Day 89: 18 April – Durban, South Africa
Durban is the largest city in KwaZulu-Natal, a major port, and is only 87 nautical miles south of Richard’s Bay. (All the buses and tour guides we had in Richard’s… Read more »
Category: Africa
Days 87-88: 16-17 April – Richard’s Bay, South Africa
Richard’s Bay is the first of three ports in South Africa that we visited. Because of the political instability in Mozambique, early on in the cruise it was decided not… Read more »
Day 86: 15 April – Maputo, Mozambique
Our call at Maputo was the maiden call for Holland America Lines, and therefore for the Rotterdam. Mozambique is still emerging from decades of war. First it’s war for independence… Read more »
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 »
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 »