Arriving in Ketchikan We left Seattle and spent one day cruising up the Inside Passage along the coast of British Columbia in Canada. The first port on our Alaska cruise was Ketchikan. We booked a rainforest excursion in Ketchikan as our first taste of Alaska. The weather forecast was variable. […]
Landing In Prince Rupert We did tours in Ketchikan and Sitka in Alaska and hoped to see wild life. Mostly we saw rainy Alaska in the early summer. The islands and rainforests of the Alaskan Panhandle provided a great look into the natural habitat of southern Alaska. Our last port […]
Arriving In Tenerife Tenerife was the final Canary Island we visited on this trip. They were all quite different. Lanzarote was an arid volcanic mountain with stunning scenery. La Palma was a green and lush oasis. Tenerife was the most developed island. There are about 1 million inhabitants and 6 […]
As Different As Night From Day We loved our first taste of the Canary Islands. Lanzarote was an arid volcanic island with the stark colours that come with arid climates and volcanic soil. By contrast, our second stop in the Canary Islands was the green and lush La Palma Island. […]
Our First Stop in the Canary Islands Was On Lanzarote We got our first introduction to the volcanic islands of the Atlantic Ocean on our day in Cape Verde. Three days in the Canary Islands let us get another range of impressions for this volcanic archipelago. The first stop gave […]
Crossing the Atlantic Ocean We started our cruise in Miami. The ship then did a short Caribbean cruise. We enjoyed an undersea adventure in Barbados before we started to cross the Atlantic Ocean. After four days at sea, our first port was the volcanic islands of Cape Verde. We landed […]
The Port in Barbados Leaving Antigua, we stopped in our final port on the Caribbean island portion of our cruise in Bridgetown, Barbados. This was a return visit to Barbados for us. We stopped in Barbados on a previous cruise of the eastern Caribbean islands. We had a good bus […]
Our First Stop in Oman There are lots of things to see and do in Oman. We just scratched the surface on our cruise visits. If you are looking for things to do in Muscat, we have a long list to start you with. If you only have a short […]
Arriving At The Grand Mosque As we travelled through the Middle East countries and the UAE (United Arab Emirates) we saw many beautiful mosques. The most beautiful one we saw up close on our amazing 10 week adventure was the Grand Mosque in Muscat, Oman. The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque […]
Heading Inland in India After a short visit in the UAE (United Arab Emirates), we started the next leg of our trip cruising the coast of India. But there was no way I was coming this far and not taking a trip inland. We would leave the ship for 3 […]
Arriving In Mumbai We finished visiting Oman with all the beautiful mosques. The next leg of our cruise took us down the coast of India. The first port of call was Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay). We had only one day to explore Mumbai because we left the next day […]
Arriving in Cochin, India We finished up our inland tour of the Taj Mahal back on the coast in Mangalore India. Arriving back at the ship late in the afternoon left no time to tour this stop. We would get our chance to explore another coastal town in India when […]
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