The Source of the Great Mekong (listen)

At Mekong's Source in China, Past and Present Collide

(NPR) Feb. 15, 2010 - It's a long way to the source of the Mekong: a three-day journey by boat... My guide declares that we are at the "real" source of the Mekong, in Tibet.

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• Memories of Apollo 11 ( The Mekong at the other end)

We watched the lunar landing from the midst of the hot and steamy rice paddies of the Mekong Delta in one of the garden spots of Southeast Asia.