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All along the Mekong, the cities and towns in Cambodia and Vietnam recall an ugly past but focus on a promising future. During a sailing aboard Uniworld's River Orchid, Mark Edward Harris caught a glimpse of that future first hand. Pictured here, a child enjoying a ride at a neighborhood amusement park in Kampong Cham, Cambodia.

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Triumph over tragedy

All along the Mekong, the cities and towns in Cambodia and Vietnam recall an ugly past but focus on a promising future. During a sailing aboard Uniworld's River Orchid, Mark Edward Harris caught a glimpse of that future first hand. Pictured here, a child enjoying a ride at a neighborhood amusement park in Kampong Cham, Cambodia. Photo Credit: Mark Edward Harris

All along the Mekong, the cities and towns in Cambodia and Vietnam recall an ugly past but focus on a promising future. During a sailing aboard Uniworld's River Orchid, Mark Edward Harris caught a glimpse of that future first hand. Pictured here, a child enjoying a ride at a neighborhood amusement park in Kampong Cham, Cambodia.

Massive gilded Buddha statues at the base of the twin holy mountains of Phnom Pros and Phnom Srey (Man Hill and Woman Hill) in Kampong Cham.

Kampong Cham is home to one of the world's longest bamboo bridges.

One of the many wooden statues at the base of the twin holy mountains of Phnom Pros and Phnom Srey (Man Hill and Woman Hill) in Kampong Cham.

The bamboo bridge in Kampong Cham.

Sunset on the Mekong River in Cambodia.

Uniworld's River Orchid near Chhnang, Cambodia.

The Mekong River at sunset in Cambodia.

A floating house on the Tonle Sap River in Cambodia.

Monks head to lunch at Wat Hanchey.

Royal Palace complex in Phnom Penh, built in 1866 to house the kings of Cambodia.

Bou Meng, one of the few survivors of the Khmer Rouge's notorious Security Prison 21 in Phnom Penh, holds a picture of his wife who was executed by the regime. The prison has been converted into the Toul Sleng Genocide Museum.

While sailing to the Cambodia/Vietnam border, Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer Nick Ut presents his images of the Vietnam War onboard Uniworld's River Orchid.

Grain is transported up river in Vietnam past Cai Be's Catholic Cathedral.

A Cham woman in Chau Doc, Vietnam.

A young Cham woman in Chau Doc.

A fisherman casts his net in Chau Doc.

A man washes himself with the waters of the Mekong in Chau Doc.

Boys take turns jumping off a bridge in Chau Doc.

Tiles being loaded onto a cart in a brick factory in Sa Dec, Vietnam.

A docent in a bedroom at the Huynh Thuy Le House, a late19th-century structure in Sa Dec, made famous by its connection to best-selling French novelist Marguerite Duras.