and yet be in three countries at once...

Sounds great doesn't it...

that was the attraction

that drew me to the golden triangle..

From where I stood,

it just looked like another piece of land...

and unfortunately

the price seemed to high just to land

on an island owned by a country I didn't care much for...

So this time I gave a skip to paying

500 baht a person to be taken to the piece of land

with a market...

and a casino and nothing else...

and no need for a passport...

Maybe next time if I follow a group tour it'd be cheaper

as they actually charge per boat

So instead we made do...

visited the huge golden buddha statue

(what isn't built big in Thailand?)

even the gateway to the entrance was huge

and we made the trip to the opium museum

but think we went to the wrong one 

as the older one I'm told is more interesting

and free entrance...?

oh well, at least we got a postcard

with the entrance fee of 50 Baht,

and for some reason read on a whole lot about 

the tribes in Chiang Rai

(totally unrelated to Opium?!?)

and oddly this was what I found most interesting in the whole exhibition

even more than the plant itself..

(no real surprise there)

and find out that all

opium origin story is somehow

sexually related...?!?

 and got to see some little opium related inventions

but all this did nothing to reduce the pain

of coming all the way and not being able to step on to foreign soil

but at least we could say I've been to the Golden Triangle

and we were soon to find out how much worse it is

to find ourselves on foreign soil