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Here we go again : Returning to the Caribbean
April 1-2 St Georges, Grenada Well, it’s finally happened: after 6 months of travel, we have hit our first repeat port. In order to get back to the west side of the Americas, the Odyssey needs to travel back through the Caribbean and the Panama Canal. Now, we haven’t done all of the Caribbean ports,
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French Guiana’s Prison Islands
March 27 Not too far off the coast of French Guiana lie three small islands. These islands can be walked around in about an hour and were home to France’s worst criminals. England had Austrailia, Argentina had Ushuia, and France had Devil’s Island. Devil’s Island – History and Facts | History Hit The prisons ran
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Blistering Hot Brazil: Belem
March 21-24 Belen is our last port in Brazil. This is not a typical cruise stop, tourists come here if they are venturing into or leaving the Amazon. It is called the gateway to the Amazon. Even where the Odyssey is anchored, you can see the estuary or mouth of the Amazon River and its
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Blistering Brazil : Recife, Olinda & Fortaleza
March 15 to the 18th Recife Recipe is a smaller city in the north of Brazil. Small being relative, there are 4.2 people who live here. The Odyssey arrived early in the morning, and we were able to disembark by 830 a M. Steve, Angela, JR, Shelly, and I headed out to explore two sections
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Blistering Brazil : Salvador
March 12th – 13th The third largest city in Brazil is Salvador. Salvador also has a higher crime rate than Rio de Janeiro. At one time, Salvador was the murder capital of Brazil. But we’ve been assured the tourist areas are safe for us to be in except for pickpockets. So we set off to
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Blistering Hot Brazil : Rio de Janeiro
March 4th to the 8th Emergency Stop It seems like, wait 10 minutes and everything changes on this boat, I guess I should call it a ship. We had originally planned to go to two different tender ports, Buzios and Cabo Frio, which were cancelled due to tendering issues, and to gain two sea days
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Blistering Hot Brazil: Paraty & Ilha Grande
February 28- March 2 Tender Hell- Gonna complain here. Okay, I’m going to take a moment to complain. Our ship, the Odyssey, doesn’t do tender ports very well, and we have a lot of them to do. Part of the problem is that we only have two tenders that are running, and we end up
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Blistering Hot Brazil: Santos
February 24- 26 Santos Santos is in the São Paulo region, which has the largest city in Brazil and is the largest port in South America. Once we arrived and I was cleared, I needed to figure out what to do. A ride into São Paulo takes about 2 hours, so I decided to stay
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