Along the Mekong in Luang Prabang - #MekongDiary

After five years, we returned to Luang Prabang as part of our program engagement and film screening work. on the 10th of December, we journeyed upstream from Pak Ou Cave up the Mekong. 

From where we board the boat, once could see from distance the sign of construction going on. Where Ou meets Mekong, the colour of the water change from the direction of Ou River. The Chinese calls Ou River, the Gem River of Asia because of its deep blue river bedding. 








We bring "Face of the Mekong" to screen.

We take the journey upstream along the Mekong in Luang Prabang to see how our Mighty Mekong has been taken care of.

We came across the scene...

We are unsure the next time we travel up the Mekong by boat, it is possible to navigate through.

We have questions - who could answer?

#AlongtheMekongwithSai




Maybe the CEO of the Mekong River Commission is right - that they don't make decision based on feeling. because for us working on the Mekong Water Governance Program, our feeling are broken into pieces whenever we see the river in the process of large scale hydropower dam construction, when the river bank slowly filled up, block the change, create the coffer dam and migratory fish unable to swim up to spawning grounds. We are human beings with feeling and not necessary engineering infrastructure gig.... From the #MekongDairy

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