While trekking in Tibet, I learned that, not only Bramaputra and Indus, the 2 mythical rivers of South Asia flow from Tibet, but that also the Mekong river, Indochina landmark river, came also from the top of the world!

I decided to do the trip all along from its source to the sea.As the route from Yunnan to Tibet is closed to foreigners by chinese authorities, with some friends, we decided to start at the border of Yunan and Tibet, near Deqin. We hiked to Taizi Monastery built near the glacier of Mingyong, which is one of the main affluent of the Mekong.Then the route follows the river through the rice paddies of Yunan, through empty Laos and its capital Vientiane; through Cambodia, then Vietnam, the end of the route being Cantho, near Saigon (HCMC).

Don t miss on this route the following Highlights: - the old city of Lijiang in Yunan, China, - Luang Prabang, the sleepy capital of the former kingdom of Laos, - the island of Si Phan Don, between Laos and Cambodia, situated on the Mekong FALLS and - Phu Quoc island in Vietnam.