Due to our size (that is the ship, not us), we had to berth at the container port, the largest in the world. It was massive! There was a shuttle service provided to the harbour front where we took the M.R.T. (Mass Rapid Transit) train into the centre of town. We eventually found our way to the Merlion statue which stands 8 metres high at the mouth of the Singapore River. It is tourist symbol of Singapore - a mythical beast said to be half lion, half fish. At th...

It was very odd backing in to dock at Laem Chabang, our port of call for Bangkok. The Holland America Line's cruise ship followed us in but went in forwards. Probably a lady driver!!!!!!! Guess whose writing this part of the blog. Any way we had a lovely air conditioned coach to take us to Bangkok along the sky road and an excellent Thai lady for our guide. Our first stop was the Sukhothai Traimit Golden Buddha image, made of pure gold and weighing approximately...

We were awakened at 5.45am by our pre-set alarm call. On opening the curtains all we could see was white, we soon realised it was thick fog. Then we felt a bump and heard voices below us, and quite disturbingly they seemed to be coming from the sea. We were worried at first thinking someone had gone overboard, but that was not the case, thank goodness. On leaving our stateroom we saw a lot of smartly dressed men all in green, we found out that the green men w...

During the evening after leaving KK we noticed yellow and white lights on the horizon. We found out from the Captain that the yellow lights were oil rigs and the yellow lights were fishing vessels. The next day we woke up with the sun shining on our balcony, so we ventured out onto it for breakfast. The ship continued north east through the Palawan Passage with the Island of Palawan (Philippines) on our starboard side, whilst we were in the Commodore Club having...

Kota Kinabalu is the capital of the East Malaysian state of Sabah in North Borneo. It used to be called Jesselton but was completely destroyed by American bombing toward the end of the second world war. It was named after the highest mountain in South East Asia in 1968. We arrived at 8.00am and tied up at the Port. Later we took a shuttle bus into town and walked along the seafront through the Central Market and Bazaar and onto the waterfront esplanade where man...