The Mekong

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Yak Herders drive their animals through treacherous narrow mountain passes on the outskirts of Zadoi, Qinghai, China.
With the closest bridge 25 miles away, villagers of the Lisu tribe still use this ancient and precarious form of river crossi...
Her wares on her back, a vendor - of the Bai tribe - takes her vegetables to Zhouchang Market on the shores of Erhai Lake. Zh...
The village of Xizhou in China's Yunnan province, with its distinctive Bai-style houses build around a central courtyard, ove...
Bai woman working in rice paddies, Xizhou. Yunnan, China
A single umbrella protects a fashionable young couple during rainy season in Jinghong. Yunnan, China
Balancing buckets of fertilizer, a woman works in the rice paddies of Xishuangbanna, home of the Dai tribe. Yunnan, China.
The 100-year-old wooden Double Crane Bridge crosses a tributary of the Mekong at Daltien. 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...
A diver silhouetted against the sky plunges into Erhai Lake, a popular tourist spot. Yunnan, China.
Boys paddle their dugout canoe through a polluted pocket of the generally clean Mekong in the village of Mengham. Yunnan, China.
Farmers moonlight during the dry season prospecting for gold along the banks of the Mekong. Most of the panners are women and...
Their world rapidly changing around them, a displaced Hmong hill tribe family poses in traditional dress against a backdrop o...
To the accompaniment of horns and drums, amateur kickboxers go at it with feet, fists and elbows flying. Kickboxing is the ma...
To the accompaniment of horns and drums, amateur kickboxers go at it with feet, fists and elbows flying. Kickboxing is the ma...
Disco dancing is the amusement of choice among the youth of Chiang Saen in Thailand's Golden Triangle, where the Mekong forms...
A monk sweeps the courtyard of Wat Xieng Thong as part of his morning ritual of chores in Luang Prabang, the old royal capita...
Young monks share a communal breakfast at Wat Xieng Thong, after their daily ritual of binthabat, or rice collecting, through...
The Mekong during the dry season is so shallow at Vientiane that people can practically wade across its entire width into Tha...
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...
Two fisherman confront the raging cataracts of Khone Falls, gingerly tossing their nets to catch fish as they jump through th...
The Khong Falls of the Mekong River at the Cambodia/Laos border thwarted the efforts of early explorers in search of an inlan...
Mountains resembling a Sung dynasty watercolor loom above the Mekong as it flows through Pak Ou, Laos.
A woman practices the ancient art of dip-net fishing in the shallow water along the banks on Vientiane, Laos' sleepy capital ...
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