Laos is Southeast Asia’s only landlocked country, yet, paradoxically, life revolves around water. Running the length of the mainly mountainous country is the mighty Mekong River, which floods ...

Up and down the Mekong – known locally as ‘the river of life’ – Gordon explores the ... who focuses on celebrating Laos’ culinary heritage at one of the top-rated restaurants in the ...

Life moves slower in Laos, but the pace is quickening and the 'land of a million elephants' is increasingly in the clutches ...

CHIANG RAI, Thailand - Bean sprout farmer Orapin Waotikon describes life ... The Mekong, South-east Asia’s main artery, winds 4,900km through China, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.

Take a boat from Vientiane, capital of Laos, and gently drift down through Cambodia and ... But as it turned out, the mighty Mekong river had other ideas. Thankfully, when it transpired that ...

The WWF rattan project has brought positive results to the community of Sopphouan in central Laos. Sopphouan is small village of ... More than 90 percent of rattan processed in the Greater Mekong ...