This month-long foray from Singapore to Hong Kong captures a thousand snapshots of life in the Far East, as it was and as it is today. Walks along tropical forest trails in Java, rides on rickety Tuk Tuks, visits to gilded Wats in Cambodia, along teeming clongs and Chatuchak stalls in Bangkok will add new words to your vocabulary. We'll pair names forever linked with the Vietnam War with unspoilt postcard scenes. We'll include an overnight call in Saigon, once dubbed 'Paris of the Orient', where our guides will vividly describe the last-minute rooftop embassy evacuation and take us further back in time to fashionable colonnaded boulevards left behind by the French. Breathtaking scenes unfold around Ha Long Bay as junk sails ribbed like giant banana leaves against a backdrop of pointed peaks rise steeply above aquamarine waters.