Days 80-82: 9-11 April – Mombasa, Kenya
After leaving the Seychelles we had heard of Somalia pirates taking a ship near the Seychelles and our captain told us that he was taking a route to Mombasa away… Read more »
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Days 75-76: 4-5 April – Seychelles
The Seychelles is a tropical archipelago paradise. Think of some of the mountainous Caribbean nations and transport them almost a thousand miles off the East coast of Africa just a… Read more »
Days 72-74: 1-3 April – At Sea
At breakfast the morning after we left Oman, Captain Olav made an announcement that because of the piracy off the coast on Somalia, we would be sailing on an easterly… Read more »
Day 71: 31 March – Muscat, Oman
Oman is very different from Dubai. Whereas Dubai is essentially flat, Oman, at least in the north where we were, has rocky mountains (OK, hills). Only about 700,000 of the… Read more »
Days 68-69: 28-29 March – Dubai, U.A.E
Ah, Dubai… What a fantasy land. Think of the Vegas Strip only much larger. The ruler of Dubai knows that the oil will run out in a few years so… Read more »