Cruisin’ into History & Culture

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Taking a Cruise on a large cruise ship is a great experience. On an even brighter side… it’s even more enjoyable if you are not prone to getting sick on the high seas. I’ll work on that.

This particular cruise took us on a Carnival Lines Ship, the Glory. I had been on Carnival’s Fantasy before and this was much bigger.

Fantasy was 80,000 tons and the Glory was 110,000 tons of fun. This cruise took us to the western Caribbean…. Leaving from Port Canaveral and stopping at Cozumel, Belize, Costa Maya,

Progresso, and Key West. The food was great too!

This time we were on the Verandah Deck.

Here’s a nice sample room…

It was a lot of fun and the ports of call were a mix of Mayan History and local customs and culture.

The Ship was great and shore excursions were a lot of fun. Seeing the Mayan ruins was too bad either.

A great Vacation…

 On the flip side… It was our first time to see what third world countries look like. Near the port is very nice and the surrounding area, the local town near the port are fairly nice with a mix of grand homes & estates and fairly nice normal housing and businesses… beyond the port town and into the outer areas… well… the it’s almost hard to imagine…. and the soldiers that manned the entrance/exit from the port… I wasn’t sure if they were guarding the port from the locals, or the locals from visitors at the port… neither thought is of much comfort. Certainly plan to take another cruise again, but probably not to see the old world of Mayan ruins…. or the third world of poverty. 

Our next cruise is planned… you guessed it…

on the Disney Lines… what else!