International Traveller

GOLDEN TRIANGLE, THAILAND

Grass routes Conscious travel | POSTCARDS

Traffic moves slow in the Thai jungle. I'm in a jeep trailing 62-year-old Puang Phet, unflustered as she slowly sways up a road carved into swathes of bamboo. I smile as she playfully knocks down errant branches with her muscular trunk. Here at the illustrious Four Seasons Tented Camp, there's a clear sense of the hard-won peace that was once missing from the top of Thailand. The Golden Triangle, where the mighty Mekong River threads through the borders of Thailand, Myanmar and Laos, was historically

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