MALAY PENINSULA

MALAY PENINSULA:  This distinctive tail of land is an illusion of modern sea levels. The Malay Peninsula and mainland Southeast Asia, as well as nearby Island of Indonesia, are one landmass. The submerged part of this land-its continental shelf-is the Sunda shelf was above sea level at the height of the last ice Age 21.000 years ago, The river of the Indochina Peninsula extended far beyond their current deltas. Along the shelf’s South and west, the oceanic edges of the Australian and the Indian plates dive under the Eurasian plate, creating the java Trench and the Mentawei Ridge. This action gave birth to the Andaman Sea, where new ocean floor is spreading along the fault line. Along the Java Trench, an earthquake off the northwest corner of Sumatra produced the devastating 2004 Indian ocean tsunami.         

CAMBODIA

CAMBODIA: The liquid heart of Cambodia, Tonle Sap expands to four times its size during the rainy season. Flooding begins when the great lake’s main outlet, the Tonle Sap River, reverses its course to flow north into the lake, carrying water from the swollen Mekong. The lake and its floodplain are vital to the country’s rice farming and fishing. As a seasonal wetland for migrating birds and other wildlife, it is recognized as a UNESCO biosphere reserve. Actually June month heavy raining time make the flooding in this area. This is the largest fresh lake in Southeast area. This is a combined lake and River system in Cambodia, Tonle Sap Lake or River has been popular in all over the world, this lake can be recognized Cambodia is a one country in the world.

VIETNAM

 This is the Mekong River in the Vietnam. It is a dangerous River in rainy season and Monsoon season. Because for flooding.

Vietnam: Nine Dragons, or Cuu long, is the traditional name of the Mekong in Vietnam, where the river splits into multiple streams to end its 2,600 mile run from china in the maze of the Mekong Delta. North of the Annam cordillera-the country’s forested backbone that reaches to more then 8,500 feet-the red river delta fans beyond Hanoi. Tracing an active fault line, the red river follows a straight course for most of its journey. The Red river Delta (also known as the Song Hong) this is the flat and triangular region of 1500 square kilometer, This river is very important for exporting rice after years of shortages, and permanent cultivation covers the large area of the country’s lowland smaller portions of highland in the Vietnam.

Laos: Khone falls-six miles of cataracts on the Mekong River in southern Laos-kept the longest river in Southeast Asia, (7th longest in the Asia, and world of the 12th no. of the longest river. Its length is almost 2700 miles or 4350 km) from becoming a trade route to China. With fewer then seven million people, the region’s smallest population, Laos faces pressure to dam its stretch of the Mekong to export hydropower. The river is now dammed only in China. Northeast of Khone falls, the fertile Bolovens plateau is an isolated extrusion of basaltic lava. As a link on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, much of which ran through Laos, the plateau was heavily bombed during the Vietnam War.   

Myanmar (Burma): The Irrawaddy river basin dominates otherwise mountainous Myanmar, renamed in 1989 by the governing militaey regame. Sweeping along the Bay of Bangal, the low-laying Arakan yoma range, reemerges to the south as India's Andaman and Nicobar island. This costal range, as well as the undersea ridge on which the island lie, is formed from sediments scraped off the oceanic part of the Indian plate as it dives under eurasia.
Thailand: Fron the rain-fed tributaries in Thailand's northern mountains, the Chao Phraya river spreads sediments to create a fertile central plain. In the east, tectonic uplift pushed the khorat plateau as high as 3,000 feeton its southwest corner, though the average elevation of this thin-solied upland in only 600 feet. Teak and other valuable hardwoods once covered half of Thailand, which outlawed logging in 1989 to preserve its remaining forest cover-now, on a rebound, at 30 percent. 

This is the Southeast Asian Monsoon season Map, when these area have to be very difficult. Monsoon season time southeast Asia maximum area's has been sky fully clouded.

SOUTHEAST ASIA MONSOON LATITUDES: The Indochina peninsula seems to pour from the eastern bend of the Himalaya. The peninsula’s sinuous ranges, divided by epic rivers like the Mekong and Irrawaddy, owe their north-south orientation to India’s tectonic collision with Eurasia, which began to raise Himalaya and the plateau of Tibet50 million years ago. Some 180 million years earlier, the blocks of land that make up Southeast Asia had also crashed into the continent from the south. When these pieces first docked with Eurasia and each other, they created mountains that lay more parallel to the continent. India’s arrival slowly wrenched the peninsula clockwise and rejuvenated the ranges. The rise of the Tibetan plateau set up monsoon patterns that now drenches Southeast Asia from may through October with virtually all its annual rain.