Author Archives: Jeff Warner_SAS

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11/6/11: Guilin Li River Cruise to Yangshuo

November 6, 2011 by Jeff Warner_SAS | 1 Comment

After being out late again the previous night, I decided to forego the morning ‘sunrise’ images in deference for sleeping a bit and getting packed, as we were to leave Guilin via the Li River […]

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11/5/11: Longji Mountain Village, Longsheng

November 5, 2011 by Jeff Warner_SAS | 1 Comment

As my hotel-mate Alan is a die-hard excercise fanatic (much like Heidi), he awoke at 0530 to go hike some karst hills before our bus left at 0900 for Longsheng. Hoping to get some sunrise […]

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11/4/11: Firewalled in China!

November 4, 2011 by Jeff Warner_SAS | 3 Comments

 Wow! Here I am in Guilin, China with a dedicated wireless connection in my 5-star hotel room, ready to post Malaysia and start getting Vietnam up, and… Both blogger and Facebook are firewalled! Not even […]

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11/4/11: 4-day trip to Guangxi Province

November 4, 2011 by Jeff Warner_SAS | Comments Off

We awoke to a fabulous blue-sky morning, and had breakfast out on the 6th Deck Garden Lounge, our last chance to say goodbye to the predominantly Filipino dining room crew who were going home for […]

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11/3/11: Hong Kong: Dragon’s Back Hike

November 3, 2011 by Jeff Warner_SAS | 1 Comment

As the MV Explorer approached Hong Kong, a spire of light pierced the rather thick, marine cloud layer above. It was hazy beneath the cloud layer, and row upon row of high-density residential structures lined […]

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10/31/11: Vietnam in the rear view

October 31, 2011 by Jeff Warner_SAS | 1 Comment

Vietnam is one of the countries I’d looked forward to most, after hearing we’d be traveling on the Fall 2011 Voyage. I can’t say that I had any expectations (at least none very specific), although […]

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10/30/11: Saigon’s Ben Thanh Market

October 30, 2011 by Jeff Warner_SAS | Comments Off

Our last day in Vietnam, last chance to take advantage of the dirt-cheap (‘cheap-cheap’?) prices before heading to China. The four of us hopped the shuttle downtown to the indoor Ben Thanh market, a huge […]

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10/29/11: Vietnam Day 5: Mekong Delta

October 29, 2011 by Jeff Warner_SAS | Comments Off

Heading for a day trip on the Mekong Delta with Reade, Tate and their buddy Scott Baker (Heidi was on call), I couldn’t help but think about the terrible flooding we’ve been hearing about in […]

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10/28/11: Hanoi, again

October 28, 2011 by Jeff Warner_SAS | 2 Comments

Our wonderful guide ‘Hung’ got us up and out early to get moving to the Halong Bay boat cruise. The immediate area around downtown Halong Bay where our hotel was located is not notable; there […]

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10/27/11: Halong Bay

October 27, 2011 by Jeff Warner_SAS | 3 Comments

Our wonderful guide ‘Hung’ got us up and out early to get moving to the Halong Bay boat cruise. The immediate area around downtown Halong Bay where our hotel was located is not notable; there […]

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10/26/11: Hanoi, Vietnam

October 26, 2011 by Jeff Warner_SAS | 2 Comments

The four of us left the ship at 0415 to catch a flight to Hanoi, about 1:40 flight time north of Saigon. The destination of our 3-day trip would be Halong Bay, one of the […]

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10/25/11: Vietnam Day 1: Cu Chi Tunnels

October 25, 2011 by Jeff Warner_SAS | 3 Comments

After the previous night’s combined cultural/logistical pre-port, I found myself wondering what it would be like to visit the Cu Chi Tunnels, a network of tunnels the Viet Cong used in ‘The American War’ (as […]