Mekong River in Viet Nam

Xin Chao! We are again in Viet Nam and on the river, where hundreds of cranes are dropping their buckets into the river and dredging up sand, which is then dropped on to barges. The sand is going to Singapore for an expansion of their port area. The tour this afternoon is to the tunnels where the North Vietnamese soldiers hid before taking Saigon.

As we cruise, the river becomes more industrialized. Factories belching smoke into the air, and polluting the river with the by-products of the factory. The locals still fish in the river and one wonders what will be the long term effects of these factors.