SeaDream II Arrives at St. Barths at Sunset

We arrived this evening at St. Barths in time for a beautiful sunset! SeaDream II is hosting a Caribbean cocktail hour followed by dinner under the stars (also with a Caribbean motif). After everyone's enjoyed a delectable meal, they'll be a movie under the stars as well (Good Evening, New York City starring Paul McCartney).

Caribbean Madness Cocktails

Champagne Always Flows Freely on SeaDream II

Cocktail Hour By the Pool

More Cocktail Nibbles

Tomorrow we'll stay at St. Barths all day. Our plan is to wake up early and go to Shell Beach with Amy Boothman (activities director) at 7:30 am. Let's hope we hear the alarm go off in the morning!

—Andrea M. Rotondo for LuxuryCruiseBible.com

Photos courtesy of Leonard Hospidor

Day 5 Aboard SeaDream II: Saba

This morning we visited Saba. It's definitely an off-the-beaten-path destination. There are no beaches here and the roads are more narrow and winding than even those on St. Barths! Diving is the main draw here, but we took SeaDream's Yachting Land Adventures shore excursion, Saba Sights, to get the lay of the land.

Saba's port

The Bottom, Saba's capital

Sacred Heart Church

Signposts on Saba

Saba's Airport, with the shortest commercial runway (400 meters) in the world

The tour guide was a longtime local resident and it was interesting to learn about this tiny nation of just 1,600 citizens. The tour, in an air-conditioned minivan, lasted about 2.5 hours.

We were back on SeaDream II by early afternoon and set sail for St. Barths, where we'll overnight and spend all of Friday.

—Andrea M. Rotondo for LuxuryCruiseBible.com

Photos courtesy of Leonard Hospidor and Andrea Rotondo

Turtle Rock, Bhimbetka

This particular spot in Bhimbetka is not a cave or painting of a turtle in the cave. This is a simple rock formation in the form of a turtle. This spot is well known as Turtle Rock. (Click on the image for bigger picture)


From here we moved back to Bhopal by afternoon. At Bhopal we had our lunch and proceeded to railway station to board a train to Gwalior. From Bhopal to Gwalior is 6 hrs journey by train. We reached Gwalior by night and then checked into hotel.

Distance: Bhimbetka ---> Bhopal 28kms
Bhopal ---> Gwalior 388 kms

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