Showing posts with label mekong delta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mekong delta. Show all posts
Friday, April 22, 2011
And we're rolling, rolling
if you come down to the river
i bet you gonna find some people who live
you don't have to worry if you got no money
people on the river are happy to give
~ tina turner
The second day of our trip found us on a boat cruise down the Mekong Delta. I would venture to say that the Mekong Delta is the very heart of Vietnam. The region produces 50% of Vietnams rice crops every year and hundreds of fruits and vegetables are grown here and exported all over the country (and the world!). The Mekong River starts in Tibet and flows through China, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and finally empties out to the South China Sea. Dams constructed upstream in Thailand and China threaten to cut off the supply of water to the region (not to mention nearly all of Cambodia), and many of the countries have formed joint commissions to take charge of the rivers resources.
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