Itinerary Dates and Ports

Following is the detailed itinerary by date and port:

Jan 13 – Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Jan 16 – Aruba
Jan 17 – Santa Marta, Columbia
Jan 19 – Panama Canal
Jan 21 – Puerto Quepos, Costa Rica
Jan 22 – San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua
Jan 28 – San Diego, California
Feb 3  – Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii
Feb 4  – Nawiliwili, Kauai, Hawaii
Feb 10 – Pago Pago, American Samoa
Feb 13 – Dravuni Island, Fiji
Feb 15 – Nuku’alofa, Tonga
Feb 18 – Auckland, New Zealand
Feb 21 – Fjordland National Park, New Zealand
Feb 24 – Burnie, Tasmania
Feb 26 – Sydney, Australia
Feb 27 – Sydney, Australia
Mar 2   – Cairns, Australia
Mar 8   – Guam, Mariana Islands
Mar 10 – Iwo Jima, Japan
Mar 12 – Tokyo, Japan
Mar 14 – Hiroshima, Japan
Mar 15 – Busan, South Korea
Mar 17 – Shanghai, China
Mar 20 – Hong Kong
Mar 21 – Hong Kong
Mar 24 – Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam
Mar 26 – Laem Chabang, Thailand
Mar 29 – Singapore
Mar 31 – Phuket, Thailand
Apr 3   – Chennai, India
Apr  7  – Mumbai, India
Apr 11 – Manama, Bahrain
Apr 12 – Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Apr 13 – Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Apr 16 – Salalah, Oman
Apr 21 – Aqaba, Jordan
Apr 22 – Luxor/Karnak, Egypt
Apr 24 – Suez Canal, Egypt
Apr 25 – Alexandria/Cairo, Egypt
Apr 28 – Dubrovnik,  Croatia
Apr 29 – Koper/Ljubljana, Slovenia
Apr 30 – Venice, Italy

We are typically in most ports for one day from around sunrise until sunset or shortly thereafter with the exception of Sydney, Hong Kong and Dubai, where will be there overnight for two days in port.  While the actual time in each port varies, it is typically 7a-7p, which allows enough time to do a day trip to see the sights.  However, in Safaga (the port for Luxor), we are there until midnight, which gives us enough time to return from Luxor/Valley of the Kings, which is about 3h away.

We have scheduled tours planned for about half of the ports and we will be "winging it" in the rest of the ports.  Some of those "winging it" ports will be just beach days or planned walking tours, so we're on our own rather than in a tour (not really winging it, I guess).  And the tours we are doing are all small groups (usually 4-6 people, max is 10), all independent (i.e. none are through the cruise line) and, as much as possible, offbeat tours away from the crowds and touristy sites.