Posts in Tag: River cruises
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Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand
Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand are the Maori and English names for one of the largest and most spectacular UNESCO World Heritage Sites on the planet (for brevity’s sake I’ll just refer to it as Te Wahipounamu hereafter). Covering a full ten percent of the land mass of the country, it contains four […]
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Chicago River Cruise – Architecture Abounds
This is my final post from the November 2024 road trip to Arizona and back and the way things are going in MAGA land, maybe the last ever from there. In the previous two posts we visited Gateway Arch National Park in St. Louis and then Abraham Lincoln’s home and tomb in Springfield, Illinois. After […]
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Mekong River Cruise
This is my third post from the city of Luang Prabang in northern Laos, our first stop on this Adventures Abroad tour of this exotic country. In the first post we visited some of the temples that have made Luang Prabang one of the great centres of Buddhism in southeast Asia and in the second […]