Random thoughts from the sea
Day 97, 2024 Grand World Voyage Tuesday, April 9, 2024; Zanzibar, Tanzania. If yesterday was all about the natural side of Zanzibar, today is about Zanzibar City and its historic center of Stone Town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Again, we took a half-day excursion through our travel agency. We
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Day 96, 2024 Grand World Voyage Monday, April 8, 2024; Zanzibar, Tanzania. We’ve arrived in Africa! And let me just start out saying that Zanzibar is a great introduction to this vast continent. Yes, I’ve been to Africa before, but never Tanzania. It is in fact the 13th African country
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Days 92-93, 2024 Grand World Voyage Wednesday and Thursday, April 4-5, 2024; Victoria, Mahé, Seychelles. When I imagine faraway island paradises, it’s hard to beat the Indian Ocean nations of Maldives and Seychelles. I was disappointed in 2020 when our grand world voyage ended abruptly due to the pandemic before
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Day 88, 2024 Grand World Voyage Sunday, March 31, 2024; Malé, Maldives. I am hearing decidedly different opinions of Malé, the capital city of the Maldives, from those who went ashore yesterday. Perhaps some didn’t expect a densely packed small city. In fact, Malé is the world’s smallest capital city
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Day 87, 2024 Grand World Voyage Saturday, March 30, 2024; Malé, Maldives. If your idea of paradise is a comfy lounge chair under the shade of a palm tree, listening to the soft sounds of the surf on the beach while drinking a fruity beverage, then today was for you.
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Day 85, 2024 Grand World Voyage Thursday, March 28, 2024; Colombo, Sri Lanka. I had lots of opportunities to see elephants in Sri Lanka. To feed them. To bathe them. Perhaps even to ride them, although not on any of the Holland America excursions. The practice is controversial. (Not so
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Day 81, 2024 Grand World Voyage Sunday, March 24, 2024; Singapore. After my fun day on my own in Saigon, I decided to treat myself again today. My sisters, who hadn’t been to Singapore before, took an Iconic Singapore ship excursion that included a riverboat cruise to Marina Bay, a
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Day 80, 2024 Grand World Voyage Saturday, March 23, 2024; Singapore. Sailing into Singapore is another iconic experience. The Zuiderdam wove its way at dawn through a maze of anchored ships, heading toward what appears to be another ship flying through the sky. It’s the Marina Bay Sands hotel, with
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Day 78, 2024 Grand World Voyage Thursday, March 21, 2024; Ho Chi Minh City/Saigon, Vietnam. One of my strongest memories of my first trip to Ho Chi Minh City in 2017 is of the War Remnants Museum. It showed a totally different picture of the war than I learned mainly
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Day 76, 2024 Grand World Voyage Tuesday, March 19, 2024; Da Nang, Vietnam During previous cruise port calls in Vietnam, I’ve come away thinking that I should book a week or longer in this country. It is a beautiful country – mostly lush green with stunning beaches and rugged mountains.
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