Dangers
The Thai border Thailand-Cambodia is still considered an unsafe place due the presence of some Khmer Rouge descendings.
Read about my travel experience to Cambodia on this site.
Viet Nam
A place where, in the past, your mind could explode for mysterious reasons, maybe due a still unhealthy air.
" Welcome To Viet Nam, mr. Fiorenzano ! "
from a kind welcome in Saigon to a urgent hospitalization for nervous crisis at my return in Italy
"Welcome to Viet Nam. mr. Fabrizio Fiorenzano".
With these kind words
I was welcomed to the Saigon International Airport from a deputy of the Vietnamese government sent by the Embassy in Rome to take me at my arrival.
When I landed to Saigon after a very long flight with the KLM air company (Rome-Amsterdam-Kuala Lumpur-Saigon), I felt so tired but so very excited at the same time.
According to the political guidelines that was in force in 1993, I was forced to spend the first night in one of the three hotels suggested by the embassy, so I choosed to stay for the first three nights at the Bong Sen hotel in Saigon 117-123 Dong Khoi, District 1.
Here I met two bulgarian air pilots working for Singapore Airlines: Emil Kostov and Stephan Tontchev based in my same hotel.
Today, after so many years, I still don't like to talk about my experience in Viet Nam and the only desire I have is to find my friends Emil and Stephan.
I don't know how Viet Nam appears now, and I really do not want to know.
Is very important to say that, when I went to Viet Nam in 1993, this country was still oppressed by a very long commercial embargo imposed by the United States during wartime and abolished by the President Bill Clinton in 1994 (30 years later).
The member of the government was a very nice person
