The Mekong

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Canals are the major thoroughfares through the densely populated Mekong Delta, with boats of all sizes cramming the waterways...
A farmer takes advantage of the flood swollen Mekong outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia to fill his irrigation buckets. The river b...
Fish farming is literally a cottage industry along the Mekong, with some 600 floating houses moored near Chau Doc on the Vin ...
Free enterprise blooms in the Vietnam delta town of Can Tho, where peddlers sell everything from snakes and blue jeans to vii...
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...
The inhospitable gorges carved by the Mekong near Lanping, in northern Yunnan, keep the river unused and unnavigale until its...
man smokes opium
Guided by first light, a fisherman, plies the rock-studded Mekong on the Laos-Thailand border.
The dream of 19th-century French explorers to use the Mekong as a trade route to China was dashed on obstacles like Khone Fal...
Victims of the thousands of land mines buried throughout Cambodia pass the time at the 1/79 Military Hospital in Phnom Penh, ...
Two sisters at play splash in the murky waters of the Mekong as it churns through Phnom Penh, the largest city on the river, ...
house on stilts
house on stilts
Traders meet at the confluence of five canals at Phung Hiep.
A fine-feathered cargo of live ducks heads to market at Can Tho along one of the delta's few hard-top roads.
Crossing these "monkey bridges," as these spindly structures are called, requires the agility of a simian.
At a rice mill in Soc Trang, the heart of Vietnam's "rice basket," women collect bran to sell as animal feed. The factory all...
Deep in Vietnam's U Minh forest, an extensive mangrove swap once withered by defoliants, woodcutters seek trees for the forei...
Cormorant fishermen on Erhai Lake, which forms an important part of the Mekong's watershed, train their birds to retrieve the...
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...
As impervious to the bitter cold as her ice-encrusted yaks, a woman in Qinghai, China milks a dri, a female yak. With a hundr...
The yak is central to the livelihood of the Tibetan herders, providing milk for yak-butter tea, meat, dung for cooking fires,...
The Mekong River outside Zadoi, the northernmost town on the river. The water's graceful bend belies the wild, uncontrollable...
Zadoi, the Gateway to Tibet. despite a climate so brutally harsh that washing becomes a rare event, daily life goes on.
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