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Safety tip: if a nation has to sign treaties with more than one of its own cities, don’t vacation there.
If that same nation doesn’t recognize the local government it signed the treaty with, that local government’s army, or that army’s rocket launchers? Never mind the methamphetamine trade. Run away.
We, of course, ran towards.
Ask Google how to get from Myanmar’s capital, Naypyidaw, out to Pangkham, this little town snugged right up against the Chinese border, and it’ll say “nope.” It’s a whole lot easier to go through China first, which for us would be a whole new box of stupid. The alternatives aren’t so much roads as a series of gradually deteriorating water buffalo tracks.
The three of us spend the next day under the ratty canvas hoop tent in the back of a jungle-corroded Japa
