Day 101 Wednesday April 24, 2024, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Arrival: 9:00 All Aboard: 18:30 Departure: 19:00 We arrive in Port Klang, the closest port (33 KMs) from the capital of Kuala Lumpur. Port Klang is the largest and busiest port in Malaysia handling 60% of the country's container traffic. The country of Malaysia has 878 islands ,34.6 million people inhabit these islands. You know when you have had enough of touring either through the ship or private when...

Day 118 Saturday May 11,2024 Khasab, Oman Arrival: 10:00 All Aboard: 19:30 Departure: 20:00 The last two days have been spent cruising the Arabian Sea as we make our way towards Khasab, Oman another new country for us. Khasab is a town and local capital of the Musandam Governate which is an exclave of Oman bordering the United Arab Emirates at the tip of the Musandam Peninsula by the Strait of Hormuz. At its narrowest point the Persian Gulf is about 56 km (35...

Day 115 - Wednesday May 8, 2024, Mumbai, India All Aboard: 16:00 Departure 18:00 We have returned from our time in Nepal and have just a few hours to explore Mumbai again a first for us. We have a Viator half day booked with Karen and Tom. Our first stop was to the Gateway of India, an arch-monument completed in 1924 on the waterfront. Close to the gateway monument sits the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower Hotels which was part of the 2008 terrorists' attacks i...

Day 111 - 114 Overland Tour - Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal May 4-7, 2024 May 4 After a day cruising the Laccadive Sea, we arrive in Cochin. Insignia will be visiting the ports of Cochin, Mangalore, Goa ending with two days in Mumbai. During this time, Janice and I are on our second overland ship tour which will take us to Kathmandu, Nepal with hopes of flying over Mt. Everest (fingers crossed) and Janice meditating with a Buddhist priest. Arriving in Cochin we...

Day 109 Thursday May 2, 2024, Colombo, Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) Arrival: 07:00 All Aboard: 16:30 Departure: 17:00 We arrived early to Colombo to see modern buildings on the landscape. The country has two capitals with Sri Jayawardenpura the legislative capital and Colombo the executive and judicial capital. We are in Colombo with its 735K population in a country of 22.3 million. In 1948 after nearly 150 years of British rule, Sri Lanka became an independen...