In July 2005, my friend, the photographer Lam Duc Hien, invited me to join him on a trip to China. In a little over a week, we went from the Chinese border with Laos up to Chita, the first village in Tibet when leaving Yunnan. The entire trip was made by car along the Mekong.

Border between Laos and China, Boten, Luang Namtha Province