The Archive · 1930

BIG GAME IN INDO-CHINA

To the Editor of the "Nontu-Cuiwa Daty News."

'Sit,—Shortly before I left Shanghai an advertisement in the columns of the "North-China Daily News' caused some inquiry among your readers as to the cost of big-game shooting in French Indo-China, and the following may therefore be of interest.

The Anglo-American Tourist Bureau, 4U Rue Chaigneau, Saigon, advertises a 80-day trip, of which four days are consumed ' in travel ing to and from the ground, including motor-driver, gasoline and all, guide, £004, mineral waters and wine, cat equipment, cook, boy, messengers, shooting licence' and cost of bait far 3,000 plasters for one, ov 4,308 for two persons. While' in camp the car can only be driven 60 Kilometres rer day. The shooting Hicence alone costs piastres 300 each, and the piastre is practically at par with the Hongkong dollar, While T have not taken this teipy I found the transport furnished mo by these people from Saigon to the Siam border, including ix dayat stop at the ruins of Angkor and Jone at Pnom Penh quite satisfac tory.

The Hua Hin is a very comfort Jable hotel and the gardens border 'a long beach of firm sand facing the blue waters of the Gulf pf Siam. There is a good 18 hole links [within a quarter of a mil Mr. L. Amidani, out after ti near Dalat, the result.

Lam, ete Anratun L, ANDERSON.

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