| Welcome to our twenty-seventh monthly newsletter. We have kept our promise of only one newsletter a month. This month Robin and I continued into the second month of our seventy-two day Whispers of the Orient Tour, better known these days as Asia. Month two of our trip started in Phuket in Thailand, then Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Macau, Taipei and Japan. We covered a number of Japanese cities in the south and eastern part of the country. We are curently in Seoul, South Korea and will be sailling back to Tokyo, Japan later this week taking a western and northern route around the country. This has been an amazing educational tour of this part of the world. Follow Us on Find Penguins If you are interested in following our Asian trip and seeing up to date pictures we welcome you to check us out on a new App that we are using called Find Penguins. We are posting the pictures every evening after our daily tour activities. You can follow us at FindPenguins.com/cosguide4travel. This is a great new tool for documenting travels. Storing and organizing the pictures into footprints of everywhere that we have been is a free service of the App. With some minor editing, and a fee, the App will produce a great travel book to help us remember our travels. Based on the length of this trip, and the large number of photos that we have saved, it is likely we will need two books.
Highlights of our Recent Travel
During the past month we visited some great places that you can currently track on FindPenguins, and will shortly be available on CosGuide4travel.com. Here is a brief highlight of each place we visited: Phuket, Thailand – This was our second visit to Phuket, a place I only dreamed of visiting a few years ago. Instead of repeating some of the wonderful touristy places we visited on our first trip in 2023 (please see our Thailand Post if you want the details), we decided instead to have a romantic lunch at one of our favorite places in the world, The Blue Elephant. A new blog will be available next month. Penang and Kuala Lampur, Malaysia – Other than a transit pass-thru the Kuala Lampur airport in 2023, this was our first ever visit to Malaysia. A wonderful country with some rather unique rules about religion. We were amazed at the growth that this country has experienced these past 40 years, since I first ever heard of Kuala Lampur. A blog about Malaysia will be available on April 7th next month. Singapore – This was our second visit to Singapore, and this time we have created a new post which will be available tomorrow. Sinapore can be an expensive city to visit, but if you want some good budget tips, please read our new post, inlcuding how you can get around the city on the Big Bus Hop-on Hop-off tour. If you wish to read it, please just click on our home page Cosguide4travel.com and search for Singapore. Vung Tau City, Vietnam – This was also our second visit to Vietnam, and we stopped in the port that is two hours from Ho Chi Ming City (formerly Saigon). Having spent five days in Saigon in 2023, we opted for a short bus ride and visited Vung Tung City, a beach resort town an hour outside of Saigon. Our post will be available next month. Hong Kong and Macau, China – Our favorite city of the entire trip so far, is Hong Kong. We spent one day walking around Hong Kong (18,000 steps, a record), and a second day taking a ferry over to Macau. You can view our Hong Kong post here, and our Macau post here. Taipei, Taiwan – Taipei is a very interesting city to visit. Like Malaysia it has grown tremendously over the past 40 years, and today is the center of silicon chip manufacturing in the world. Our post will be available next month, so stay tuned. Kobe, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Kagoshima, Chiran, and Mt. Fuji (Shimizu), Japan – Needless to say, we have seen many shrines and Buddhist temples in the various cities that we have visited. However, the most moving places were, as you might expect, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A surprise place that also delivered the Japanese view of WWII, was Chiran, where the Kamakazi Pilots were trained to fight in the battle of Okinawa. New Website Posts In additon to the new posts already mentioned this month, we published four additional new posts on Cosguide4travel.com based on our February Travels. These included: Please check out these new posts, and please, please, please visit the Amazon gear post. If you click on any of the displays or links on this post, they will take you to Amazon, where you can maneuver to any place on Amazon to do your regular Amazon shopping. If you are planning any trips in the future, you will definitely find the Amazon Gear that we recommend will make your trip more enjoyable. Also, you will be doing us a great favor as we will get a small commission while you will get the same or better Amazon pricing, helping us offset the costs of our new marketing partnership. Future Travel
In April we will complete our tour through the Orient. Stay tuned for updates and follow us on FindPenguins. Paul Cosgrave
Cos@cosguide4travel.com
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