Thread: Victories in the Pacific Cruise

This special itinerary has just been launched for March 4th - 17th 2012. Fourteen days cruising the Pacific Islands with stops at ports of historical significance including battlefields in the Pacific Wars.

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Originally Posted by shoretours.com.au

This special itinerary has just been launched for March 4th - 17th 2012. Fourteen days cruising the Pacific Islands with stops at ports of historical significance including battlefields in the Pacific Wars.

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Oh - great reminder, Hope!

I was reading about this cruise earlier this month. Somehow I got connected with one of the PR firms doing some work for this cruise.

It sounds really interesting and sort of unheard of in terms of history themes cruises.

Does Australia and the Pacific Rim get a lot of visitors interested in WWII?

Here's just a glance at the itinerary currently scheduled:

• Day 1 - New Caledonia, Depart Noumea
• Day 2 - Lifou Island
• Day 3 - Vanuatu, Tanna Island Volcano
• Day 4 - Espiritu Santo and Million Dollar Point
• Day 5 - Ureparapara Island and ‘Kastom’ Dancing
• Day 6 - Solomon Islands, Nendo Island
• Day 7 - Santa Ana
• Day 8 - Guadalcanal
• Day 9 - Tulagi
• Day 10 - Arnavon Islands Marine Reserve
• Day 11 - Ghizo and Kennedy Island
• Day 12 - Papua New Guinea, Bougainville
• Day 13 - Buka Island
• Day 14 - New Britain/Rabaul and Farewell

Darwin is the one port that was really affected by the wars and they have a fascinating history. There are a number of shore tours you can do that specifically delve into the history of the war preparations when there was a concern that Darwin would be invaded by the Japanese. Darwin is a port that is starting to get more ships through and I think as more ships head into Asia this will be a bigger port of call.

A lot of the ports mentioned above do have historical significance but due to their size are not always able to be visited by the larger ships so this is a special itinerary.

I wonder if this might be a growing market though??