Hey Guys!! My name is Nate Blumenthal and I’m super excited to be joining you all in going on the Mekong trip. I grew up in a town called West Hartford in Connecticut and will be heading off to Middlebury College this February. This summer I......Read More

Hi everyone! My name is Murray Hannon, I’m from Nashville, TN, and I will be attending Sarah Lawrence College next spring. I am super excited to meet all of you! I have done a lot of traveling with my family but nothing quite like this. In my......Read More

Hello friends!!! My name is Ethan and I’m from Chicago. I am eighteen years old and will be attending Colorado College next fall.  I love skiing, sailing, reading, being outdoors, and biking. I’m super excited to meet everybody and......Read More

My name is Chloe and I’m so excited to meet you all! I grew up in San Francisco but I moved to Park City, UT before 6th grade because as a ski racer I needed to live in the snow for training. I’ve been living and interning in Paris for......Read More

Hi!, my name is Annabelle Vletter, I am 17, Dutch and currently live in Amsterdam. However this has not always been the case, I was born in Wassenaar (a small town outside the Hague in the Netherlands) and I lived there till I was 2. Then I moved to......Read More

Hello, My name is Mahler. I’m from Norwich, Vermont and I’ve lived there all my life. I’ve traveled to many places including Mexico, France, St. Lucia and this summer I was in Denmark visiting a friend. I decided to take a gap year......Read More

Hi! My name is Jack Hirsch and I am from San Diego, California. I am eighteen years old, and in those eighteen years have managed never to travel internationally (excluding trips to Mexico, and a short layover in Costa Rica) after I was old enough......Read More

Hello everybody! What follows here is our tentative Mekong Fall 2017 semester itinerary. As you’ll probably notice, a few of the sections here are vague, very vague, and they’ve been left intentionally so. One of the many things that sets......Read More

Hi! My name is Soren. I am from Boulder, Colorado. I just graduated high school this past spring. I decided to take a gap year to explore the world and my interests before heading off to college. I think a gap year will be a great way for me to......Read More

Salutations Dragons, Every semester we receive many questions about malaria prophylaxis, or “antimalarial” drugs as they’re commonly referred to. At Dragons we don’t recommend a particular course of treatment, we leave that up to you to make......Read More

Dear Comrades, As you gear up (literally and figuratively) to head out on our upcoming adventure, we wanted to speak more on a very important aspect of our non-packing list: your smart phone. Dragons as an organization has a blanket policy that......Read More

Mekong Clothing & Equipment Packing List   THINK LIGHT! You will have to put whatever you bring onto the tops of buses and into the backs of trucks, and you may have to carry your bag for long distances. The lighter you pack, the happier......Read More

Welcome everyone to the Mekong program and Sabaidee with palm folded like a lotus shape an official greating from Laos, where in the past it’s called “Lan Xang” Kingdom literally means The Millions of Elephant land. My heart keep......Read More

Hello Mekong Fall Semester Dragons! Welcome to our Yak Board and welcome to the Mekong! It may seem like an age away now, but in just under a month we will all be meeting for the first time in Kunming International Airport to begin our epic journey......Read More

Hello everyone! In just a matter of weeks we will all be in China together–trying new foods and seeing new sights while forming heartfelt bonds with each other and the people and places we encounter on our journey along the Mekong. I’m......Read More

Dear Fall ’17 Mekong Participants, I want to begin by welcoming you to the Fall semester pre-course process from a diverse and far-flung community of educators, guides and cultural ambassadors. Although the Fall is still a few weeks weeks......Read More