Mekong

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Guided by first light, a fisherman, plies the rock-studded Mekong on the Laos-Thailand border.
Free enterprise blooms in the Vietnam delta town of Can Tho, where peddlers sell everything from snakes and blue jeans to vii...
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 forei...
Fish farming is literally a cottage industry along the Mekong, with some 600 floating houses moored near Chau Doc on the Vin ...
The dream of 19th-century French explorers to use the Mekong as a trade route to China was dashed on obstacles like Khone Fal...
In the dawn haze, two women go to market in Camau, southern Vietnam.
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...
A merchant selling live birds takes advantage of captive customers in their idling cars waiting for one of the many ferries t...
Fisherman bring in their haul with dip nets in the Plain of Reeds, once a Viet Cong stronghold and now a new frontier for set...
Canals are the major thoroughfares through the densely populated Mekong Delta, with boats of all sizes cramming the waterways...
Defoliation during the war turned this mangrove forest at the mouth of the Mekong into a mud flat. At low tide, residents ski...
A shed at the edge of Kampong Cham's "killing field" holds hundreds of skulls heaped on the floor, a grim reminder of the tho...
Two sisters at play splash in the murky waters of the Mekong as it churns through Phnom Penh, the largest city on the river, ...
A young mine victim at the 1/79 Hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The hospital is the largest facility in the country devoted...
Victims of the thousands of land mines buried throughout Cambodia pass the time at the 1/79 Military Hospital in Phnom Penh, ...
The first car of Cambodia's only operating train is said to be the cheapest seat in the country. Travel is free for passenger...
With tentative new optimism in Cambodia, Buddhism is experiencing a resurgence. This factory is busy producing colorful Buddh...
Oarsmen compete in pirogue races during the Festival of the Turning of the Waters. The festival celebrates the reversal of th...
Phnom Penh on Sundays teems with what seems like its entire population mingling in the crush of wheels. Cambodia.
As Cambodia's economy struggles to revive itself, inflation is rampant. This sign painter made 850,000 riel ($1,000) for inst...
Life has returned to this war-weary city, once emptied by Pol Pot, and a new generation decks itself in Sunday best for a mop...
Cambodian flags, with the image of Angkor Wat emblazoned on them, are raised in tribute to mark the return of Prince Sihanouk.
A poster artist puts the finishing touches on a likeness of Prince Sihanouk, celebrating his return in 1992 from a thirteen-y...
Reviving centuires-old traditions all but lost in the Khmer Rouge's campaign of terror, the school of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh...
The dancing Apsara, the mythological entertainers of the Hindu gods, are one of the principal motifs in Khmer temple carvings...
From Angkor, the former capital of the great kingdom that ruled the entire Mekong river basin between the ninth and the thirt...
Workers, reclaiming the great temple from the ravages of time and war, scour the front facade of Angkor Wat, as part of a Uni...
One of the gargantuan faces on the towers of the Banyon casts an enigmatic gaze over the walls of the city. Angkor Thom, Camb...
Each January, families from up to 100 miles away travel to the banks of the Tonle Sap, north of Phnom Penh, during the prahak...
A farmer takes advantage of the flood swollen Mekong outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia to fill his irrigation buckets. The river b...
house on stilts
house on stilts
Clouds form an omnious canopy during the rainy season at Stung Treng, Cambodia.
Barrage-net fishermen pull a 300-pound carp from the Tonle Sap, north of Phnom Penh. The lake, Cambodia's richest fishing spo...
A woman practices the ancient art of dip-net fishing in the shallow water along the banks on Vientiane, Laos' sleepy capital ...
Elephants like Toum, this 50-year-old female, outnumber cranes and bulldozers in Laotian logging operations along the Mekong....
A former teak forest is reduced to skeletal branches piercing the surface of Nam Ngum Lake, Laos, formed by the daming of a M...
A monk sweeps the courtyard of Wat Xieng Thong as part of his morning ritual of chores in Luang Prabang, the old royal capita...
The Mekong during the dry season is so shallow at Vientiane that people can practically wade across its entire width into Tha...
Young monks share a communal breakfast at Wat Xieng Thong, after their daily ritual of binthabat, or rice collecting, through...
man smokes opium
Disco dancing is the amusement of choice among the youth of Chiang Saen in Thailand's Golden Triangle, where the Mekong forms...
Their world rapidly changing around them, a displaced Hmong hill tribe family poses in traditional dress against a backdrop o...
Farmers moonlight during the dry season prospecting for gold along the banks of the Mekong. Most of the panners are women and...
Mountains resembling a Sung dynasty watercolor loom above the Mekong as it flows through Pak Ou, Laos.
Boys paddle their dugout canoe through a polluted pocket of the generally clean Mekong in the village of Mengham. Yunnan, China.
A diver silhouetted against the sky plunges into Erhai Lake, a popular tourist spot. Yunnan, China.
Once the rice crop is planted, the Bai tribe celebrates the Rao Shao Lin festival in Qindong Village in Dali. Bai women pray...
The 100-year-old wooden Double Crane Bridge crosses a tributary of the Mekong at Daltien. Yunnan, China.