It is a fitting environment to start a river journey. The Mekong is the world’s 12th largest river rising from its headwaters in the Tibetan Plateau and flowing almost 5000 kilometres through ...

Contributor Ali Webb takes a journey on the Mekong River from Saigon to Siem Reap in southeast Asia. In the heart of Southeast Asia, the winding Mekong River carries more than just water.

Journey along the Mekong River through southern Laos, from the region's highest point on the Bolaven Plateau down to its lowest, the idyllic 4,000 Islands. Discover ancient Buddhist temples, rice ...

The Mekong River, one of the world's longest waterways, has a long and turbulent history. It begins its 3,000-mile journey high on the Tibetan plateau of China's Qinghai province, where its once ...

A slow journey through the waterways and islands of southern Vietnam. In the southern reaches of Vietnam, life has revolved around the water for hundreds of years.

Things have certainly changed in Ho Chi Minh City. But so have I – last time I was here, well over a decade ago, I traveled by local bus and cyclo, my heart in my mouth as vehicles and ...

A journey down the Nam Ou by The Washington Post traced the hardships and broken promises for the Mekong river system as more dams go up — about half of them built by Chinese companies. In Laos ...

The Journey Begins: China's Yunnan Province marks the beginning of the journey of the Mekong River, the waters that flow through the heart of Southeast Asia. (S1, ... Thailand - The River Basin: ...

By Nicholas Borroz The Last Days of the Mighty Mekong, by Brian Eyler, director of the Southeast Asia program at the Stimson Center, takes the reader on a journey from glaciers in China to rice ...

The Mekong river – one of the world’s longest – provides food, water and livelihoods to some 60 million people in six countries. For much of its journey, it slides through tropical climates ...