Completing Tasks and Finalizing Excursions
This week I have dedicated to completing tasks necessary for our trip and double checking our itinerary and excursions!
1. Applied for Visas.
We need Visas for:
We need Visas for:
Brazil
India
Australia (ETA)
Indonesia
Vietnam
Egypt
I decided to get us only India, Brazil and Egypt prior to departing. You can receive the other Visas onboard the ship. Therefore I need to send our passports to ZVS, along with photos, a completed application - in which I have to list EVERY country I have been to in the last 10 years, our itinerary as well as an online application and then we will be allowed to enter India, Brazil, and Egypt!
2. Extra passport pages.
I just received my passport back with extra pages added, something that I didn't even consider! My mom didn't need extra pages added.
I just received my passport back with extra pages added, something that I didn't even consider! My mom didn't need extra pages added.
3. Get immunizations.
We need:
Yellow Fever
Hepatitis A and B
Typhoid
Tdap - Tetanus, Diphtheria and Pertussis
Flu Shot
Malarone pills for malaria and a whole bunch of DEET!
MMR - the County Health Department told me I needed that this!
The Health Department also told me I needed a Polio booster??
4. Finalizing the excursions.
I have found these wonderful people on Cruise Critic, my new cruising companions! They are awesome! There are several people on their 4th, 5th, 7th, 9th World Cruise! I want to be just like them when I grow up! I have met so many new people! It started out as just introductions, and then turned into this wealth of information, from what to bring, to where to stay in Florida, and, most importantly, what to do in each place we visit!
There have been many people who have organized tours in the different cities and I have asked for us to be added to these various tours! One benefit of these tours is that you are going with a very small group of people on a self organized tour that costs a fourth of the cost of the Holland America excursions. The negative is that the ship could leave without us if our tour group does not return to the port on time! Yikes!
So therefore, I have been in contact with people in Australia, Egypt, India, Italy, Antarctica, Spain, Buenos Aires, Greece, Vietnam and I am sure other places too! My email dings at all hours of the day and night with emails ensuring times, cost, and availability of tours all over the world!
The tours I have organized are in Naples and Messina, Italy. Sondra has been great in organizing the overland tours in India to see the Taj Mahal and Egypt to the Pyramids!! I will also be joining her in Athens, Cairns - the Great Barrier Reef, and Sydney! Alan has organized tours in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Barcelona and Seville. We will be joining Pauline and more CC members in Chile and Athens. Then in Tahiti, Lembar, Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh we will be traveling with Louise and her group! As you can see there are many people involved in planning!
We need:
Yellow Fever
Hepatitis A and B
Typhoid
Tdap - Tetanus, Diphtheria and Pertussis
Flu Shot
Malarone pills for malaria and a whole bunch of DEET!
MMR - the County Health Department told me I needed that this!
The Health Department also told me I needed a Polio booster??
4. Finalizing the excursions.
I have found these wonderful people on Cruise Critic, my new cruising companions! They are awesome! There are several people on their 4th, 5th, 7th, 9th World Cruise! I want to be just like them when I grow up! I have met so many new people! It started out as just introductions, and then turned into this wealth of information, from what to bring, to where to stay in Florida, and, most importantly, what to do in each place we visit!
There have been many people who have organized tours in the different cities and I have asked for us to be added to these various tours! One benefit of these tours is that you are going with a very small group of people on a self organized tour that costs a fourth of the cost of the Holland America excursions. The negative is that the ship could leave without us if our tour group does not return to the port on time! Yikes!
So therefore, I have been in contact with people in Australia, Egypt, India, Italy, Antarctica, Spain, Buenos Aires, Greece, Vietnam and I am sure other places too! My email dings at all hours of the day and night with emails ensuring times, cost, and availability of tours all over the world!
The tours I have organized are in Naples and Messina, Italy. Sondra has been great in organizing the overland tours in India to see the Taj Mahal and Egypt to the Pyramids!! I will also be joining her in Athens, Cairns - the Great Barrier Reef, and Sydney! Alan has organized tours in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Barcelona and Seville. We will be joining Pauline and more CC members in Chile and Athens. Then in Tahiti, Lembar, Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh we will be traveling with Louise and her group! As you can see there are many people involved in planning!
5. Start Packing.
I have 2 pairs of tennis shoes, an umbrella, an over the door shoe organizer, a multi-plug outlet, and an extension cord packed in my suitcase! I have ALOT more to do!
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