Category: Where we have been
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World Wonders Cruise Diary – Day 61 – Semarang and Surabaya, Indonesia – FAIL!
Cruise day 61 – Mar 5 By the time you read this we’ve returned to Arizona cutting short our World Wonders Cruise. It basically fell apart as far as the destinations we wanted to see – although Viking Sun is continuing with no planned itinerary. The World Health Organization has just declared Covid 19 a…
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World Wonders Cruise Diary – Day 58 – Komodo, Indonesia
Cruise day 58 – Mar 2 After another day at sea we were thrilled to get a first glimpse of the beautiful green mountainous islands of Indonesia. It’s exciting to enter a country that you’ve only seen in magazines or brochures previously, and so it was as our ship set anchor in the shallow bay…
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World Wonders Cruise Diary – Days 55,56 – Darwin, Australia
Cruise days 55,56 – Feb 28,29 For our final Australian stop we arrived at Darwin’s port around 2:00pm for an overnight stay, scheduled to leave the next day at 1:30pm. The rain was predicted at 100% upon our arrival, but we only got sprinkles as opposed to the recent huge downpours. We’ve faced the fact…
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World Wonders Cruise Diary – Day 53 – Thursday Island, Queensland, Australia
Cruise day 53 – Feb 26 This stop takes the cake as the shortest cruise stop we’ve ever experienced – four hours! To make it even shorter the ship was anchored, meaning almost an hour of that time was spent going back and forth to the island on the tenders. But on the plus side,…
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World Wonders Cruise Diary – Day 51 – Townsville, Australia
Cruise day 51 – Feb 24 This turned out to be a really good stop after an inauspicious beginning in heavy rain. How heavy? Well, the port stop we were scheduled to make the day before at Arlie Beach (Whitsunday Islands) was canceled due to heavy rain, high winds and big swells! The weather has…
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World Wonders Cruise Diary – Days 46-47 – Birdies at Sea!
Mona Liza wanted a post about our unexpected four days cruising the Coral Sea, two on our way to Noumea, New Caledonia and two back to Australia. They were her favorite sea days so far because the ocean was almost mirror-smooth with calm winds – perfect! They were also the days when we saw a…
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World Wonders Cruise Diary – Days 44,45 – New Caledonia, France
Cruise days 44,45 – Feb 17,18 Our visit here in Noumea, New Caledonia was not on our original itinerary and became a first time stop for Viking. The ship apparently re-routed here (two days of out-of-the-way sailing east from Brisbane) to allow Viking time to plan further revisions on the way to Bali, and the…
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World Wonders Cruise Diary – Day 41 – Brisbane, and Major Itinerary Changes
Cruise day 41, Feb 14 Another fairly rough night at sea due to big swells and big winds (it’s getting old) had us arriving at another big city, Brisbane (pronounced Brisbin). The approach to the dock was long and slow, as it’s located several miles up the Brisbane River from where it meets the Coral…
