Up the Mekong to Tibet
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Thai lake
This exciting journey took John
up the world’s twelfth longest river from the South China
Sea to Tibet and beyond. The Mekong has long been associated with
mystery and opium-smuggling, but he hadn’t expected the excitement
and dangers that he would face in its upper reaches. Starting
among the rice paddies of Vietnam, he made his way via Cambodia,
Thailand, Laos and Burma and through the gorges of China’s
Yunnan province, meeting river-people of seven nationalities along
the way. In a climax to the trip, he and two Tibetans reached
the glacier on Mount Guosongmucha, north of Tibet, where the Mekong
rises at over 17,000 feet.
Follow
John’s journey through the regular updates he wrote for this
site during 2003:
1st February – 25th February – 24th March – 9th April – 29th April – 6th July – 1st August – 21st August – 12th September – 1st October
First update – Last update
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