November 24, 2025
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We played a game "how well do you know me?" (that my girlfriend Sherrie brought me last visit) to pass the time. When we arrived in Port Vila we had to clear customs in Vanuatu and the 5 of us totally confused the officials there! We got passed from agent to agent but finally explained the whole Ship concept, as our residence, to the chief agent and he processed our entry paperwork. We then hunted down a taxi to take us to the Hotel in Port Vila. Below are shots at our Hotel MG COCOMO right on the Emten Lagoon.
Final leg back to ship - flight in the afternoon - Port Vila to Luganville Vanuatu.
MALAYSIA , on BORNEO ISLAND made palm seed oil their biggest export back in 1966 and was the top global exporter until 2008, when Indonesia surpassed them. Sadly, the resulting tropical deforestation has created major habitat losses and population declines for the Borneon Orangutans, Pygmy Elephants and Proboscis Monkeys . Many of us on the ship took tours to see these amazing creatures and I wanted to share some of their amazing photos too.
BORNEO ISLAND is a fascinating place, that I had honestly only heard of from the reality tv show Survivor. I'm still learning so much, but I had no idea it is the largest island in Asia and 3rd largest island in the World! It is a mini continent, with 3 different Countries sharing the island's land mass ( Indonesia 73%, Malaysia 26% and Brunei 1% ). We are only going to 2 ports in Malaysia now, one in each of the states of Sarawak and Sabah . Below is a video that highlights and explains thing well.
The Port of Singapore is massive and thus deserving of it's own post!