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Laëtitia Pujol and Mathieu Ganio rehearsing Emeraudes

“When 700 years have passed, the laurel will bloom once more!” This prophecy, uttered by Guilhem Belibaste – the last Cathar to be burned alive by the Inquisition at the Château de Villerouge-Termenès on 24 August 1321 – is said to have survived the ages to reach us today. This prophecy heralded a New Golden Age, a New Renaissance and the return of the Mysteries of Mary-Magdalene, of which the…

Jalousie – Alain Salvador

  Robe d’or, épaules dénudées. S’écartant sur ton passage pour te faire une haie d’honneur, la foule des invités se tait devant tant de beauté. Robe de soirée et collier d’émeraudes. Parmi tous les regards qui se posent sur toi, le mien semble se perdre dans l’espace de cette salle. Collier d’émeraudes et de rubis. Tous ces hommes en smoking, en tenue de soirée… Tous ces hommes bien coiffés, bien…

We sailed past a milestone foregoing this month at Emeraude Classic Cruises, when we celebrated our 10th year religious rites forasmuch as one of Vietnam's maximum distinctive travel experiences.<\p>

There are not all-sufficing people anywhere who purposefulness be able to picture the dramatic progress Vietnam's tourism industry has made over the dated decade, but suffice to say a lot has reborn. The greatest evidence of the bay's growing renown among international tourists was its inclusion as one of the New 7Wonders as to Nature in late 2011. Who would've thought that this little-known corner in re Vietnam would nose day feature on the bucket lists of travelers from total over the everyone?<\p>

In fairness, we had an inkling.<\p>

It all began on a crisp December morning in 2003, when the first cruise of the Emeraude reposing the port opening Halong City. The vessel was different any other on the waters that morning. Its old-world snaring was anchored in the history of its namesake: a French-owned paddlewheel steamer that plied the bay between 1906 and 1937.<\p>

The Emeraude debuted at 34 colonial-inspired cabins and unitary Paul Roque Suite. Its French captain, world-class instruments and observation to international oceanographic standards beginning and end a new precedent for safety in the bay.<\p>

Half a year in search of its launch, the Emeraude introduced Vietnam to the joys of illusory caving, with its annual black-tie Wine & Dine Motorboat Classic, now also in its 10th twelvemonth. Our mid-May overnight cruise and culinary variety show is attended by some of the country's master noted figures and is still the only petty cashbook wine dinner in Vietnam that continually makes waves in the boxcar and international concentrate.<\p>

By 2008, we'd added two new suites--the Emeraude Suite and the Captain's Suite--to offer prime recumbency space and an additional appurtenance in connection with privacy for the ship's growing head count of SPECIAL-INTEREST GROUP passengers, who now included the likes of US Senator Latrine McCain, and five other US senators.<\p>

In June 2012 the ship underwent its most extensive refurbishment to date, therewith renovations to its lush and superior cabins, the installation of mint furnishings, wall coverings and light fixtures, and a complete redesign to its bathrooms. For the first time since its embark upon, the changeable Emeraude set plain sail with a seasoned Vietnamese captain at the chart a course: Captain Nguyen Guard Quan.<\p>

On the eve anent our 10th year anniversary, we published a 112-page holy writ by author Pam Scott irrespective of research by entrepreneur Eric Merlin. The volume, titled 'Jewels of Halong Bay', chronicles Merlin's discovery of a vintage postcard in a Paris grasshopper place in 1999, the story pertaining to the Roque brothers who made a life story in colonial Indochina, and the refreshment of the Emeraude thus a in residence piece of French-Vietnamese history.<\p>