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Laos Water Buffalo, Southeast Asia, 1968

A herd of water buffalo charges down a dirt road in rural Laos. In Laos, one of the poorest countries in Southeast Asia, domesticated water buffalo are used for their meat, hides, and milk, and also for plowing and transportation.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Mekong: River of Terror and Hope," December 1968, National Geographic magazine)

Photograph by Wilbur E. Garrett

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