Abenteuer Mekong

The Mekong is not just a river. It is a home, a trade route, a lifeline, a myth and a source of secrets. It transports people, animals, goods, fates, ideas, dreams, sultriness, sad and curious stories. Sometimes it forces itself untamed through narrow gorges, elsewhere it flows shyly through wide plains or it rebels and becomes a raging waterfall. In its catchment area live 85 million people and it is a refuge for endangered species such as the giant catfish or the Irrawaddy dolphin. The adventure begins in the rugged north of Yunnan on the Tibetan border and leads into the shallow delta of Vietnam. Annett and Mario Weigt travel with noble luxury ships, wrecked soul sellers or on land with the public . They tell of grilled tarantulas, toiling working elephants, riding monks, dancing celestial nymphs, the selt.