The book is very surprising, and particularly emotional: the first page reads "I don't believe in hell. But I do believe in heaven. The heaven I believe in so strongly, it is not in heaven, only on earth. Earth is supposed to be heaven." The blue book jacket is unfolded with a hand-drawn nautical map, from which we can clearly review the trajectory of her travels, the cruise ship "Peace" from the port of Yokohama, Japan, westward through Southeast Asia, South Asia, into the Red Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and then sailing northward, along the curved coastline of Western Europe, up to the Arctic Ocean, around the isthmus of Central America, through the Panama Canal and back. Panama Canal and back. After more than twenty ports, many countries, Japan, Vietnam, Singapore, Oman, Jordan, Turkey, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, the United States, Venezuela, Panama, Guatemala, Mexico, Canada, Vancouver, Greenland, Italy, Spain, Egypt and so on. It can be said that Bi Shumin used her feet and eyes to draw a huge circle on the earth.
Before you go on a boat trip, study the boat book thoroughly.
First of all, what needs to be prepared for departure, but also added their own explanations, we also look at it together:
1, passport, because many countries need to advance visas and visas on arrival, so there should be enough pages, and if there is not much left, you have to go to the passport change in advance
2, the yellow book, that is, the passenger has been vaccinated with a certificate
3, the ship's ticket
4, four 2-inch photos, it is recommended that you still bring a few more photos, in case you lose some documents abroad, a quick replacement may be useful
5, transformers, change, credit cards, clothes, emergency drugs
There are also some small notes, ready to refer to:
1, the bath fluid is free of charge, the soap, please bring your own
2, Shampoo and other detergents self-prepared
3, the room prepared hand towels, travel by the port place self-prepared paper towels
4, towels: the room is prepared, but can not be taken out of the room.
5, the indoor temperature of 24 degrees, please prepare civilian clothes. The sea is not allowed to open the window, even if your room has a window, it can only let in light, can not let in the wind, the reason is very simple, if you open the window, a big wave hit over, you hurt you. Therefore, the cabins on the ship are basically the equivalent of those windowless restaurant booths that rely entirely on air conditioning. While the room is equipped with an on/off switch for the air conditioning, the range of choices you can make is to either accept a temperature of 24 degrees or simply turn it off, with no freedom to adjust the temperature. Because the air conditioner not only maintains the temperature, it is also the only aperture of air exchange in your room, so you can not turn off the air conditioner for a long time.
6. Please prepare a portable water bottle, which can be used when docking at the harbor, and mineral water is also sold on board.
You may ask, now the supply are more developed, you can always buy water ah. This is difficult when you are traveling around the world. For one thing, when you are moving quickly between different countries, you can buy water from street stores, and many people won't take it if you use dollars directly. Then again, sometimes the water on the streets is not guaranteed to be clean, and if in case you start to get sick after drinking it, you will bring pain to yourself not to mention that it will affect the pace of the real trip.
7, there are formal banquets on board, please bring your own formal dress.
8, please prepare your own dollars, euros, yen. The ship can not be exchanged.
9, can not bring alcoholic beverages on board, except gift wine.
There are Japanese doctors and nurses on the ship, and the fee for each consultation is about 5000-9000 RMB, about 400-600 RMB, which is our registration fee, and as for the medicine, it is calculated separately. What if I am seriously ill? The ship's book says that the ship's medical equipment is unable to meet the treatment, and if hospitalization or surgery is necessary, a doctor's judgment is required for treatment on board. The ship's book specifically suggests that dental treatment is not possible.
The swimming pool is also located on the 8th floor, in the center of the Sun Plus. The boat book specially urged a sentence, need to be used according to the weather conditions, talking about the ship's swimming pool, has always been a variety of cruise ships, a strong selling point, will be deliberately rendered in colorful pictures in the blue sky and white clouds, in the raging waves surrounded by people in the restful swimming, full of poetic. In fact, the ship's swimming pool is by no means as big as imagined, you have to take a minimum of a discount, basically like a large bath, if the weather suddenly changes, the wind and waves iterated, sailors will use nylon nets to cover the entire pool, prohibited to go into the water.
There are coin-operated laundry and ironing facilities on board, located on level 5. The exact rates are $4 per wash and $4 per dry, with laundry coins available for purchase in the lobby along with your own detergent.
There is a beauty salon on board, located on the 5th floor, where you can get your hair cut or colored. A simple haircut costs 300 RMB.
There is a wireless Internet access card on board, which allows you to send and receive emails from your computer for a small fee.
The small store on the ship is located on the 6th floor. There are about dozens of square feet, selling daily necessities, telecommunications, t-shirts, office supplies and travel essentials.
Smoking is not permitted on the ship, and there is a special place for smoking on the sun deck on the 8th floor.
The ship's book requires everyone to be insured. Insurance is not only a life-saving rope that you weave for yourself during the 100 days or so you are away from home, but also, if you don't have this kind of high insurance, the Japanese won't let you on the ship at all, and the EU countries won't let you enter the country.
Secondly, to join a tour, you have to have a global mindset and plan ahead.
A world tour is a systematic project, and everything has to be organized before you leave. And because the world tour is very time-consuming, all kinds of arrangements in advance to play a lot of leeway. For example, when we arrived in Mexico towards the end of the tour, we had to make all the arrangements for airfare and car rental before we even left Beijing. From the time you place your order and pay for your ticket to the time you actually start the voyage, it's about four and a half months in advance. In order to save money, we booked cheap flights, which require full payment once booked, otherwise there is no guarantee of a seat. There is no turning back, no refunds at all. This is not an alarmist statement, but a real danger, you can't guarantee that you won't get sick in 4.5 months, and even if you're steeled and your body is fully satisfied with the hard work of traveling at dawn and at night and never strikes, you can't guarantee that you'll be able to get to a certain airport at the time you've booked. Even if you are just a minute late, all your tickets are null and void. You can't change to the next flight, you have to buy a new ticket. Does the person have a corresponding flight? Are there any seats available on the flight? If there is a flight only the next day, you need to stay at the airport, unfamiliar with the place, dragging the luggage Zhao Inn, dangerous.
These hassles are just from the traveler's personal side, the bigger uncertainty comes from that ship underway. Any mechanical mishap and drastic change in the weather at sea can cause a delay in the ship's schedule and undo all your meticulousness.
Returning to the cruise ship is just as risky. You have to get to the port on time, even if it's only a minute late, and the ship is blowing its whistle and riding the waves, so you'll have to find a place to stay, then buy a new plane ticket and take a flight to the next port to catch up with the ship. If it's another misadventure, you just keep chasing.
Next, it is the beginning of the real voyage, pick a few characteristic share:
As soon as we say Holland, our eyes will immediately appear in front of a large swath of colorful tulips, as well as tulips behind the windmills appearing a little farther away from the place, she showed us is the capital of the Netherlands, Amsterdam, the world's largest floricultural auction market in the flower auction scenario, a flower, a flower. Whether a flower blooms in Beijing, or blossoms in Paris, or buds in Paris and fades in Cairo, it's all decided in that market. It is the most fragrant place in the world. But the most famous red light district is also in Amsterdam, where you can watch erotic shows, note that it is erotic shows, not pornographic shows, because the men and women who perform on stage are either couples or lovers. It's not what we think it is right, a lot of things are like that, so don't extrapolate anything with your inherent thinking, show all your emotions or feelings after you really know it.
Onto Cuba. The most expensive and best cigars in the world are Havana cigars from Cuba.
Take the opportunity to read from the book to see how a really good cigar comes: the production of a Cuban cigar, a **** need five kinds of tobacco, wrapped in the outermost layer of tobacco, called tobacco skin, and wrapped in the inside of the core, each layer is not the same, seems to be a unified core of the smoke, consisting of four kinds of components, can not be sloppy at all. Picked cigar leaves, drying on the spot, to be in some small wooden house with horizontal bars, the cigar leaves hanging on the wood, waiting for the wind in the field to dry their moisture, and of course the heat of the sun's scorching, that is, shade drying. After about 50 days, the tobacco leaves lose their initial yellow color and turn a brownish-red color. Then the first fermentation, which takes 30 days, the leaves are hung in bunches, about half a meter above the ground, to wait for the color of the tobacco to become more pure, after which it is humidified. Then comes the grading and selection process, followed by the second fermentation, which is longer this time, taking 60 days, and the cigar leaves undergo a wonderful transformation, with a mellow taste and smell, and the removal of impurities. The leaves are then placed on dividers and air-dried for a few days, after which they are packed in palm bark, which retains the full flavor of the cigar leaves, and are cellared for a full year, humidified again, and after that, dried again, and then the meridians are removed, and finally graded according to the size, color, and appearance of the leaves.
Then the cigarettes are rolled. The operating table must be made of mango tree wood to ensure that the cigars are free of off flavors and contain only fruity aromas. To roll the wick, the cigar maker uses at least 3 types of tobacco, which are first placed uncrossed and parallel in the cigar maker's hand to form a tubular wick. The cigar maker then holds the ends of the wick, squeezes it towards the center, and wraps it tightly in the special wrapper mentioned above. It is said that the best cigar makers can only roll 120 cigars a day.
After the cigars are made, they are left for another 21 days, in a special room at 16-18 degrees, with 65%-72% humidity, and housed in wooden cabinets veneered inside and outside with cedar wood. Cedar wood slices are also added to the final wrapped cigar box, so that the cigars will continue to retain their aroma in the company of the cedar, and so that the cigars will display their perfect splendor in the final burn.
Smoking cigars also have to pay attention to, you can not use a gasoline lighter to ignite the cigar, the taste of gasoline will contaminate the cigar's own tobacco aroma, the best way is to use the cedar wood strips to ignite the cigar, in the Cuban cigars in the box, will be accompanied by a thin cedar wood slices, you need to gently tear off a small piece of the lighter to ignite the cedar strips, wait until the cedar strips of the comfort of the combustion, and then calmly Light the cigar. Turn the cigar gently, sucking on it as you go, so that the cedar flame comes into contact with the cigar and they burn well together. If there is not enough cedar to distribute, be sure to use a sulfur-free match to light the cigar. When smoking to the end, never twist the cigar, but place it smoothly on the bowl and let it slowly go out.
The best cigars in Havana are completely handmade, with a special flavor, and are smoked by burning caramel, cedar, palm leaves, pecans, cinnamon, cocoa, and coffee beans together, taking a minimum of 3 years and 222 steps.
With the book, I also came to the enchanting wonderland-like Blue Lagoon in Iceland, to Mexico City with its mysterious religion, to Nepal with its rich oriental flavor, looking at the gushing Ganges River, and the slightly extravagant pink Rose City ......
In addition to the most basic boat tickets ( The book says the cheapest boat ticket is 99,200 yuan), but also have to pay all the countries' visa fees, the participation fee for the road excursion routes, the port fee for the port of arrival, the flower insurance fee in Alaska, and up to a few thousand dollars of tips, as well as the telephone fee haircut fee Internet fee laundry fee insurance fee medical fee. It took Bi Shumin more than 100 days, traveling through rivers and seas, and spending half her life savings to write it. I spend a few dozen dollars, I can along the sea, listen to the vegetarian earth in a whisper, think it is worth it.