VFYW Contest: A Bloody Rose

For contest #262, we head to a beautiful resort in a war-torn territory.

A reader makes a “wild but educated guess”:

Chiang Mai, Thailand? My future wife and I went there eight years ago this Christmas on a fantastic, breakneck, 12-day-or-so sprint through Thailand to Cambodia and back to Thailand, where we stayed with friends who were living in Bangkok. We squeezed in a couple nights in Chiang Mai as our first stop, and one …