Standard time in Kengtung, Myanmar is half-an-hour behind Thailand but sometimes it feels like the whole country is really half a century behind.
Beyond the northernmost point of the Thai Kingdom lies a different world altogether. At Mae Sai, Myanmar lifts its usual prohibition against overland entry to allow access to an isolated corner of its sprawling, mountainous Shan state.
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