Wednesday, May 02, 2012

2012 trip continued

Here's a map of our itinerary:






After India, we stopped in Oman.
Port in Oman
 The next stop was Dubai.

Night view from Burq Kalifah, the tallest building in the world. It was featured in the latest Mission Impossible movie, except we didn't climb up the outside.

Downtown in Dubai
This was a mascot at a big shopping mall in Dubai
This was the dive shop in UAE, across the peninsula from Dubai.

I hadn't been diving in a while so it took me a minute to get going.

After Dubai we went to Mauritius. Here are the salt beds where they let seawater evaporate.

 We made it to Reunion. This was my favorite stop, I think, because it was a spectacular island and also part of France. People spoke French, it was EU, etc.
Where people live--everyone has a spectacular view of the ocean.
The coastline in Reunion




A school in South Africa outside of Durban
Sugar cane workers in South Africa outside of Durban
Cape Town, wide angle

We went diving with Great White sharks. They surfaced out of nowhere.

A big one swimming by our shark cage

Thrashing around

The penguins near Cape Town reminded us of the ones in Argentina