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Beautiful weather greets us in Osaka port

We joined a ship excursion to visit couple of attractions in kyoto

First stop is the buzzling Nishiki fish market, they only gives us 30 minutes and definitely not enough time 😆

2nd stop is the golden Pavillion with temple made of gold

3rd stop is lunch at a hotel with a beautiful garden nearby so we wolf down the bento lunch and took a quick walk

After lunch we went to the famous Kiyomizu temple

This place is packed with people… Many tourists rented a kimono to come visit this temple

Had delicious canapé with our happy hour

Princess crab shack invited us back for a do over and much better this time 😋

The ship is ready for Halloween

Very rocky sea today…. Ship is facing strong head winds…. P woke up in the middle of the night sea sick…. But he was still able to caught a full rainbow right outside of our balcony in the morning… What a thrill….

Someone gave us two butterfly magnets… And we bought a googly eyes halloween thing yesterday at Keelung and voila….

The sunrise view against Keelung port is beautiful… So happy to be back even for just half a day…

The stop at Keelung was very invigorating…. Bought a lot of daily stuff, ate a hotpot lunch, had coffee, ate some shredded ice desserts, some stinky tofu, bought some bread, some mochi… Etc… We returned totally satisfied ✌️

I haven’t been back in almost 4 decades now…. Hong Kong changes a lot but in some places still stays the same..

City is still humming and buzzling…. Cant imagine living in one of those little apartment units like before…. But we do enjoy it’s cosmopolitan landscape and Harbour view….

The light show at Ave of the stars that involved 40 buildings between Kowloon and hong Kong island is cool!!

The usual activities with the same enjoyment all around…. In Zumba class I was right in front of instructor Rafa and I can totally feel his energy and that makes me dance even more merrily

The flash mob class has 4 songs to rehearse, uptown funk, beat it, all the single ladies and gunman style.. Lots of fun and lots of cool moves

Wait. There’s something new!! Learn Bon Odori Japanese dance class today. There’s the coal mine dance and squid dance… Very interesting

The ship docked at Cam Ranh and it’s 1 hour away from Nha Trang…

It’s really raining hard in the morning

Today instead of ship excursion.. We were on our own and found an on the spot assembled group tour of 12 on a mini bus…. On tours like these, the drivers usually don’t speak English but they took you to the major attractions for a fraction of the cruise ship excursion, which is fine with us

Other random street scene

Lunch at local pho restaurant

…. And then tried on the Vietnamese long dress that I finally found for $10.00

Overall, another successful outing on our second port in Vietnam

It started with a very gloomy morning…. They said it’s going to rain 100% for sure… And we are glad it did… Otherwise it’s too unbearably hot and humid….. The whole city felt like a big Sauna and it’s really baking……

However we were excited to be here in this very characteristic country and historic city… We joined the ship’s excursion and it’s a full day excursion…. Lots of getting in and out to see places and take pictures. 

Vietnamese people seem to all have a calm and sweet demeanor but they are also tough and strong and were able to fend off multiple genkhis khan’s mongols invasion and of course won many wars including with the US 😉

Sea days are always enjoyable…… Did the morning zumba, afternoon flash mob, wine tasting and then hang out with friends in crooners bar and listen to Tony Delaney singing… Its like world cruise all over again

We originally planned to go to Pattaya for this port stop but someone hijacked us to join them on a local tour to Bangkok that’s missing two people… Which is perfect!!

First stop is the Talingchang floating market which is everything I have looked for at this stop … Lots of street food, perfect vibe… Had the best tom yang soup noodles 😋

And then it’s multiple stopping at Emperial palace, temples…. We didn’t go inside because we did not dress properly and do not want to rent cloth