We are docked at Tien Sa Port, Vietnam, 7.5 miles from Danang, the third largest city in the country. What most remember of this area is China Beach.- Why? There was a TV series that ran for four season from 1988 to 1991, set in an evacuation hospital during the Vietnam War in the late 1960s at My Khe Beach, Danang.
- China Beach, had a Rotten Tomatoes score of 94.
- Show was actually filmed in California.
- American soldiers use this R&R spot, and provided the nickname, China Beach.
- No official length, but a series of beaches over a 21-mile stretch of the coastline beginning in Danang, going south.
- I was here in 2010. A quote from my posting.
- A decade ago I asked, WHICH IS THE BEST BEACH IN THE WORLD?
Vietnam) China Beach (picture 100 yards of beach extending for 19 miles, a distance from Waikiki to Pearl Harbor and back to Waikiki) along a five-star mega resort, with five more being built, including a J.W. Marriott and a Hyatt, plus a casino and two golf courses. Another way to look at the length of China Beach is from Waikiki to Wahiawa. This is the type of attraction Hawaii will need to compete against into the future.
On board the Ritz-Carlton Luminara, we woke up late to have lunch at Mistral. Had a Bloody Mary and Decoy Cabernet Sauvignon with lunch, of Mistral Caesar Salad, Flank Steak and Scorched White Asparagus.
In The Living Room, had a tasting of Scotches. Begun with a few we regularly drink. #s 3 and 4 were Glenfiddich, and I did not know that there are two versions, mellow and more substantive.
Dinner was in Azur. Started with a wedge salad. I'm half finished,
My meal was a combination of Butter Miso Soup, Seared Foie Gras, Creamed Corn and Charred Brocollini, with glass of Dewars White Label and Decoy Cabernet Sauvignon.
Stopped by The Living Room for some popular jazz music with the Luminara Band.
Walked only 1248 steps.
We will be at sea tomorrow, followed by Halong Bay, with our final destination, Hong Kong, in three days. A few more in that city, then Seoul, a short stop in Tokyo and back to Honolulu on January 24.
- Few know that he actually admired the United States and lived in Boston and New York City,
- He was born in 1880, was well-educated, came from a prosperous middle-class family, had a heck of a life and passed away at the age of 79.
- At the age of 21, traveled the world for eight years as a dishwasher and cook on ships, in France and the U.S
- It is known that he worked at the Parker House Hotel in Boston, whose guests over the years included Charles Dickens and John Wilkes Booth.
- He saw the USA as a revolutionary underdog with a history of resistance to Great Britain. He wanted to do the same for his country. With other fellow Vietnamese nationalists, they actually petioned Woodrow Wilson in 1919 to help get their freedom from France.
- Became a communist in the 1920s, and helped launch their revolution back home in Japanese occupied French Indonesia in the forties. He is third from the left in the following photo with an OSS team in 1945.
- It took him a decade to force out the French in 1954, than another two decades to get rid of the USA in 1975. This is a photo of him in 1959.
- However, he passed away in 1969 and never saw the victory.
- At the end of the Vietnam Wars, the re-capture of Saigon led to a renaming in his honor as Ho Chi Minh City.
- His statue in Ho Chi Minh City.
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