Jade Monkey

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James Holding. Jade Monkey

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The round-the-world cruise ship, on which I’d been a minimum-rate passenger since San Francisco, anchored at dawn off the mouth of the Chao Phraya River in the Gulf of Siam. A huge flat-bottom barge met it there to carry three hundred of us, American tourists all, across the sandbar blocking the river’s mouth and upstream to Bangkok for two days of sightseeing, then back downstream to our cruise ship again the next evening.

Incredibly, there was no customs inspection for two-day cruise-tourists of our kind, either coming or going from Bangkok. That’s why I chose to enter the city, and leave it, as such a tourist. For the excursion, I carried with me from the ship only my large hold-all camera bag, toothbrush and razor, and my umbrella.

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