A cruise down the Mekong is a journey through history

The River Sprite, a spritely vessel indeed, plies the Mekong River from Chau Doc in Vietnam all the way to Phnom Penh.

The boat first sails up the Tem River towards the Bassac, the wide southern arm of the Mekong River. At the Bassac River junction, the river widens, becoming nearly an inland sea. Past the Vietnam/Cambodia border at Tonlé, Neak Luong is an important town on the Phnom Penh-Ho Ch Minh City Road, with  a vehicular ferry that crosses the Mekong.

Neak Luong is the gateway to Prey Veng province, an agricultural district starting about 40km east of Phnom Penh. The name Prey Veng means “long forest” in the Khmer language; but today you see few trees, merely a landscape of vast fields of rich lime-green rice paddies.

Finally, the high-rises of Phnom Penh’s skyline become visible. A fascinating trip through time and history is at an end, but marks a new beginning.

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