This is near Umpahng in north western Thailand near the Burmese border. This is an area known for opium growers, Communist insurgents and escaping Karen hill tribe refugees from Myanmar/Burma. It was as peaceful as it looks when we visited, but only two weeks before we arrived, we read in Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, that a Thai military officer was beheaded by grenade tossed into his jeep in the area.

That was 1995.