This is the cross-roads of the three-land borders.  The Ruak River bordering Thailand and Myanmar runs into the Mekong River from Laos creating the well known Golden Triangle.  In the old days drug  traffickers secretly met to barter off opium with gold nuggets.  Today it is a bustling tourist destination where visitors come to enjoy the rising sun emerging from the misty seas of fog.  

For an aerial glimpse of the Golden Triangle, you need to climb uphill to Doi Chiang Miang by the Mekong River where Wat Phra That Doi Pu Khao once stood. Only a pile of bricks remains to mark the site, but it provides a look-out point to catch "the big picture" of the Golden Triangle.