Charlie don't surf! But if you do, and trampling European antiquities looking for shit Dan Brown made up isn't enough of a holiday for you, why, now you can relive the horrah of Apocalypse Now, the Guardian reports.
You might think that movie tourism is a genteel business - why not visit the sun-drenched Italian landscapes featured in The English Patient, or the castles and battlefields seen in Mel Gibson's Braveheart? At an all-inclusive cost of £3,950 a head, this 16-day journey through Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia promises to re-create several of the film's most famous scenes.Guided by Indochina expert Peter O'Sullivan, who has reported from Cambodia for the BBC World Service, an intrepid dozen will start by riding US jeeps through the streets of Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon, as was). Then, like Captain Willard and his doomed crew, they will head up the Mekong river by motorboat - "into the Heart of Darkness", as the brochure puts it - pausing to water-ski to the sound of the Rolling Stones. In Cambodia, the in-flight entertainment on a helicopter ride over paddy fields will, naturally, be Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries.
Wonder whether they 'copter in the Bunnies once [original release] or twice [redux]? And do they pick off your fellow vacationers en route? The cinetrix has so many questions!
[Also, I like Kathie Lee Gifford for Clean. C'mon, after all those Carnival Cruises?]
Of course, if you've seen Hearts of Darkness, you already know the flick was actually lensed in Cambodia. If you don't, well, bon voyage!
