March 3rd was mostly just cruising on the boat so I am going to use this blog post to tell you about things that are interesting but don't need their own post.
The trees in Saigon have numbers on them. It is so one can report to authorities that "Tree number 7 on Naga street is looking sickly." The trees inside the park numbered over 1,500. They really like their trees in Saigon.
Naga is the first being on the world according to the Buddhist creation story. Naga is a snake father and always has an odd number of heads. Naga is the normally used in temple architecture for the banisters of the stairs. Cambodian Buddhists like odd numbers except on Wedding Days. Cambodian statues of Buddha are slimmer and more youthful then in Chinese and Vietnamese which have a fat jolly Buddha.
We were on a boat with 52 other guests, the two guides and 30 crew members. They all remembered my name, my food intolerance and my likes. I know that most of them are from Cambodia and that they spend 10 months on the boat with no full day break. We left around 10 am and the next group boarded the boat at 4 pm. I also know they serve enough alcohol on that boat to keep the Titanic afloat.
Speaking of the Titanic, I saw a restaurant in Phnom Penh that was named the Titanic. It was huge, on the waterfront (with long stilts holding it over the river) and the guides had no idea why we were not interested in eating there. There was also a Titanic Hotel in Hanoi but I am getting ahead of myself.
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