Mekong

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A single umbrella protects a fashionable young couple during rainy season in Jinghong. Yunnan, China
Yak Herders drive their animals through treacherous narrow mountain passes on the outskirts of Zadoi, Qinghai, China.
Balancing buckets of fertilizer, a woman works in the rice paddies of Xishuangbanna, home of the Dai tribe. Yunnan, China.
The village of Xizhou in China's Yunnan province, with its distinctive Bai-style houses build around a central courtyard, ove...
Her wares on her back, a vendor - of the Bai tribe - takes her vegetables to Zhouchang Market on the shores of Erhai Lake. Zh...
With the closest bridge 25 miles away, villagers of the Lisu tribe still use this ancient and precarious form of river crossi...
The inhospitable gorges carved by the Mekong near Lanping, in northern Yunnan, keep the river unused and unnavigale until its...
The Mekong River outside Zadoi, the northernmost town on the river. The water's graceful bend belies the wild, uncontrollable...
A Chinese farmer returning home from the market crosses a narrow rope suspension bridge strung across a ravine. The Mekong Ri...
Dawn in Qinghai reveals the Tibetan Plateau's dramatically beautiful skyline. Beyond these mountains of the towering Tibetan...
A Tibetan family at an encampment near the sacred source of the Mekong. A yak-skin tent houses Meiga, a guide, Daji, his wife...
Barrage nets strung across the Tonle Sap Lake, the great regulator of the Mekon's waters, trap a bounty of up to 50 tons of f...
Cormorant fishermen on Erhai Lake, which forms an important part of the Mekong's watershed, train their birds to retrieve the...
The place the Tibetans call the sacred source of the Mekong is a frozen river bed at an altitude of 17,000 feet on the Tibeta...
Traders meet at the confluence of five canals at Phung Hiep.