Mekong Delta It's something out of the realms of the imagination, familiar, eerily, from tv. Rice paddies, water buffalo, churning green rivers, and silent streams, lush streams, green coconut stalks spurting from the water. Life continued beyond the screen of greenery, a natural wall to the homes backing onto the water, all that was missing for us was the alligator launching itself after us, after the delectable taste of tourists. It seems to be tourists now that funds life around the shallower delta streams...boatloads churning through the Mekong in rippling waves, their pale skin and paltry muscles making liars of the cone hats on their heads...symbols of the strong arms that paddle the boat, of the fingers that till the plow, that pull the country into a bright future! The Mekong is what makes the
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