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We were married in 2008 and ahead of this event we’d explored the options for our honeymoon. We wanted to do something big and two weeks on a beach somewhere really wasn’t our thing. Someone suggested a cruise so we looked into it, had a chat with a travel agent, and suddenly we were arranging visas and working out what currencies we needed to buy.

Our honeymoon cruise was our first cruise and involved flying out to spend three days in Beijing before boarding Diamond Princess for two weeks in and around the South China Sea. On this cruise we visited Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Japanese island of Okinawa, Singapore, Vietnam, and finished in Thailand.

Nha Trang Shoreline

Nha Trang, Vietnam

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Photos and videos from a trip to Nha Trang, Vietnam on the Diamond Princess Cruise Ship in 2008 including stops at Po Nagar and the Long Son Pagoda.

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Our First Foreign Holiday

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It’s coming up for nine years since my wife and I got married and took our first, proper, foreign holiday together as our honeymoon treat to ourselves. I say proper because technically we had taken a day trip to France with a previous company I’d worked at as part of their Christmas gift to the employees. But, our honeymoon was our first trip to foreign soil of any real duration and it involved something other than a channel-hopping ferry. In fact, it involved another couple of firsts for the pair of us and those were our first trip to Asia and our first cruise. It started a bit of a love affair with that latter form of holidaying.

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