Mekong

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Free enterprise blooms in the Vietnam delta town of Can Tho, where peddlers sell everything from snakes and blue jeans to viivd marigolds.
A fine-feathered cargo of live ducks heads to market at Can Tho along one of the delta's few hard-top roads.
Deep in Vietnam's U Minh forest, an extensive mangrove swap once withered by defoliants, woodcutters seek trees for the foreign market.
Fish farming is literally a cottage industry along the Mekong, with some 600 floating houses moored near Chau Doc on the Vin Te canal. Fish live under the house in large cages and are fed twice daily.
The dream of 19th-century French explorers to use the Mekong as a trade route to China was dashed on obstacles like Khone Falls, a six-mile chain of cataracts in southern Laos.
Guided by first light, a fisherman, plies the rock-studded Mekong on the Laos-Thailand border.