Tagged with: "Cruise: Far East 2018"

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To celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary we decided to see how close we could get to replicating our honeymoon – and first – cruise. We ended up being able to get back aboard Diamond Princess and hit several of the same ports – Okinawa, Hong Kong, and Keelung – plus some new ones – Kagoshima in Japan, Xiamen in China, and two ports in Vietnam which included Ha Long Bay – on a roundtrip from Yokohama which had a fabulous send-off for the ship.

Yokohama Sunset

Diamond Princess, Yokohama, Japan

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To celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary in October 2018 we took a cruise aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Asia, a partial repeat of our honeymoon cruise on the same ship a decade earlier. The start and end port for this cruise was Yokohama, Japan.

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Sengan-en Garden, Kagoshima

Sengan-en Garden, Kagoshima, Japan

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The second part of our day’s excursion in Kagoshima, Japan saw us visit a museum dedicated to the Shimazu clan, learn a little about the industrialisation of Japan which started in Kagoshima, visit a formal garden, and have some lunch and a distillery visit too.

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Chan May, Vietnam

Vietnam: Arrival At Chan May Port

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Day seven of our cruise aboard Diamond Princess found us arriving at the port of Chân Mây in Vietnam, the first of two back-to-back stops in the country. When we’d cruised on the Diamond Princess for our honeymoon a decade earlier we’d also visited Vietnam and made two stops then […]

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