To get away from them, savvy travellers are now heading about 60 miles north up the Nam Ou river from Luang Prabang (boats still provide regular transport) to the misty riverside town of Nong Khiaw.
Stewart Lee, Dylan Moran, Jimmy Carr, Al Murray, Simon Amstell, Jerry Sadowitz, Nina Conti, Rich Hall, Frankie Boyle … Enough giggling already, let's get serious Designed by starchitect Zaha Hadid, The Riverside Museum, which houses Glasgow's transport collection, won European Museum of the Year in 2013.
The cheers rose first from those around the main mansion, fanned by the riverside walk, then the yacht hanger, the transported Roman arch, the private zoo, then the dairy and the hothouses for exotic plants.
Committee chairman Louise Ellman, the Labour MP for Liverpool Riverside, said: "Far less money is spent on transport projects outside London than in the capital.
Protected riverside area can make rivers as a source of water, water transport and water tourism destination.
Lacking air transport, hundreds of South African soldiers were left sweating idly for months in Kindu, the dusty riverside town in eastern Congo which serves as their base.Some have now been deployed to forward bases, and the UN force as a whole has won a tougher mandate, which allows its soldiers to patrol more aggressively.
But Hadid, granted a damehood in the Queen's birthday honours, was overlooked for her Riverside Transport Museum, in Glasgow, with the building failing even to make it on to the list of the 23 best buildings in Scotland for the last year.
Riverside Church Inspirational Choir.
Riverside industry faded.
