Mekong: The Gift of Water

Jacques Cousteau: Rediscover the World | New Zealand, Tahiti, Cuba, & Cape Horn – Season 2

A journey down Southeast Asia's Mekong River. Included: farmers fishing for 600-lb. catfish known as pla beuk; a cave housing 7000 statues of Buddha. Also: the "Golden Triangle," where the borders of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand converge and the source of two-thirds of the world's opium.