Vietnam's Mekong Delta is a vibrant, lush landscape of increasingly modern cities amid sprawling rice fields and jungle. The Mekong River and its branches shape life in the region. People live, shop, sell and eat from and in their vessels and homes on the water.
Here, the sun rises on the Hau River. Like much of the rest of Vietnam, the day here begins at the crack of dawn when the weather is still cool.
We had to drive 6 hours downstream today and walk over a gravel path to get to the river cruise ship that was moored on the side of a farmer's hut. It was supposed to be docked a few miles from Siem Reap, Cambodia but because the Chinese built a hydro-power dam upstream on the Mekong and the drier than normal year, the... central lake and the rivers are very low. Consequently farmers are not able to grow their rice or even get to the river for water -- not to mention that they are also facing encroachment of salt water.
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