Category: Asia
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Postcards from Japan, part 3 – Osaka, Shimizu and Tokyo
May 12 – 15 I’m finally on the home stretch of our travel stories from Japan. This post covers our last three port stops in Japan: Osaka, Shimizu and Tokyo. If you’re just joining us, this is the third and final installment of our Viking Orion Far Eastern Horizons Cruise. For the first two posts,…
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Postcards from Japan, Part 2 – Hiroshima
May 10-11 When I think of Hiroshima, I remember August 6, 1945, and what I learned from history lessons, documentaries, graphic images and movies. That event changed the city and the world, making Hiroshima and Nagasaki centers for promoting peace. When our ship docked, we saw the city’s resilience and couldn’t imagine the past destruction,…
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Postcards from Japan, part 1 – Nagasaki and Kagoshima
May 7-9, 2025 My postings are slowing down as I get further behind. Why, you may ask? It’s because we’ve been traveling the past few weeks, causing me to pause my blogging as we enjoy many wonderful moments while traveling with friends in Canada. But that’s for a future post 🙂 Let me pick up…
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Postcards from Far Eastern Horizons – Hong Kong and Taipei
May 2-3 Let’s get back to our normal programming, after our exciting river rafting trip. Let’s see, where were we? On May 2-4, we were cruising across the South China Sea from Ha Long Bay, Vietnam toward Hong Kong. As a refresher, my last Asia post was about our cruise in Southeast Asia and our…
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Postcards from Southeast Asia – Vietnam
April 23-30 I’m slowly catching up with my postings detailing our recent Southeast Asia Viking cruise. Our first two stops were Thailand and Cambodia, click those links if you missed them. Vietnam is one of those exotic Asian countries that intrigued us to explore not just because of the many good things we heard about…
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Postcard from Southeast Asia – Cambodia
April 20-21 Sihanoukville, Cambodia Our only stop in Cambodia was at Sihanoukville, a seaside resort town on the west coast of the country named for former king Norodom Sihanouk (1922-2012). It is Cambodia’s main beach resort and a popular escape for people living in Phnom Penh, the capital city. It’s also a favorite with Chinese tourists who…
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Postcards from Southeast Asia – Thailand
Just a couple of weeks after unpacking from our South Africa safari trip, and having gotten over the resultant jet lag, here we were packing again for another adventure. This time we were heading to Southeast Asia to visit countries we’d missed during our aborted World Wonders Cruise in 2020 due to Covid-19. It was…
