Tuesday, 10. December 2002

Topic: - on December 10, 2002 at 2:17:36 AM CET

Thai museum takes visitors on a bad trip through opium history

First reactions to Thailand's giant new opium museum in the Golden Triangle are confused: pleasant surprise at cool air after the intense tropical heat, but then disorientation, shock, even fear. Visitors enter the 40-hectare complex through a long, dark, mist-filled tunnel, which winds into the base of a hill past bas-reliefs of distorted human figures before emerging suddenly into bright sunlight in front of a field of poppies.

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