May 28, 2025
LA PAZ, MEXICO
We had a gorgegous day to explore the resort town of Las Paz, Mexico. It was nice to see other tourist walking around and not just other Ship people. The architecture was interesting, a significant amount of old, renovated and new mixed together. The streets were clean and tree lined and there was some interesting shops and restaurants. Shockingly, there was a large SEARS store and it was high end merchandise.
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We also found some Fun mural arts lining the city streets and a lot of sculptures lining the Malecon.
We wandered into some of the shops, had a late yummy lunch & drinks up on a rooftop over looking the beach and enjoyed the day!
Got to love a place that sells shirts saying " Where the heck is Yap? " Colonia ( population 3,100 ) is the Capital and Harbor town of Yap State ( population 11,600 ) one of four states in the Federated States of Micronesia. We are in the Pacific Ocean or Philippine Sea just north of the equator, Papua New Guinea and Australia.
Ternate, Indonesia, which is both the name of the city and island, and is part of the Maluku Islands in eastern Indonesia. It is a port that sees maybe 3 Cruise ships a year. However, they really made an effort to show us the best of what they can offer. It's mainly a Muslim country, and we knew we had to dress discretely, but we knew little else. We didn't have our typical port talk prior, due to a technical issue with the AV equipment. Ben a fellow resident, organized an island tour, with about 8 stops, for 90 of us residents.
Cebu greeted our Ship with a big warm welcome, despite having just been rocked by a major Earthquake, days before our arrival. The Minister of Tourism arrived with a motorcade and she proceeded to chat with the residents and thank us, for all our support.