2025 World Cruise – Leg 4 – Mar. 6 – Mar. 26 – Tahiti to Sydney
This is a long leg – 20 days! One of the aspects of this world voyage that I like is the different climates that we experience. We have a few more days in the South Pacific Islands, and then head to New Zealand, where it will be a bit cooler. That will be a welcome relief! Have a look at the itinerary, listed below:
Day 59 – Mar. 6 – Tahiti
We’re in Tahiti – the “large city” of the Polynesian Islands. We visit the market this morning, and each buy a nice locally crafted necklace. This afternoon, we take a snorkeling tour before we say “NaNa” or goodbye to the island. More pictures can be seen by clicking on the pictures below.
Day 60/61 – Mar. 7/8 – Bora Bora
It is so interesting visiting the same place that we visited previously, but having a completely different experience! That happened to us in Bora Bora this year. We had two days here on this cruise, and had incredible experiences on both days.
Day one in Bora Bora was a very busy day with two tours booked! In the morning, we took a bus tour around the island. In the afternoon, we had a catamaran tour, and enjoyed the lovely water! Clicking on the pictures will tell the story below:
On Day two in Bora Bora, we continue to enjoy the water with a snorkeling excursion to swim with the sharks and stingrays. We didn’t see many stingrays, but we were in the water with many sharks! If you look at all of the pictures, you can see the sharks swimming with us! Later in the evening, we all wear our finest gowns as it is formal night! Click on any picture to see more for the day!
Day 62/63 – Mar. 9/10 – Sea Days
On our sea day on Mar. 9, we had dinner with Elaine and Marg in Chartreuse, followed by the show. After the show, we went to Karaoke, where some of our friends sang. We were happy being the back-up dancers!
On the second sea day, we spent the afternoon having a beer tasting at the pool with some friends. We all had been buying cans of local beer during our port stops, and decided that today was the day that we had our tasting. This evening, we had dinner with our cruise director Andrew, as well as our Assistant Cruise Director, Matthew. Andrew is leaving the ship in Sydney, and we’ll miss him!
Day 64 – Mar. 11 – Pago Pago, American Samoa
Funny thing happened today. While we have been able to get free data on our phone in every other country, when we arrived in American Samoa, we found that T-Mobile does not include data for the American Protectorate. Not that we needed the data as we had a good internet connection on the ship, we just found it funny that we received a text message informing us that data was not included in the United States of America.
That humorous tidbit aside, we had a lovely day. We were greeted with local cultural dancing on the dock before we disembarked, and our tour took us to the “sleeping camel rock” (look from left to right, with his head being on the left), a cultural wecome ceremony, and past Charlie’s house (Starkist Tuna)! A link to more pictures can be found by clicking on any of the pics below!
Day 65 – Mar. 13 – Apai, Samoa
You may be wondering why there is no March 12 for us this year – that is because we crossed the international date line, and technically “lost” a day. However, as we sail around the world, we will gain it back, one hour at a time.
We are in the independent country of Samoa today. (Of course, we did have access to T-Mobile data again, as we are no longer in the United States Protectorate Area.) Bizarre!
We had a lovely tour today, with more cultural demonstrations and a visit to Robert Louis Stevenson’s house. Lot’s of lovely pictures to see by clicking on the below pics!
Day 66 – Mar. 14 – At Sea
I just had to share some amazing sunset pics from today!
Day 67 – Mar. 16 – Lautoka, Fiji
We’re visiting Fiji for the first time. The water isn’t nearly as nice as the water surrounding the French Polynesian Islands so we select a land tour today. The culture is very similar to the Polynesian Islands, which makes sense, as the same Indonesian/Asian people inhabited these islands hundreds of years ago.
We begin our tour today with a visit to a local village, which is really a community of one extended family, still ruled by a chief. After browsing the tables filled with local handicrafts, we made our way into the pavilion. The local chief welcomed us with a (very long) welcome ceremony, followed by local dancing and food tasting. As we couldn’t understand the language of the welcome ceremony, we enjoyed watching the children sitting quietly at the back of the pavilion.
