Guess it is official - I am going to China. Just got our passports back with our Visas!!
Now a ton of things to think about, most especially, clothes and how to put them in a suitcase that weighs no more than 44 pounds!!! And all this for 45 days!! I am actually thinking of packing a suitcase with what we will need on the ship and sending it ahead to Singapore.
We are heading to countries Carlos has already visited, but I haven't. But before we board the beautiful Diamond Princess on April 15, we will have a 6 day land/river package. Since we weren't sure if we would ever go back to this part of the world, we decided to add on a Yangtze River Cruise
to see Three Gorges Dam
and 2 days in Xian to see the Terra Cotta Warriors.
Here is our itinerary. More to follow in the days and weeks leading up to our departure on April 3.
ITINERARY
April 3, 2012 Leave Washington Dulles for L.A.
April 4 Fly from L.A. to Hong Kong
April 5 Overnight in Hong Kong
April 6 Fly to Xian, China
April 7 Day visiting the Terra Cotta Warriors
April 8 Visit to the Xian City Wall. April 9 Yangtze River
April 10 Qutang, Wu & Three Gorges dam
April 11 Morning visit Three Gorges Dam April 12 Fly Shanghai to Singapore
April 12 – 15 Singapore
April 15 Board Diamond Princess
April 18 Bangkok
April 20 Phu My, Vietnam
April 21 Nha Trang, Vietnam
April 23 Hong Kong
April 26 Shanghai, China
April 28 Nagasaki, Japan
April 29 Busan, Korea
May 1 Beijing, China
May 2 Dalian, China
May 4 Busan, Korea
May 6 Vladivostok, Russia
May 8 Muroran, Japan
May 10 Cross International Date Line
May 14 Seward, Alaska
May 15 Hubbard Glacier
May 16 Juneau, Alaska
May 17 Ketchikan, Alaska
May 19 Vancouver, Canada
