13/11/2023
Dubai on way home.Mall has huge cinema,ice skating rink. Water and light show over dinner.
Our African Safari
Dubai on way home.Mall has huge cinema,ice skating rink. Water and light show over dinner.
Zanzibar,beautiful hotel,own pool.vist to old stone town old fort,Freddie Mercury’s meusem.
Serengeti park game drive.Lion up very close.
Masi Mari park game drive lots beautiful animals
At Masi Mari park,game drive. Lots beautiful elephants close up and giraffe,and rhinoceros.
At Lake Nakuru ,camp and game drive.
Went to visit Elephant Centre,saw the baby elephants being fed. All orphan elephants and will be released back to the jungle parks again.
Dinner at Nariobi,finally met up with Claire after her3 weeks work.
Visited Qatar, obviously built a great many new facilities for the FIFA World Cup, and now the Expo, including a Metro system, National Museum, Museum of Islamic Art, (Which is really good), among others. It just gives Doha the appearance of a city perpetually lacking a crowd. Good architecture!
Today in Seoul South Korea, is holiday and if they wear traditional clothing they get in free to some things . Tomorrow is children’s holiday and they give their children presents and go out with the family for the day, nice holiday.
DMZ today,went through tunnels to get to North Korea and also crossed in bus. Had to be checked before and again leaving and only allowed certain times. Charged some money into North Korean dollars for friends grandson. Interesting experience.
On gondala at beach Busan,Japan.
South Korea, cultural village,
Seven hells Beppu,Japan.
Hiroshima, ruins,flame,children’s garden. Bit confronting all.
Koyasan,Buddhist retreat,Japan.
Cat station,the cat is the station master.
Cat cafe,Japan.
Dotinburie,Japan.
Much having sake tasting.
Deers at Nara park,Japan.
Japanese gardens,rock gardens, checkerboard gardens.
Bamboo gardens,Tori gates,girls in kimono,bride on wedding day.
Japanese gardens
Tokyo Japan,Picchu shop, pandas at Tokyo zoo,
Nick skiing Nazowa Onsen Japan, nearly all the snow melting after 5 days at ski resort.
Snow monkeys Japan.
Taiwan,palace,museum,gondola
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Caracol, in the Belize jungle. A fairly tough 1 hr, 45 minute drive from St Ignacio, and maybe 1/10th of the way is paved, and the rest is somewhat sketchy; although they are in the (slow) process of building a magnificent new paved road, expecting to be completed in around 5 years…. It will definitely change the experience of visiting these ruins. It’s an adventure now, but it’ll be a cruisey jaunt with a better road, as is Tikal in Guatemala or Chichen Itza in Mexico.
The four islands comprising the French West Indies, inadvertently four out of five of our destinations after our cruise was canceled : Martinique has all the French cachet, Guadeloupe is bigger, definitely need a car to get around, more down to earth, St Barth is very different, hardly know it’s French at all, everyone speaks English, everyone owns a yacht, $US is a second currency, but great tourist souvenirs! Sint Maarten is different than them all, most shops and bars are run by US or Indian people, great food, $US and Euro are the same currency in effect, notes given in one form and change in the other.. many cigar shops selling Cuban cigars to American tourists.. very rare to hear French spoken at all. It’s like going to Noosa for Melbournians, for many in the US!
Sint Maarten, and the island’s main claim to fame, it’s airport… A LOT of souvenirs feature the plane taking off/ landing motif.. We did stand in the jet wash as planes took off, maybe overrated if the jet is a small size… but larger ones create quite a sandstorm on the beach!
The view of our overnight accommodation in St Barth was a Airbnb on a yacht in the harbour/ bay, surrounded by the rich and richer. Quite the revelation was seeing a helicopter taking off and then later landing again on a mega-yacht nearby. Sint Maarten is in the hazy distance in the video. Quayside shopping is at Hermes, Prada, D&G, Versace, Rolex and Tiffany. A very ‘yachttie’ crowd. We booked our flights into and out of this island before looking at hotel prices, and due to holidays in Europe, most were booked up, or else the price per night was $1300 or more. Also one more noticeable thing is that the Windward Islands are WINDY!
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