2023 – Asia

Today is our first full day on the ship and our first excursions. When we wake up we find we’re docked, but just to a grassy bank. There’s a

Today there is no post, effectively. The main part of today’s program is a visit to one of the killing fields and the associated genocide

After lunch, yesterday, we took a bus ride to the central market. This is a huge, octopus-shaped building with stalls everywhere. The program

On many ships one occasionally gets an ‘At sea day’, when you have zero ports of call. Today, for us, will be an ‘At sea’ day, but we’re on

Until now, when we’ve wanted to go ashore, we walked some gangplank and we were there. Not so here in Vietnam. We’ll be using Sampans. The

Today is the first of the month, so we again say “Rabbit, Rabbit” first thing, for good luck. Per the calendars (that we’re seeing in the

We have our normal wake, coffee, and breakfast, but is also packing. We’ve been aboard The Lotus Navigator for seven nights, so our stuff is

In Bali they talk about having Bali Belly. In Thailand tourists strive to avoid the dreaded Thailand Tummy. In Cambodia you definitely don’t want

After the excitement of yesterday, we are a bit tentative about eating, or really doing anything this morning. I feel better, but not totally

Today dawns bright but still very cloudy. It seems we may not get any blue skies while in Lan Ha Bay. We have a quick cup of coffee and head