The Rice Bowl of Southeast Asia--Mighty Mekong
January 24th 2008 After a short time in Saigon, we decided to move to the Mekong Delta. This area is called the rice bowl of Vietnam, lush green landscape and a wet climate, most of Vietnam's rice is produced here. The Mekong river is huge, starting in Tibet, then snaking its way down to Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and finally Vietnam, each country depositing its share of trash and layers of oil respectively; no, not
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