https://calderescapes.com The Calder's Global Travels Fri, 22 Jul 2022 15:54:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://calderescapes.com/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-ce-site-icon-32x32.png https://calderescapes.com 32 32 https://calderescapes.com/posts/turkey-istanbul/ Wed, 18 Jun 2014 05:00:13 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/turkey-istanbul/ June 18th to 20th We flew out of Kilimanjaro airport at 2AM! for Istanbul.  We took the Metro and a trolley to the Sultan Ahmet historical area to our little hotel. After checking in, we went for a walk with the priority of finding some Turkish ice cream and then went to see the Basilica […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/tanzania-safari-part-deux/ Wed, 11 Jun 2014 20:36:31 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/tanzania-safari-part-deux/ June 11th to 16th and the 17th in Moshi After a better night’s sleep, (Fran has had trouble sleeping lately without AC), we went back to Lake Victoria to get some fresh tilapia at the shoreline fish market and then headed northeast on the roads outside the Serengeti through small villages, rural areas with lush, […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/tanzania-safari-part-i/ Fri, 06 Jun 2014 11:54:02 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/tanzania-safari-part-i/ June 6th to 10th – our Safari part one We booked a nine night, ten day budget camping safari in Tanzania.  This included visiting four national parks: Serengeti, Lake Maynard, Tarangire and Arusha NP as well as the Ngorogoro Crater (a conservation area).  We flew to Arusha through Dar from Zanzibar and were met by […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/tanzania-zanzibar/ Tue, 03 Jun 2014 11:51:07 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/tanzania-zanzibar/ June 3rd to 6th We took the ferry to the island of Zanzibar and were told it was supposed to be a 90 minute sailing; it was two and a half hours.  Although Zanzibar is part of Tanzania, we had to go through Zanzibar “immigration”, because it is a semi-autonomous state, like Hong Kong and […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/tanzania-dar-es-salaam/ Sun, 01 Jun 2014 19:49:49 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/tanzania-dar-es-salaam/ June 1st to 3rd Our flight to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania was delayed and after twelve hours of travel routed through Nairobi, we arrived at almost midnight.  We immediately experienced trouble getting money in Dar (as the locals call it) and couldn’t get any until the next morning at the fourth ATM we tried.  There […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/the-seychelles/ Thu, 29 May 2014 00:47:48 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/the-seychelles/ May 28th to June 1st After 16 hours of buses, trains, planes and overnight flying, we arrived in The Seychelles, four degrees below the equator and a thousand miles from everywhere.  They are in the Indian Ocean and like Hawaii, have pretty constantly nice weather, with lots of beaches.  The Seychelles consists of 115 islands […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/macau/ Wed, 28 May 2014 00:43:02 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/macau/ May 27-28th We took the MTR to the ferry terminal in Kowloon in the morning to go to Macau and paid the extra for first class to catch the 9:30 (otherwise we would have had to wait until 11:30 to pay economy fare).  The ferry was a hydrofoil. We were served tea and a little […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/hong-kong/ Sat, 24 May 2014 10:23:27 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/hong-kong/ May 24th to 28th Up way too early today to catch our flight to Hong Kong and we went to bed late that night after taking in the Symphony of Lights show on the promenade in Kowloon of some of the Hong Kong skyscrapers. Was a little disappointing as there are actually not that many […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/malaysia/ Mon, 19 May 2014 10:23:05 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/malaysia/ Monday, May 19th to 23rd Today we left Phuket; had to get up early to make the long drive back up to the airport.  Flew Air Malaysia and all went well, including departing on time, something we never experienced with the other two airlines we’ve flown with so far. We flew into Kuala Lumpur.  As […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/thailand-phuket/ Thu, 15 May 2014 06:53:07 +0000 http://calderescapes.com/thailand-phuket/ Wednesday May 15th to 19th We arrived on the island of Phuket in the afternoon and got picked up by our hotel.  It was almost a two hour drive south of the airport.  The island is 48 km long.  The weather in Phuket was overcast every day with sunny and rainy breaks which meant we […]]]>