long, exhausting shore excursions
May 3rd, 2005, 05:05 AM
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long, exhausting shore excursions
If you have recently gone on a really elaborate or intense shore excusion that left you eager to get back on the ship and relax, please contact me at [email protected]! (I'm a travel reporter)
May 3rd, 2005, 05:38 AM
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Hannah:
Interesting idea for an article. Quick suggestion for you: go to the Carnival board on CruiseCritic and ask people about the Tulum excursion in Cozumel (it's an 8-hour day involving two ferry boat rides and two bus rides).
Good luck.
Interesting idea for an article. Quick suggestion for you: go to the Carnival board on CruiseCritic and ask people about the Tulum excursion in Cozumel (it's an 8-hour day involving two ferry boat rides and two bus rides).
Good luck.
May 7th, 2005, 08:08 AM
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Another suggestion for you. We are scheduled to fly to Moscow from St. Petersburg on the Jewel of the Seas for a one day excursion. The total time will be 16 1/2 hours. We will leave at 8am and get back around midnight. Sounds like it would hit your criteria quite well! Sorry but I'm not comfortable using someone's e-mail address from a sight like this.
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From Belize City, we took a bus to the airport. Then flew on a Cessna for a flight into Guatemala. Then took a bus ride to Tikal, Mayan ruins in the hot and humid jungle, spending several hours there. Then a stop at a "gift shop". Then retraced the same transport to get home. It was an 8.5 hr shore excursion... very exhausting.
Jul 24th, 2006, 06:57 PM
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Don't remember the ride to Tulum to be that long. However, I do remember a native Indian engaged in telling the history of the area and of his people, and when we got there: WOW, the most beautiful beach and a fascinating temple. Beats an afternoon in a bar in Cancun IMO.
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I have also done the Tikal tour that mistik321 mentioned. It was a long tour, but worth the time. I could have used more time at the gift shop, there were a lot of really nice things there. They held the ship for us, since we were a little late getting back to Belize.
The most physically-challenging tour I ever did was a snorkel trip at the Baths in Virgin Gorda - too many people, and very very rough water. The tour consisted of going in the water at one spot, and swimming / snorkelling quite a distance to the next (against a very strong current), and back again.
I was in pretty good physical shape at the time, and was still glad when it was over.
The most physically-challenging tour I ever did was a snorkel trip at the Baths in Virgin Gorda - too many people, and very very rough water. The tour consisted of going in the water at one spot, and swimming / snorkelling quite a distance to the next (against a very strong current), and back again.
I was in pretty good physical shape at the time, and was still glad when it was over.
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