Today we docked in Penang Maylasia and our excursion took us to nearby Georgetown We first visited the The Pinang Peranakan Mansion (Malay: Rumah Agam Peranakan Pulau Pinang) in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, is a museum dedicated to Penang's Peranakan heritage. The museum itself is housed within a distinctive green-hued mansion at Church Street, George Town, which once served as the residence and office of a 19th-century Chinese tycoon, Chung Keng Quee. The mansion contains

Today we docked in Kuala Lampur Malaysia, and we had a tour scheduled that left fairly early in the morning. Our first stop was The Batu Caves which is the iconic temple in Kuala Lumpur featuring 272 vibrant, rainbow-colored concrete steps leading up to a massive Hindu limestone cave shrine. Located just north of Kuala Lumpur, this popular site is guarded by a massive 42.7-meter (140 ft) golden statue of Lord Murugan and offers a challenging climb We climbed the stairs to the

We had the day to ourselves in Singapore today and it was a scorching hot day. We decided to take the cable cars over to Sentosa Island where there are beach areas, Universal Studios, a water park and other attractions. We mostly wanted to get the aerial view of the city. We didn't expect that the cable cars would not be air conditioned and it was awfully hot but the rides were short. We purchased tickets online and took the Mt Faber line over to Sentosa island and then switc

We arrived in Singapore at around 10 this morning. We pulled in to the Harbor Center which is the cruise terminal for smaller ships. There is a beautiful bridge in front of the skyline. Today we had 2 different excursions from our ship into Singapore. We started the day with an excursion from the ship that would give us highlights of Singapore. First we had to get through immigration and customs at the port. That consisted of a relatively short line where we had to scan our p

Today we have a sea day as we sail towards Singapore. Clocks changed overnight and we got up a little bit early so that Shawn could attend a Pilates class. We got a malfunctioning safe in our room replaced and then both went back up to the gym to exercise - Shawn on the treadmill and Conrad on the bike. Afterwards we had showers and headed to La Veranda for lunch. We are planning a lazy afternoon before going to one of the speciatly restaurants - Prime 7 for dinner. Pretty ty

Today we arrived in beautiful Ko Samui Thailand. We anchored offshore and took a tender to the dock where we boarded another ship to take us snorkeling. View of our ship from the tender We traveled about 45 minutes in very blue beautiful water to a coral reef just off of a small island. Once we arrive to our location, we were given snorkel gear and we were able to snorkel by the coral reef for about an hour. We tried a new underwater camera that we ordered from Amazon before

Today is the day that we leave the Shangri-La Bankok and move to the Regent Seven Seas Navigator. We turned in our bags at 8:30 but had some time to hang around the hotel before our bus left at 12:30. We had one final lunch in our favorite spot overlooking the river and then got on a bus that took us to the port city of Laem Chebang. It is an industrial port about 3 hours outside of Bankok (with traffic). We were able to board the ship and get our luggage unpacked, tour the s