Thai temple fights addiction with horses and boxing

Every morning in Thailand's far north, a convoy of orange-robed Buddhist monks and novices riding on horseback leave their mountain-top temple in the kingdom's notorious Golden Triangle region to collect alms.

At first glance these equestrian ascetics look like a throwback to a forgotten era-but they are in fact part of an innovative drive to help young boys in this drug-ravaged region escape addiction through horses, Thai boxing and meditation.

Once famed for its opium and heroin, now the main substance manufactured and trafficked through the Golden Triangle-and the main source of addiction in the area-is methamphetamine.