| | Jinghong Xishuangbanna Visit To Botanical Gardens |
 | | On the banks of the Mekong River in Jinghong, Lancang Jiang in Chinese, grow dense and primeval forests in which we were told tigers stalked their prey. |
 | | The water of the Mekong River at Jinghong was as silt laden as that of the Yangtze, but at this point, less of a raging torrent as the river continued its long journey from Jinghong to Vietnam. |
 | | Zhong and I walked half way across this bridge and he reminded me of another suspension bridge we crossed in Longzhou, which scared the living daylight out of me as it swayed at every step, yet local people were riding over it on bicycles. |
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