Voyager of the Seas Picture Review Singapore to Shanghai June 2012

[starbuzz]

This is wonderfull! so enjoying all the great pictures.

 

Thank you!!:)

[Iluvcruising2]

Our next stop was the War Remnants museum. Prior to 1993, this was the War Crimes Museum. Whose crimes? Allegedly Uncle Sam's.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Remnants_Museum_%28Ho_Chi_Minh_City%29

 

Not for the faint-hearted, I must say. Lots and lots of very graphic war pictures. War is cruel, no doubt about that. I realised that I didn't take any photos of those graphic pictures. Too sad for me. So the photos here are of all the American war material on display.

 

 

I was told that the chopper on the right is a Chinook.

 

Ammunition. Not sure if they can still be used!

Edited June 21, 2012 by Iluvcruising2

[Iluvcruising2]

Wouldn't it be nice to have a collection of these at home? Maybe not.

 

These look mean, really mean.

 

Somebody forgot to clean up the 'junk'.

[Iluvcruising2]

I did find the name of the museum rather strange at first - War Remnants. Later I found out it used to be War Crimes. I suppose they just had to change the word Crimes to Remants after relations with USA were normalized.

 

However, inside the museum, it was still all about war crimes.

 

 

If you are not familiar with Agent Orange, please read -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange

 

The pictures were extremely disturbing. If you intend to bring kids to the museum, please prepare them properly.

 

Who thought of this Agent Orange idea anyway? It's quite crazy, like seriously.

Edited June 21, 2012 by Iluvcruising2

[Iluvcruising2]

This is wonderfull! so enjoying all the great pictures.

 

Thank you!!:)

 

Thanks. Glad you liked it.

[wolfegizmo]

Thanks so much! I am enjoying the picture review!

 

Since we will be ending our cruise in Singapore, will it be easy enough to get a taxi from the port to our hotel?

 

Thanks!

Sharon

[Iluvcruising2]

 

Ok, this will be my last pic from the War Remnants Museum.

[Iluvcruising2]

Next stop was some temple. We spent like 15 minutes there. Nothing much to see. (well, I guess from a Singaporean perspective, we have many similar temples locally)

 

 

KFC in the background.

Edited June 21, 2012 by Iluvcruising2

[Iluvcruising2]

Some short video clips -

 

 

 

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[Iluvcruising2]

Next stop was a laquer-ware factory cum store. Nice stuff but rather pricey, I must say.

 

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[Iluvcruising2]

Thanks so much! I am enjoying the picture review!

 

Since we will be ending our cruise in Singapore, will it be easy enough to get a taxi from the port to our hotel?

 

Thanks!

Sharon

 

Shouldn't be a problem at all. Which hotel would you be staying at?

Edited June 21, 2012 by Iluvcruising2

[Iluvcruising2]

Ok, I'll call it a night for now. It's 2230 local time, and I'm off to bed.

 

If there is demand, I shall continue the picture review.

 

Please feel free to leave me your comments on what I have posted so far.

 

Cheers & have a good night (or good day). :)

Edited June 21, 2012 by Iluvcruising2

[bus man]

Very interesting pictures. I'm looking forward to seeing more.

 

I'm surprised at how many of your fellow passengers appear to be white people. I would have expected more Asians on a cruise through southeast Asia. I see that the Cruise Compasses were in English. What about the announcements? And was the food "typical" cruise food, or were there more local dishes available? (Or, both?)

[sandy66]

Ok, I'll call it a night for now. It's 2230 local time, and I'm off to bed.

 

If there is demand, I shall continue the picture review.

 

Please feel free to leave me your comments on what I have posted so far.

 

Cheers & have a good night (or good day). :)

Oh, please keep on writing and posting. Your pictures are great. I travel to HK and Xiamen quite often for business and never have enough time sightsee so I would love to see pictures from a tourist/cruisers perspective. Thanks so much.

[Iluvcruising2]

Very interesting pictures. I'm looking forward to seeing more.

 

I'm surprised at how many of your fellow passengers appear to be white people. I would have expected more Asians on a cruise through southeast Asia. I see that the Cruise Compasses were in English. What about the announcements? And was the food "typical" cruise food, or were there more local dishes available? (Or, both?)

 

This particular cruise had a substantial number of white people. I recall 500ish Australians and also a large number from European countries and also more than 100 from America.

 

Singaporeans formed the majority, almost 1,000 of us.

 

I will post pictures of the cruise food soon.

Edited June 21, 2012 by Iluvcruising2

[Iluvcruising2]

Announcements were always in English first, sometimes followed by mandarin.

 

Cruise compass delivered to stateroom was English. Other language versions were available at Guest relations.

 

However I noticed the stack of cruise compasses to be delivered to staterooms were printed in Chinese, for the next sailing.

Edited June 21, 2012 by Iluvcruising2

[Tom_n_Sara]

Good review. It's amazing to see Saigon after 40 years.

[baggal]

The basement of the Palace contained many rooms from which the President monitored the war effort. There was also a bunker.

 

 

In their rush to get out of Vietnam, I think the Americans left behind lots of equipment. Now, they serve as fine exhibits.

 

 

These looks like signal equipment.

 

Wonder why they needed so many typewriters. They certainly weren't typing love letters to the VietCong.

 

The typewriters are teletype machines or known as Telex. They were the predecessor to fax machines. You could type a message and send it directly through the phone lines. They were used mostly for international communications. They were used until fax machines became popular, about 30 years ago.

[PathfinderEss]

Nice review, thanks for posting.

[wolfegizmo]

Love the review!

Thanks for all the info!

 

We are staying at the Mandarin in Singapore.

They have a car service to pick us up but it seems very expensive.

We thought we would take a taxi if possible.

 

Sharon

[hengkee]

Nice pix thanks for sharing !!!

[mking8288]

Next stop was some temple. We spent like 15 minutes there. Nothing much to see. (well, I guess from a Singaporean perspective, we have many similar temples locally)

 

 

 

OMG, I think we recognized that old Chinese temple, it's somewhere near District 5, as we're on a private tour riding high on the Benz van (symbolic icon of capitalism, LOL) and it was not well kept, there was a small pond outside in the courtyard (right side of photo) with dirty, dark standing water - actually, kind of depressing to see it in that shape as we're told it's over 100 years old (and, sure looked its age.) There was no fortune teller around to read those wooden sticks, no locals selling incense or offering souvenirs to tourists, etc. The ladies tried to use the restroom off to the side of the temple's main hall, suffice to say they saw it & ran out quickly and asked the driver to get going as they rather "hold" and wait ...

 

Very informative photo journal & review - we are thinking of doing an Asian cruise with stops in Vietnam & Singarpore, this is very, very cool - THANKS !! ;) :)

Edited June 22, 2012 by mking8288

[Iluvcruising2]

Love the review!

Thanks for all the info!

 

We are staying at the Mandarin in Singapore.

They have a car service to pick us up but it seems very expensive.

We thought we would take a taxi if possible.

 

Sharon

 

Please don't bother with the car service. Plenty of taxis available on cruise day.

 

Make sure you get the full name and address of your hotel in Singapore though. These days there are so many Mandarins- Mandarin Oriental, Marina Mandarin etc. Locals get confused. I heard taxi drivers also get confused.

Edited June 22, 2012 by Iluvcruising2

[smoosh21]

Do you have any pics of the refurbished Casino? I know they were making lots of changes to it, to suit the Asian market.

[tomjohnsonjr]

Thanks for your review

Edited June 22, 2012 by tomjohnsonjr
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