Reading and Roaming
Yesterday First Lady Michelle Obama was here in Siem Reap as part of her Asian tour promoting education for young girls. We didn’t see her, but saw lots of evidence—police, armed guards, and security vans around one of the nearby hotels. Siem Reap has grown exponentially in the last ten or so years to a population …
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Our last morning in Ho Chi Minh City was devoted to a tour of some notable sites. We visited the Presidential Palace and I admired the elegant state reception rooms in particular and noted in the war council and secure rooms that not only was there the one important “red phone” which was red, but also …
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What a fascinating 24 hours we’ve had! We left Saigon yesterday morning for the trip by car to the Mekong River, about 4 hours total. We were told that before a strikingly stunning new bridge across the river, you had to take a ferry. The ferry ride wasn’t particularly long, but the wait for the …
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Today we left our hotel early and flew from Hue to Saigon. The official name of the city is Ho Chi Minh City, the name since unification in 1975, but the airport code is SGN. We’ve discovered that in the north almost everyone calls it HCM City; the older generation is more apt to call …
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