Prague
Hello from Prague! A wonderful visit to Prague at Xmas time , my 1st time in 45 years ! The weather is cooperating, it is cooler, just above freezing, no snow, but it is sunny ,the city is dressed up for Czech's most favorite holiday of the year! Every square, passage, balconies, hotels are adorned...
London
Leaving on a jet plane, don't know when and if I 'll be back again...bye Africa!
Cape Ton 3 and 4
Our 5th safari trip was to Aquila reserve, around 200 km north from CT. We drove again through some amazing scenery, high mountains of 1500m or more, climbing up from the sea level to a dry, semi desert like countryside. I forgot to mention the temperatures all these days were very hot, officially 3...
Cape Town 1 and 2
We have arrived in Cape Town on Tuesday afternoon during a big wind storm! It took one hour of maneuvering our ship in with a help of 2 tugboas boats pushing and pulling...We then boarded a bus for a sunset tour of the city, spectacular views from the Signal Hill and mid station of the Table mountai...
Durban south africa
Durban is the 3rd largest SA city after Cape town and Johannesburg. It is pretty clean, modern, efficient and tropical. Despite the draught they suffered here, the last 2 years recovered the nature somewhat and to us it looked very lush. We noticed the jacaranda, beautiful mauve colour trees bloomin...
Richards bay, south africa
Today we had a safari trip to Hluhluwe game Reserve, second oldest parc in the world, after Yellowstone, that covered 150 x 50 km area. I was 150km away from the ship so by the time we got there we only had 2,5 hrs to search for animals. We saw quite a few. Giraffes, 2 species of a monkey , some war...
Maputo Mozambique
We have finally arrived at land after 4 sea days! We have docked at 5 am and it took everyone 1,5 hrs to clear the immigration! We were photographed and finger printed! Anyways, we have departed on our excursion around the city of 2 million people, lots of poverty around downtown and luxury on the n...
ZanzibarTanzania
On November 26 we docked in Zanzibar at 7 am. Even from our balcony ,the harbour looked interesting. There were lots of local boats called dhows, coming onshore, overfilled with people, commuting somewhere. There were people jumping into the water from the pier holding onto a ball to keep them afloa...
Mombasa
It was quite emotional for me to be back in Kenya. I have never thought I would be back here again. Of course it was very different from last time when I had few weeks, and now only one day. We chose to go on safari as I wanted Mike to see the country side and maybe few animals as a bonus. Our trip...
Seycheles
We are now past the half way of our cruise. We have spent 2 days in Seychelles in 2 different spots, Mahe and Praslin. Seychelles are huge contrast to Maldives. They are mountainous, green, lush and very quiet, with only small towns. Victoria harbour has 80000 inhabitants spread out, houses are colo...
At sea 2
We are in the Indian Ocean, we crossed the equator and we are heading towards Seychelles where we arrive in the morning of Nov. 21. The wind, strong current and rough sea have slowed us down a bit but we escaped the pirates territory as far as we know. It is interesting to play games , like ping pon...
Maldives
We had two half days in Maldives, enough time to see what it looks like. The atoils are 1,5m above sea level and lie close to the equator. The sun is very strong and the ocean nice and warm. Our ship had to anchor quite far from the main town so we had to use the tender to get there. We went out the...
Cochin
I was looking forward to this place as I had fond memories of it. Kochin area is very tropical, lush, with many lakes, rivers and canals that take you into the villages along the waterways. We had a tour on a motorized boat, instead of a canoe I did last time. Less adventurous but still very enjoyab...
Goa and Mangalore
It is hard what to say about this region. Both Goa and Mangalore which is between Goa and Kochin and I skipped it on the map, are tropical, lush, hot and humid. Goa is also very touristy with nice beaches and great shopping ,which we did not get a chance to do this time. But also it is quite dirty w...
Mumbai 2
Our second day in Mumbai. Another excursion through te city. Went along the Marine drive, tall buildings on one side, empty beach on the other. The curved shape gave it a name Queen's necklace. Empty beach because during the day it is too hot and no one swims in the ocean, it is too dirty. The beach...
Mumbai
Our 1st day in India. Very hot 34 C and smoggy. We had an all day excursion through the old town, very lovely little lanes, now heritage area, luckily; museums, the famous Victoria railway station (lunch kit system we will see tomorrow as today was Sunday), had a delicious Indian lunch , visited a p...
At sea
We are 2nd day at sea on the way to Mumbai. It is very relaxing, the ocean is calm, we play quizzes, go to gym, walk, watch cooking demonstrations, read and look out for blue whales. So far only jumping fish... Some of you wanted to know our itinerary. So ere we go: Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Fujairah, Musca...
Muscat
HI from Muscat. Our last stop on this large peninsula. We are travelling by a ship., not by land. We will be leaving for India tonight and have 2 days of rest at sea. Fujairah and Muscat are very mountainous and dry. Also for us extremely hot. This is their cool season, only 38 C yesterday! We had a...
Fujairah
We have arrived to Fujairah early morning, woke up to a beautiful sunrise. After the nearly flat Dubai and Abu Dhabi we were surprised that Fujairah was located at the feet of big mountains.There was no vegetation, the mountain were bare rock. They mine the rock here and use it for creating more lan...
Dubai to Fujairah
Dear friends, Mike and I have boarded our cruise ship from Dubai to Cape town, we are settled in and enjoying the ship’s luxuries. Especially the food, lots for Gluten Free choices… Going back to Dubai. We were very happy that we chose to stay in the old town, with its narrow alleys full of markets,...
Start of our 49 day adventure
Hello from the start of our 49 day adventure! We have arrived last night after 14 hr flight from Seattle with Emirates airlines. We flew over Norway, Moscow and Tehran..We slept well in our Arabian hotel, except we woke up briefly to the singing prayers at 4:30am! We are staying in old Dubai, away f...