Journey of contrasts Part 2

We visited a port every other day so there was plenty of time to explore the ship and it's endless entertainment options on see days. We really enjoyed all the lectures, music shows and other activities we decided to participate in. Dinner was the highlight of each day and we had lots of fun with our table company from USA, Singapore and Australia.

Zig ready for dinner

Chef's parade

late night entertainment - international band. Guess which one is Aussie?

Our port in Vietnam was Saigon. Extremely interesting not only because of it's history. It was probably much more obvious for us than other travelers (just because we experienced communism and the interconnected propaganda in its full glory some time ago) but many things we saw there were manufactured just for us to see them. It's kind of like a show and you are the audience. The tour guide kept us busy talking about their great government and how much better they have it than China or North Korea ...

The tour program looked like the pics below. Note that there are no locals to be seen ...

And this is what you see through the bus windows but you never stop there:

And the preferred form of transport below. All of these were taken a day before Chinese new year so people were on the move to see their families and the great government gives all of them 14 days of fully paid holidays to celebrate this event with their loved ones. How wonderful!

Unfortunately I never captured a family of 4 or 5 with a few suitcases on one of them. I was just too busy starring in disbelief: