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Monday, March 26, 2012
DID I PUT THESE IN ALREADY???
About Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur, interesting, good architecture. Made me aware of my ignorance and arrogance. ONE OF THE VALUES OF TRAVEL
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| So I started by taming a dragon |
Hoi An Gided Tour
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| The marble for these magnificent sculptures comes from the mountain near by. The sculptures were made in the workshops here. |
We went to a silk- making facility. Here are the silk worms - the start of it all.
BOB'S OBSERVATIONS
SAIGON
“Scooter’s City”: in Saigon, Vietnam (a.k.a. Ho Chi Minh City) the motor scooter reigns supreme* and the pedestrian is an endangered species. There are no chickens left in Saigon, having attempted to cross the road, their genre has been decimated.
The hordes of two-wheelers come in waves of hundreds, sometimes, even thousands it seems and the roads are wide and there is a paucity of traffic signals. One way to get across will be to rent the back half of the seat of a Taxi-Scooter (if you can't lick them - join them).
The choreography is incredible. There seems to be an uncanny para-psychological comprehension or pre-consciousness of the movements of nearby vehicles.
Petty crime is rampant in the form of pick pocketing and purse snatching, further contributing to the dis-attraction of Saigon as a tourist destination.
The Park Hyatt Hotel and its “Square One” restaurant and beautiful swimming pool were our refuge in this lawless, hot and unfriendly environment.
Our positive attitude carried us through. We considered ourselves observers and “made lemonade” as the saying goes.
*5 million scooters, motorbikes or motorcycles.
HOI AN
The city of Tailors: Hoi An is a small city several hundred miles North of Saigon (near Denang, news of which you may remember from our “police action” several decades ago).
The curriculum in the secondary schools features tailoring and apparel design courses.?????????????
Several hundred little shops where you can have a dress, suits, slacks, shirts or other apparel custom made overnight.
We are expecting delivery of our new outfits several hours from now. Hopefully, these will be clothes we will enjoy wearing when we see you next (rather than demanding up as souvenirs of our trip).
We are enjoying temperate weather now that we have moved several hundred miles North.
“Scooter’s City”: in Saigon, Vietnam (a.k.a. Ho Chi Minh City) the motor scooter reigns supreme* and the pedestrian is an endangered species. There are no chickens left in Saigon, having attempted to cross the road, their genre has been decimated.
The hordes of two-wheelers come in waves of hundreds, sometimes, even thousands it seems and the roads are wide and there is a paucity of traffic signals. One way to get across will be to rent the back half of the seat of a Taxi-Scooter (if you can't lick them - join them).
The choreography is incredible. There seems to be an uncanny para-psychological comprehension or pre-consciousness of the movements of nearby vehicles.
Petty crime is rampant in the form of pick pocketing and purse snatching, further contributing to the dis-attraction of Saigon as a tourist destination.
The Park Hyatt Hotel and its “Square One” restaurant and beautiful swimming pool were our refuge in this lawless, hot and unfriendly environment.
Our positive attitude carried us through. We considered ourselves observers and “made lemonade” as the saying goes.
*5 million scooters, motorbikes or motorcycles.
HOI AN
The city of Tailors: Hoi An is a small city several hundred miles North of Saigon (near Denang, news of which you may remember from our “police action” several decades ago).
The curriculum in the secondary schools features tailoring and apparel design courses.?????????????
Several hundred little shops where you can have a dress, suits, slacks, shirts or other apparel custom made overnight.
We are expecting delivery of our new outfits several hours from now. Hopefully, these will be clothes we will enjoy wearing when we see you next (rather than demanding up as souvenirs of our trip).
We are enjoying temperate weather now that we have moved several hundred miles North.
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