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Southeast Asia Cruise
January-February 2016 
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In January and the first days of February 2016 we took a cruise aboard Holland America's MS Volendam along the coast of Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, embarking at Singapore and ending at Hong Kong.  The fourteen day cruise introduced us to many different and fascinating cultures, although I had previously been to Vietnam (I served there eleven months in 1969-70, and consulted in Hanoi on behalf of the U.N. twice in 1997). 

Peoples and lands visited were exotic and photographically rich.  Because we mostly took excursions offered through the ship, we had relatively little unstructured contact with the places visited (exceptions were the days spent in Singapore and Hong Kong, a cooking course in Saigon [Ho Chi Minh City], and a day spent in Hoi An south of Danang).  The meals eaten ashore were wonderful (mostly Chinese in Singapore and Hong Kong; lightly spiced lunch of Thai dishes in Bangkok; native dishes in Kampot, Cambodia; the Vietnamese lunch we cooked for ourselves in Saigon; a $14 dinner of Vietnamese cuisine at Lanterns Restaurant in Nha Trang (excellent); and a delicious and inventive Vietnamese lunch at Nu Eatery in Hoi An).

So offered here is the best of the photography.  If you are interested, a public photo album on Facebook offers many more photos, more in a travelogue style.  And links to videos.

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