Empress Hotel Hochiminh City Ho Chi Minh City

... amp; answer period with the Cruise Director, the Executive Chef & a lady officer that is in charge of ordering the supplies. Apparently all the meat, fish, seafood, dry goods, liquor, etc, all come from the US by container (to major ports, ie. Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney), so everything on board is USDA certified. There are only 3 other countries that HAL will accept their meat/seafood from (only if necessary) & that is Canada, Australia & New ...

... velvet and leather sofas. The heavens opened for an hour and we were caught in the rain as the roads turned into rivers and avoiding becoming road kill became increasingly difficult. <br>When Natalie came home from work she took us on a tour of downtown Saigon. We first went to the very colonial 'Majestic Hotel' where much of the action takes place in the book 'A quiet American' by Graham Greene. We had a few cocktails on the rooftop bar overlooking the Saigon river. Then we ...

... I think it was about 8 quid, but still we think he wanted us to have a positive experience to remember from 'his home town'. <br><br>We did some shopping and then watched the sun go down at bar on the 28th floor of the Sheraton. We had to move away from the edge when the thunder storm started shortly after.<br><br>The following day we went on a trip to the Cu Chi tunnels. Cu Chi was one of the most bombed/attacked areas during the US war, the locals and VC used ...

... original tunnels would allow. Very glad I didn&#8217;t have to experience that. My later experience of the Moc Bai tunnels further up Vietnam a week later turned out to be a much more pleasant and cool experience. However the highlight of that particular experience was the decision to shoot an AK-47. I was in two minds as to whether to try it or not as I&#8217;m not a fan of guns to say the least and being in Vietnam and experiencing a county that has so recently been ...

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... but I will update again when we get to Bangkok and begin our last push through South East Asia and I get on my boat to Australia.<br><br>p.s So in my last update from China I cant believe that I forgot to include the part where I was at Shanghai station waiting for my train and noticed a kid taking a dump on the station floor and then his mom cleaning it up afterwards like you would a dog...not just once, twice! Anyway sorry I had to include it in this one.

... during the war were deplorable to say the least and the effect on the country - children being born with defects due to the effect of agent orange and many more - have been quite crippling and have left an ostensibly bitter taste in the mouth of most Vietnamese people.<br>However, the country and it's people have bounced back tremendously and both are now seriously thriving!<br>The ...

... I wondered why we got 2 boarding passes :)<br>Eventually back on the plane and fly to HCMC. All pretty painless! <br>*********************************** *************************************** *************************************<b r>We get a taxi to the DE THAM district and get him to drop us off where the coach did on our arrival the other day hotel we picked out of the book the LAN AHN - they had a room so was please ab out that ...