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do you go to three countries in 60
minutes? On a super-motorised sampan
that's a gondola on speed, helmed by a
boatman who doesn't blink when the wind
whizzes into his face at 30 miles per
hour. Travelling along the borders of
the Golden Triangle, once the famous
poppy-growing seed of the opium trade
and now the infamous underground
interstate of Southeast Asian drug
trafficking, we touched Thai, Burmese
and Laotian soil in 60 minutes. Before
we set off, our boatman readied our
sampan as the Mekong River unfurls in
the distance.
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