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Take a boat from Vientiane, capital of Laos, and gently drift down through Cambodia and Vietnam, soaking up south-east Asia’s glorious atmosphere, admiring the culture, meeting the people and savouring the food: a romantic travel idea if ever there was one. But as it turned out, the mighty Mekong river had other ideas.
Thankfully, when it transpired that low water levels in Laos had made a trip in any boat larger than a rice barge virtually impossible, the tour operator organising my trip, Scott Dunn, was…