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So… I’m a month behind in posting but I’ll try to catch up! Dubai! Two days full of buildings that are the biggest or have the strangest architecture and experiences that top all others.
Evening of day 1 was a Dhow Cruise. We had a buffet dinner on a converted traditional dhow boat cruising down the Dubai creek. Our second day brought us to the world’s tallest building, the world’s largest mall (in terms of retail shops), and a mall with an indoor ski area!
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Penang, Malaysia – Phuket, Thailand & Colombo, Sri Lanka
Penang was a port change so without a shore excursion we joined with some cruise friends and negotiated a taxi for the day and took off to explore a batik factory, Buddhist temple, and Chew Jetty where people live on stilts over the water so they don’t have to pay property taxes! In Phuket we…
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Singapore
After a 3 hour delayed start (due to the immigration process), we finally made our way to the Marina Bay Sands Hotel and the Observation Deck where you can “EXPERIENCE THE EXTRAORDINARY”. The deck has 360 degree views of the city and the hotel has retail shops, gondola rides and a very high roller casino.…
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Komodo Island, Indonesia 🇮🇩
What an incredible visit to Komodo Island to see the Komodo dragons. They are the largest lizard on earth and meat eaters. We did a 90 minute hike around their habitat and we’re able to see some large ones as well as very small (about 5 year old) ones.
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Melbourne Australia
Melbourne was our bonus city, it was added when our 3 New Zealand ports were cancelled. We did a bike tour of the city… well we almost completed a bike tour! The city is wonderful and very bike friendly, the heat however was another story. At 95 degrees with one bottle of water, Mary Ann…
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Sydney Australia
The beauty of Sydney was sailing in and out of the harbor. We sailed in at sunrise and sailed out to fireworks, but with the beautiful opera house in view. Our excursion for the day was a trip to the Blue Mountains (which have a blue tint because of the evaporating eucalyptus oil). Lovely view…
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Love is in the air
Bad news is … Cyclone Gabrielle caused us to skip our last three New Zealand ports. Just gives us an excuse to return sometime soon! The good news is … 3 extra sea days that the crew filled with activities. Today was Valentines Day and we participated in a group vow renewal. Always something new…
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New Zealand
1st port – Bay of Islands and a trip to the Puketi Forest and Kawiti glowworm caves. 2nd port – Auckland and zip lining followed by a visit with a camp friend. 3rd port – Tauranga and a trip to Lake Rotoit and a 6 mile kayak trip to see more glowworms and a thermal…
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