Jade City

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... it would take about an hour and a half. Well we could not maintain 50 miles per hour, and we arrived two hours later at a jade store. Actually it was two jade stores, one on each side of the narrow highway with no shoulders. It was our first stop on our ...

... to the Jade Museum (they weren't there in the end). The Jade Museum was pretty impressive with a huge collection of pre-Columbian Jade carvings. There was alot of info on the daily lives of the people back then and what their function in society was. ...

... Ho Chi Minh City. The guy from my hotel took me around to the three pagodas I wanted to see.  We started with the Jade Emperor Pagoda.  This was a Chinese temple, the air was thick with incense.  It was the first time my guide had been ...

... From the War Remnant's Museum the two boarded a motorbike taxi. 3 on the motorbike!!! Destination: cross town to the Jade Emperor Pagoda. Within the V Man lit incense sticks and engaged in wishful thinking before the Buddha image. After you light the ...

... , also known as the "War Crimes Museum" among other names.  This was our first full day without rain in Vietnam. The Jade Pagoda had ponds with huge turtles and even bigger koi and most of the people there were lighting incense and praying.  The ...

... and toast - and is tasty.  Maybe the green bits are frog - Today Diana Michelle and Indiandy walked the city centre - red carpers at the Reunification Palace with memorable images of 1950-1970's news events; potent incense, offertory ovens, green ...

... a bridge under construction that will cross the Saigon River and allow the people an easier way to cross the river. Currently the city residents use a local ferry. From our ship it dominated the skyline from the port back into the city.  Once on the ...

... the Anthropology Museum. Let me tell you about the Anthropology Museum. Firstly it is in the Chapultepec forest section of Mexico City. Chapultepec means cricket sitting on a rock, which I think is pretty cute. The building is a bit of a masterpeice ...

... us to it's archaeological place where we were introduced to some gems are to find here in Mexico from Rose quartz, Turquoise, Jade, Obsidian to Malachite just some to mentioned and those are used in handcraft for creating masks, typically for the Aztec or ...

... booked our onward flight to Tikal a few days hence. Leaving the airport, we caught a taxi to Antigua, a picturesque colonial city about an hour's drive from the grim sprawl of Guatemala City. The streets were cobbled, the houses were painted in varying ...

... are wondering, King is single! We visited the War Museum, the Reunification Palace, the Post Office, the Cathedral and the Emperor Jade Pagoda. My favourite part of the day was when King ordered lunch for us. We had a Lotus Rhizone Salad with shrimp and ...

... large windows behind it. While we were there it was being used for wedding photos. The museum contained information about the city, about the war, including some displays of ways and means of smuggling weapons into the city. There were also displays of ...

... boring, and two, I needed an hour or so to reflect on and recover from what I had just seen. We then went to the Emperor of Jade temple which was small. Its only real point of interest is that it is made of clay, and not brick like normal. I was more ...

... nice evening. Next day we decided to have a nice time, no war museum, and went to one of Saigons Pagoda, the Jade Emperor Pagoda. It was a strange place as there was a big pool, absolutely stuffed with turtles. Apparently these come from restaurants ...

... Emperor Pagoda. Go to the The War Remnants Museum shows the Vietnam War through Vietnamese eyes. Don't miss the impressive Jade Emperor Pagoda. Saigon Notre-Dame-Basilica famous with French architecture, was built when French. Ben Thanh market is the best ...

... is like a rotten banana.  The taste?  I can't even really describe it.  Later we took a cab to the Jade Emperor Pagoda.  It was very colorful inside and out with many statues and wooden carvings along the wall.  It was interesting ...

... onto our bus to Saigon - which took 6 hours!! Saigon was worth every bit of the journey from hell - it is a great city. I'd read and seen The Quiet American before I left the UK and was so excited about the European elegance and faded glamour of old ...