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January 21 2025 (day1) Early this morning we anchored offshore outside Hangoa Roa, the main town on Easter Island. Easter Island discovered in 1722 by Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen. He landed on Easter Sunday 1722   and named it Easter Island. Today the island is part of the South American country Chile and the main languageContinue reading “Easter Island”

January 15, 2025 On Jan.14, I left the ship for 3 days to visit Machu Picchu, a World UNESCO site high in the Andes Mountains of Peru.  Our excursions started with an hour flight from Lima over the Andes to Cusco. Cusco is at an altitude of 11,152 feet. When we left the plane weContinue reading “Machu Picchu”

January 14, 2024 After being at Sea for Two days, we anchored in the port city of Callao. Callao is a bustling container port. There were also numerous large ocean grain bulk carriers being unloaded. Callao and Lima are basically connected. This morning I hopped on a shuttle bus to the outside of the portContinue reading “Callao / Lima, Peru”

January 11, 2024 Around 4:00 this morning we arrived in Manta the second largest city in Ecuador. For today we did not book any tours. After we had breakfast we walked off the ship. We kept following the Malecon, searching for an Artisan market. The artisan market was nowhere to be found, instead we decidedContinue reading “Manta, Equator”

January 9, 2025 Hello Readers, Today we did the Panama Canal transit. This was my fourth time doing the crossing from the Atlantic side to the Pacific side. You readers can go back in the blog to previous years and read more about the crossing. We entered the first locks at the Atlantic side aroundContinue reading “Panama Canal”

January 8, 2025 This morning we anchored at Puerto Limon in Costa Rica. As we had visited this city before, we took our time to have breakfast before we walked off the boat. It was pouring rain and 28 deg C when we arrived on the dock. We were greeted on the dock by aContinue reading “Puerto Limon, Costa Rica”

January 7. 2025 This morning we arrived at Georgetown, the Capital of the Cayman islands. After getting tendered from the ship to the shore we were deciding where to go. The waterfront streets are lined with multiple souvenir and T-shirts shops. Georgetown is littered with banks including our Canadian big banks. We flagged down aContinue reading “Georgetown, Cayman Islands”

We were allowed to set foot on the ship by 12:00 Noon. It is truly amazing that they can turn the ship around that quick, as it had come in from the previous cruise at 7 this morning. The afternoon we spent touching base with passengers and crew we met on our previous cruise. 7Continue reading “Start of the Journey”

Welcome back previous readers and new readers and followers. We have arrived in Fort Lauderdale Florida after a brief layover in Mesa Arizona to ring in the new year. For the first time we flew with JetBlue, which was surprisingly very good. Excellent service and a low price. Today we spent the day shopping forContinue reading “2025 Cor and Carol World Cruise (proloque)”

May 5, 2023 At 7 AM this morning we arrived in Praia Di Victoria on the Island of Teceira in the Azores. We had an early breakfast and got on the bus by 7:30 this morning for a trip over the Island. Our first stop was on a hillside just outside the City, a goodContinue reading “Praia Di Victoria, Azores, Portugal”