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Deluxe cruise in Halong Bay, Vietnam › Artikel
Deluxe cruise in Halong Bay, VietnamMy first trip to Vietnam's magnificent Halong Bay wasnearly 10 years ago. Back then luxury wasn't an option. In fact, options weren't much of an option. Women traveling on the converted junk were told to sleep in the suffocatingly hot below-deck cabin, men ordered to stretch out on sticky vinyl mats above. We ignored the instructions and slept on the roof. Up top there was slight relief from the heat but absolutely none from the mosquitoes. Still, cruising Halong's azure waters and weaving between stunning limestone islets, it would be hard to complain, no matter how rudimentary the boat was, right? Actually, wrong. Some people found a way. A group of English backpackers ignored the views, sat inside the boat and whined incessantly about the price of the Chinese beer. They weren't the only problem. An American traveler paced the boat half the night, petrified of pirate attacks; a young woman suffered dreadful jellyfish stings, and, I have to admit, the backpackers weren't wrong about the Chinese beer: awful, warm and overpriced. I thought about that ill-fated trip recently when I boarded the Emeraude, a cruiser built recently to resemble a turn-of-the-century paddle steamer - with century-old charm and modern amenities - and made my way to the top-deck lounge bar to watch Halong City recede into the background. The boat is the passion of the French travel agent Eric Merlin, an avid collector of objects and postcards from Vietnam's French colonial era. In a flea market on the outskirts of Paris a few years ago, he happened upon a set of cards from 1906 depicting Halong Bay and the nearby port at Hai Phong. Intrigued, he visited the Musée de la Marine in Paris, where he found another set of cards picturing the paddle steamers that plied the Halong Bay waters in the early 20th century. Under a magnifying glass, the boats gave up their names: the Emeraude, Perle, Saphir and Rubis. When he found the boats had belonged to the Paul Roque family, he wrote to all 1,220 Roques in the phone book, eventually meeting 87-year-old Xavier, Paul Roque's son, at Xavier's Paris apartment, filled with Indochinese art and memorabilia. Xavier had been a boy when the family returned to France, but he was able to provide Merlin with a 20-page account of their history. In the 1850s his grandfather, along with two brothers, left Bordeaux for Cochinchina, where the French had a toehold at the port city of Danang. The brothers were looking for adventure, and their timing was perfect. France went on to annex more and more territory and to eventually create French Indochina. By the time Xavier's father, Paul, arrived to start the passenger and freight ferry business in 1895, Paul's father and uncles had already made, lost and remade fortunes in supplying the military and in trading sugar and timber. A bit more than a century later, not much has changed on Halong Bay. Paul's original 30-page tour brochure likens the 3,000 islets to a "prehistoric architecture." It says that to journey on the bay's unrippled water with "paddles turning with the slowness of a mill" is to have the "heart invaded by an untranslatable anguish and a fever to traverse this bay with the name that sounds like a blow on a gong." According to legend, the "bay of the descending dragon," as Halong literally translates, was created when a family of dragons, sent by the gods, spat jewels and jade into the sea to form a fortress against invaders from the north. The fortress they created is stunningly beautiful. Halong Bay is flecked with limestone islets. Some rise sheer out of the sea, creating shaded corridors in the water, while others have large grottoes or small beaches. It is a jewel of Vietnamese tourism that Merlin wanted to capture. When he found a report from the Indochinese police on the sinking of the Emeraude in 1937, he resolved to raise it from its watery grave - in spirit at least - and commissioned a 38-cabin boat reminiscent of the original but with an inboard motor and air-conditioned cabins. It was launched at the end of 2003. The result combines luxury with period style. And as a way to see the bay, it beats warm Chinese beer and mosquitoes any day. _SHARE: Eingereicht von giraldovn am Thursday, 01 January 1970 (01:33:25) CET (19079 gelesen) [ Administration ] |
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