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Larry our daughter used to live on the north island in Whangarei before moving to Nelson on the south island. I must say New Zealand was very green, lush and pretty but in the 3 weeks we stayed there with our daughter and doing the daily things, grocery store, meeting locals etc we unfortunately did not find the people very friendly. Never once did anyone talk to us at the checkout at the grocery store. Also we did not like the weather, it rained most of the 3 weeks and everything smelled moldy. Then we flew to Oz ..... we have many family in Australia (Sydney, Perth and Brisbane) and the people were fantastic ..... we loved our stay there. We also stayed at a Boutique hotel in The Rocks, Sydney - right across from the cruise terminal, an easy couple fo minutes walk with our luggage to our 26 day cruise. I would go back to Australia in a heartbeat .......

That underwater lounge on Ponant looks amazing!!

Wow the Quantum sounds wonderful Larry! We have a daughter living on the south island of New Zealand .... in Nelson. sounds like you enjoyed your excursions in NZ.

My dream music cruise would be with the Zac Brown Band ....... love them!!

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Just like America it depends which region of South Africa. Kruger Park has a tropical climate, rain in the summer months (Nov, Dec, Jan) - Cape Town has a Mediterannean climate, rains in the winter (June, July, August). We like to go in the Spring (Sept or Oct) or the Fall would be good as well. We stick to Spring because we go on Safari and the long dry grasses of the winter have been trampled down and eaten by the animals making for optimum game viewing from the vehicle and it's also just nice and warm. Kruger can be unbearably hot in Nov, Dec and Jan.

Hmmmm that's what I was thinking. Although we do have friends that say this is their new favorite cruise line.

I am sure they would Larry. We don't fly biz because our SA trips costs an arm and a leg without the airfare aspect. We go on safari to Kruger National Park for 3 weeks and then 3 weeks in Cape Town and surrounds ..... so a 6 week vacay is expensive. We are planning for Sept 2019 at the moment .... we were there in Oct/Nov this past year.