Thursday, January 25, 2007

Some thing we'll remember about Asia

Some things we’ll remember. . .

We’ve written about some of the highlights of our trip, but there is so much more that we’ll remember

Paul

Christina

· The beautiful, soft spoken, Chinese women

· Cleanliness of the city streets, the improving pollution

· How cheap it is; taxi rides $1.50, Four Seasons Hotel $350 for the Executive Suite, $10.00 for two Mao watches!

· How easy it was to get around—great signage in English everywhere

· A plethora of travel documents; visas, arrival/departure forms, Customs in/out

· How well we were taken care of by the various guides in each city—there was nothing they didn’t think of to make the trip hassle free

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· The warm welcome wherever we went

· Incredibly great service, especially in Vietnam and Beijing

· Being a local curiosity—people staring and wanting to take our picture

· Dim Sum—especially the variety of dumplings

· Dragon fruit, winter dates and so many other new tastes

· Bargaining—I’m sure I was usually on the losing end!

· Just when I was beginning to get comfortable with ‘Ne hao, ding hao, shay, shay and more, it’s time to leave

· Beautiful Shanghai Museum

· The neon lights everywhere!

· Incredible architecture – the skylines in all the cities were so unique

· Feng Shui – we’ll never look at things the same way again!

· The fact that everything has a reason and a story in China

· Driving the boat on the Mekong River

· The European feeling of Shanghai

· The history everywhere and the pride of the people in each country

· The beautiful Silver Whisper and the friends we met on the ship

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