Top 10 Mekong experiences

Travel is not just about visiting, it's about experience. You need to get beneath the skin of the region and this can take many shapes and forms. It could be a culinary adventure. It could be a walk on the wild side. It could be a cultural encounter. It could be spiritual enlightenment. At some stage during your journey, the Mekong will enter your sould. Embrace it.

1. Count the number of locals crammed on to one motorbike
2. Get the measure of a tailor, the only time you want to be stitched up in the region
3. Haggle with a cyclo driver about the price before you enjoy the ride
4. Learn to cross the road like a local in a busy city
5. Meet the minorities, a multicoloured mosaic of mountain people
6. Play bottoms up with the locals in a back street bar
7. See sunrise over the South China sea from a beautiful beach
8. Slurp a steaming bowl of noodle soup at a street stall
9. Take some time out in a tempel, the spiritual sanctuary for local people
10. Turn down the volume and drift along the Mekong River by boat