The boat ride on the
Mae Klong River in central Thailand was billed as a firefly cruise, but there was no sign of the blinking bugs a half-hour into our nighttime ride.
Located in Tambon Khlong Khon, the plantation offers an interesting ecotourism activity at the mouth of the
Mae Klong bay, not far from Bangkok.
Resembling spotted silver blades slicing through river murk, Clown Knifefish originate from Indonesia, plus the great brown-water river systems of Southeast Asia - the Mekong, Chao Phraya and
Mae Klong -snaking through Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand.
The study was conducted in the
Mae Klong watershed which is the most important watershed in western part of Thailand.
It was weighted with rocks and had been dumped in the
Mae Klong River.
The largely fictional plot is based on the building in 1943 of one of the railway bridges over the
Mae Klong in Thailand.
The book explains the difference between Oflag (a prison camp for officers) and Stalag (for enlisted men); that the only film Frank Sinatra ever directed was None but the Brave; and that the famous bridge actually went over the
Mae Klong River, not its tributary the Khwae Noi ("Kwai").
This is
Mae Klong, the Bangkok market that straddles railway lines.
The pictures, taken in January 1945 by the RAF, show the two bridges built by the Japanese - using labour from Tamarkan camp - which spanned the
Mae Klong river (later renamed Kwa Yai).
The link between the security of water supply and the type of rent has been made clear by Barend Terwiel with regard to a village located 5 km south of Ratchaburi that shifted from the baeng ha system to fixed cash rents between 1967 and 1977, and by the contrast demonstrated in the late 1970s by Praipol Koomsup and Boonchuai Sreecomporn between the rainfed area of Phetchaburi province (95 per cent sharecropping) and the adjacent
Mae Klong irrigated area (only 10 per cent).
This pristine sandbar, accessible by boat, is located in the mouth of
Mae Klong River.
The aim of this study was to describe the functional structure of aquatic insect community on upstream of the
Mae Klong watershed in the cold-dry season.
