Temple-tramping in Chiang Mai and historical sites in Sukhothai are the major cultural attractions of Northern Thailand, the birthplace of Thai civilization. When invaders pushed a Thai prince from Chiang Saen and the Golden Triangle in 1015, he moved his court to Kampangphet, a city that coalesced into the Thai Sukothai kingdom battling Ankor kings for control of the Thai plains, and then a key plank in Thai defence against Burmese invasion. More information about Kampangphet, a city most Western tourists never get to see, at .
Many people also visit the Golden Triangle of opium fame, and while the drug is no longer grown there, you can still check out the hill tribes and day-trip over to Myanmar and Laos without a visa.
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