Arrival at the world's largest port

At 4 am we turned into the Yangtze, although I didn't get on deck to watch until 6 am. This arrival was the Ho Chi Minh City arrival multiplied many times but with the same industrialization and same pollution. As we came along the channel, a veritable convoy of freighters heading for sea passed very close - about a ship's length apart. Now we are docked just across the water from the famous skyline that has risen in the past 25 years.

On deck I briefly talked with one of  the ship's lecturers, a

former CEO of Honda. I commented on the Asian economic explosive growth of the past few decades and he said it was as significant as the Industrial Revolution but more striking for having happened in only 30 years.