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Good evening. Back at sea after a day visiting Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Docked alongside Crystal Serenity today so maybe one of Roy’s old ships. Rode about and hour from port to Kuala Lumpur to visit the temples. It’s Ramadan so many Hindus’s fasting and visiting temples and climbing the 278 stairs to worship at the several temples in the caves. Saw the gates and entranceways to the Kings Palace with it’s standing and mounted sentries. Saw Independence Square where they gained independence in 1957. Dinner at Chefs French Table followed by a lady from Australia who did an outstanding job of performing songs from the 60’s folk music scene. The skyscraper towers use to be the highest in the world but hearsay says Dubai has the highest. 👏👏 Clocks back an hour tonight. Sea day tomorrow before our next port Sabang, Indonesia. Life is fantastic and enjoying our first world cruise. Thanks for the reports and post. Bruce

Bon Voyage!

Not much time here on dinner and entertainment but here are some pics from our fantastic visit to Bay Gardens and Flower Dome in Singapore today. x in TV

Nice Itinerary. Bon Voyage!🛳️🍾

Just a few pics from last night’s water light show in Singapore.

It was a busy day yesterday. Over 15,000 steps two excursions that the second got us back to ship at nine PM. The nightly water light show was fantastic. Right now it’s up early to get ready for today’s excursion. Hitting some sights we didn’t see yesterday. We sail at five today. It will be fun to see our new pax trying to find their way around the ship. It was also nice to not see our bags in the hallway last night. We will finally need to attend the life boat drill today. Enjoy your evening. Bruce

For the foodies here is what we enjoyed at our Chef’s Asian dinner last night. Very good and great wine pairings.

It’s 5 PM here and will be looking at TGIF tomorrow and our arrival to the most expensive city in the world. We’ll have an overnight and two full days of excursions. The seas were glassy today. This will be our last full segment before we start our 34 day detour around Africa after Dubai. We’ll have approximately 630 guest on this next leg then the ship will be all ours. Figure around 120 but that will drop even more when many of us go on a mini safari starting in Port Stanley. We’ll fly out of Capetown to Wavis Bay to rejoin ship. It’s off to cocktails and tonight we dine with our Canadian friend in Aqualina the Italian specialty restaurant. Thanks for the reports and post. Bruce

Last night’s Chef’s Asian Table on Onward.

Good evening. Ready here for Happy Hour then dinner for ten of us at the Chef’s Table Asian Dinner. Today we visited Koh Samui and island off the Thailand coast that is famous for its Big Buddha and shrines and beautiful beaches . It was a short tender stay 8-2 and back to sea. Tomorrow is a sea day then we overnight In Singapore. Day 2 in Singapore we start a new segment. See if you can find the cat sleeping in one of the small tabernacle temple. Thanks for the reports and post. Bruce

Today we visited Koh Samui a popular island beach resort off the coast of Thailand. Known for its beautiful beaches and Big Buddha. A short tender port of call as we arrived at 8:00 and left at two.Tomorrow is a day at sea then we will overnight in Singapore and start our next segment. Last night’s dinner was a huge success and tonight it’s back to more fine dining at the Chef’s Asian Table dinner.

Thanks for the feedback, No matter which line it would be very hard to leave my friends on the Daily. Just getting up so we can explore, Ko Siam, Thailand. Hope you have had a nice day. Bruce

Iv’e been questioning this; is it OK that I still keep posting from our different cruise line experience to a Hal audience? The best decision we made is not let loyalty decide your cruise line decisions but what works to recharge. The experience! Our experience with Hal has been fantastic and we love the Hal Community. Love the Daily. Bruce

What a beautiful evening on the Coral Sea. Our under the stars Tuk Tuk Dinner has been spectacular. Doesn’t get much better with the lighted lanterns swaying in the beautiful cooling breeze.

What a beautiful setting and the food has been fantastic. Nice breeze, light lanterns swaying in the wind. Doesn’t get much better then this.

Last night on the Onward we were bussed to Bangkok’s huge outdoor Cultural Museum Ancient City greeted with Thai Canapés and drinks. Watched five different cultural dance acts including Thai Boxing. Each of our chairs were decorated. We then enjoyed fireworks and couples/singles we’re offered an alighted wish basket made our wish and put the arrangement afloat. There was a steady breeze that made for comfortable evening weather wise. It was an AzAmazing Evening and it felt like most of the guest participated. We left Bangkok this morning enjoying a day on the Coral sea. Tonight we all have the choice of dining under the stars. It’s Tuk Tuk Dinner Night. Will they have a real Tuk Tuk?

Up early for some reason but will have some coffee and enjoy our 8:00 AM sail way from Bangkok. Have to share about our flight from Siam Reap Cambodia to Bangkok. Siam Reap has this beautiful brand new 1 billion dollar+ airport. We left the city of Siam Reap at 6:30 AM for the 50 minute ride to the new airport. We arrive and there is no traffic, no people and we walk into check in counter nada except see 1 person behind a counter about thirty counters down. Yup that’s Bangkok Air. We go up check in takes 3 minutes. Head for security and we are only folks being screened. Remove belt, watch, take out I Pads and that is done in three minutes. Walk into main area that has this beautiful Golden centerpiece. Walk through the entire facility to gate no people get to gate and only 1 young lady is waiting. The tarmac is empty except an occasional sweeper goes by. Around boarding we finally have a few people gathering. Boarding time we come out get on a bus and arrive at our plane which was a small probably 50 pax prop job. Can’t remember when we last flew in a prop plane. We take off on time. Flight attendants bring all of us a cold chicken noodle salad like dish with a mango cake desert, bottle of water and coffee ot tea. Left Cambodia 9;30 and we’re back on ship In Bangkok at 11:45 AM in time for lunch. We will most likely never have such an easy peasy flight experience like that again. We believe the new airport was built for the large influx of Chinese that were visiting Angkor War pre Covid. Since Covid the Chinese have not returned to pre Covid levels.

Just returned from our Azamazing Evening. Each guest chair decorated, Thai canapés and drinks. Dancers and five acts with Thai Boxing followed by fireworks and then we were given a lighted float to each couple or single to make a wish and float the lit candle down the waterway. Welcomed back to ship with champagne and the ships orchestra playing on the dock. Special cruise line. Midnight and time to retire. Thanks for reports and post. Bruce

Were home onboard the Azamara Onward. Tonight they are busing us to Bangkoks outdoor cultural and museum center for an evening of culture, food and hopefully iced wash cloths to cool us down. The outside portion will be hot for this Azamazing Evening. Bangkok Harbor on a hot poor air quality day

Up and headed to airport to fly to Bangkok and rejoin ship. Happy Easter!

Headed to bed it’s 8:00 PM Sunday here, as we will be up early to fly to Bangkok and return to our ship Azamara Onward. On this Easter Day here we felt so Blessed at sunrise and throughout the day to be able to do this. A few of our sweltering day sights. . Goodnight and Happy Easter everyone. Bruce

An amazing sunrise and another sweltering day at Angkor Wat. 36C and humid. Guides saved us with filtered ice cold bottled water and mentholated iced wash cloths. Got up at 4:30 AM to experience sunrise. Back to Onward tomorrow in Bangkok so we can attend a Azamazing Bangkok evening. Pics are from our day two here. Bruce

Bon Voyage!🛳🍾

Sunrise at Angkor Wat was spectacular.

Out for drinks and dinner. So here some pics of our day in Angkor Wat. Bruce