Southeast Asian river

Usage examples of mekong.

He had seen them coming before out of the mangrove thickets, out of the half-burned hooches lining the creeks and canals and the Mekong itself.

All movement in the Mekong Delta at large meant boats-usually small sampans powered by ancient FRENCH outboards, which the VC piloted in the darkness through the twisting network of side streams and mud flats.

In this Sino-Tibetan frontier area run the upper reaches of the great rivers of eastern Asia, the Huanghe or Yellow River, the Yangtse, the Salween and the Mekong, which flow along valleys running more or less north-south and reach the sea through China, Burma and Vietnam.

I know that part of Cambodia, that part along the border just above the Mekong Delta.

It showed the Cambodian highlands rising abruptly there, forming a barrier between the Mekong and the Gulf of Siam.

When they left the blue water of the sea and entered the brown water of the Mekong they had sailed into a kind of heavy humid heat Moon had never known.

He was a veteran of Vietnam, at the war's height, in charge of recruiting CIDGs, Civilian Irregular Defense Groups, from the Wa, the Lu, the Lisu, all the mountain tribes of Burma, and from the Mekong Delta-born Cambodians to fight the Viet Cong.

Nowadays I am Howard the Conqueror, stock broker extraordinaire, terror of Derry Municipal Country Club, frequent habitue` of what is known at golf courses all over the world as the Nineteenth Hole, but in '71 I was part of a medical assistance team in the Mekong Delta, a scared kid who sometimes woke up wet-eyed from dreams of the family dog, and all at once I know this feel, this smell.

Not only was this critical freshwater fish reserve dying out, but as the Great Lake silted up, it closed off an exit valve for the lower reaches of the Mekong River.