Remoteness has its rewards; sheer granite walls form a deep gorge framed by dense conifer forests; desolate sandy beaches border the river's edge; and ancient Indian caves provide a cultural respite.
The right bank of the river marks Nicaragua's border with Costa Rica.
It is the water, however, that gives Noroton both its name -- an Indian word assigned to the river along Darien's border with Stamford -- and its identity.
At least 4,000 people were stranded in no man's land between the two countries, with temporary shelters stretching for several hundred meters on a narrow strip between the Naf river and Myanmar's border fence.
Over the past two weeks, eight Grad rockets have landed in Shi'ite Hermel, a sprawling agricultural town of around 100,000 next to the Orontes river on Lebanon's border with Syria and about 45 km (28 miles) north of Baalbek.
Following discussions with the Fifth Air Force, he decided to take No. 77 Squadron out of its air-to-air combat role and curtail its operations in "MiG Alley", the area between the Yalu and Chongchon Rivers on North Korea's border with Manchuria.
The project has been advocated by officials in Yunnan Province, where the river flows beside China's border with Burma.
Achuar and Kichwa indigenous people living in the Pastaza river basin near Peru's border with Ecuador have complained for decades about the pollution, while successive governments have failed to deal with it.
In 1968, with China gripped by the cultural revolution, the communist authorities sent him to a collective farm in Heilongjiang, a remote northern town next to China's river border with Russia.
WHERE -- Thailand WHEN -- Nov. 22 to 29 HOW MUCH -- $2,998 Backroads, (800) 462-2848; www.backroads.com, based in Berkeley, Calif., is offering this eight-day trip starting in Chiang Mai and traveling northeast to the Golden Triangle region, where the Sop Ruak and Mekong Rivers meet at Thailand's border with Laos and Myanmar.
Evros, named for the river that largely marks Greece's border with Turkey, is an eco-traveler's paradise.
