Cambodia up close: Cruise on the Mekong

The Aqua Mekong features 20 outward-facing cabins, each with floor-to-ceiling glass walls that reveal every second of the scenery passed.

“Life is not staying still,” Vuthy spoke softly to me, like a kind older brother. “It is moving from one place to the next.”

I followed his rhythmic breathing – in, out – inhaling the lotus air and untangling my own breath from the outside breeze, flowing in through the open temple doors.