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HA LONG BAY, VIETNAM
All of our ports were interesting, but there were two highlights for me on our next segment on board, my overnight trip to Angkor Wat and our visit to Ha Long Bay, where a beautifully eerie morning sail-in had us all in awe. We also stopped in Bintan, Indonesia, Muara, Brunei, Chan May, Vietnam, Ho…
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY PATRICIA!!
I celebrated my #$%# birthday in Penang, Malaysia on board Insignia on the Around the World cruise. There were friends on board from the 2018 and 2020 cruises, plus new friends made on this cruise. It was a wonderful evening in the Grand Dining Room with about 36 friends and the most delicious carrot cake…
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IT’S TOO DAMN HOT!!!!
Still rambling around Asia! Right now it is monsoon season in this part of the world, and the weather is HOT & HUMID!! The temperatures are in the high 90s, but with the humidity it feels like 110, and you are soaked from the skin out and hair is dripping in a matter of minutes…
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RAMBLING ON IN ASIA…
The cruise has been going well and we have been so fortunate with the weather. There have been a few changes, ie Peru was taken off the list and also Myanmar, both because of political unrest in those countries at the time we were supposed to be there. I am “a little” behind in my…
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KATHMANDU, NEPAL
After a couple of sea days, we dock in Mumbai and head for the airport and our Nepal Airways flight to Kathmandu. I have been waiting for this overland visit for three years now and I am very excited to finally get there. It’s hard to get through the airport in Kathmandu because there are…
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
DUBAI & FUJAIRAH It’s been just about thirteen years since I last visited Dubai on a trip with friends the year after Don passed away. I was impressed at the time and today I am even more impressed!! It has grown and is the most populous city in the UAE. It still has the famous…
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OMAN – Salalah & Muscat
It is no surprise that tourism is the fastest growing industry in Oman. Their beaches alone are so beautiful and plentiful and it is one of the cleanest countries we visited up to now, and no one is sleeping in the streets. The landscape looks rather barren with its gravel desert and hills full of…
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SEA DAYS
Three days at sea, and we have lots to keep us busy – birthdays, choir, art, dinners with new and old friends, lectures, dancing, karaoke, fashion show, trivia – to name a few of the fun things to do on board, and then there is always sleep!!
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SEYCHELLES – Mahé & La Digue
At Port Victoria in Mahé, in the SEYCHELLES, one of the first things I saw was a fishing trawler docked just behind us hauling tons and tons of fish out of its belly that were then loaded into a refrigerated container, one of many standing by, and other fishing ships ready to unload the same.…
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MADAGASCAR
On our 2018 cruise, one of the big disappointments was we were not able to get into Madagascar. The ship cited ‘weather’, but we had also heard they had an outbreak of the Black Plague. Whatever the reason, I guess they were both good ones. But this time the weather is perfect, sunny with blue…
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