This book is very surprising and particularly touching: the first page says, "I don't believe in hell." But I believe in heaven. The heaven I believe in is not in heaven, but on earth. This world should be heaven. "The cover of the blue book is a hand-drawn navigation map, from which we can clearly review her travel trajectory. The "Mir" cruise started from Yokohama Port, crossed Southeast Asia and South Asia to the west and entered the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, then sailed north, along the winding coastline of Western Europe, reached the Arctic Ocean, bypassed the isthmus of China and returned through the Panama Canal. After passing through more than 20 ports, many countries, including 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 drew a huge circle on the earth with his feet and eyes.
Before you go on a boat trip, you should thoroughly study the books on board.
First of all, I added my own explanation about what needs to be prepared for departure. Let's take a look:
1. Passport. Because many countries need visas in advance and visas on arrival, there must be enough pages. If there is not much left, be sure to change your passport in advance.
2. The yellow book is the proof that passengers have been vaccinated.
3. Boat tickets
4, 4 2-inch photos, I suggest you take more photos, in case you lose some documents abroad, you may need them when you reissue them quickly.
5. Transformer, change, credit card, clothes, first aid medicine.
There are also some small precautions for your reference:
1, Bathing is free, please bring your own soap.
2, shampoo and other detergents.
Toilet paper is prepared in the room, and you should bring your own paper towels when traveling at the port.
4. Towels: The room is ready, but you can't take it out.
The indoor temperature is 24 degrees. Please prepare plain clothes. You can't open windows at sea. Even if your room has windows, it can only transmit light, not ventilation. There is a simple reason. If you open the window and a big wave comes, you will get hurt. Therefore, the cabin on the ship is basically equivalent to the kind of restaurant room without windows, which is completely air-conditioned. Although there is an air-conditioning switch in the room, the range you can choose is to either accept the temperature of 24 degrees or simply turn it off, so you can't adjust the temperature freely. Because the air conditioner not only maintains the temperature, it is also the only ventilation hole in your room, so you can't turn off the air conditioner for a long time.
Please prepare a portable kettle, which can be used when docked at the port. Mineral water is also provided on board.
You may ask, now that the supply is relatively developed, you can buy water at any time. There are some difficulties in traveling around the world. First of all, when you move quickly between different countries, you will buy water in street shops. If you use dollars directly, many people will not accept it. Moreover, sometimes the water on the street can't be guaranteed to be clean. If you start to feel sick after drinking it, it will affect the rhythm of the whole trip.
7. There is a formal banquet on board. Please bring your own suit.
8. Please bring your own dollars, euros and yen. You can't change it on board.
9. You can't bring alcoholic drinks on board except gift wine.
There are Japanese doctors and nurses on board, and the cost of each consultation is about 5,000-9,000 yuan, which is about 400-600 yuan, which is equivalent to our registration fee. As for the cost of medicine, it is calculated separately. What if you are seriously ill? According to the book on board, the medical equipment on board can't meet the treatment. If you need hospitalization or surgery, you need a doctor's judgment before you can get off the boat for treatment. The book on the ship specifically suggests that dental treatment is impossible.
The swimming pool is also on the eighth floor, in the sunshine overtime center. There is a special sentence in the boat book, which needs to be used according to the weather. Speaking of the swimming pool on board, it has always been a powerful selling point of various cruise ships, and it will be specially rendered under the blue sky and white clouds with color pictures. Under the rough waves, people are swimming comfortably and poetically. In fact, the swimming pool on board is by no means as big as you think. You have to at least fold it in half. It's basically like a big bath. If the weather changes suddenly and there are repeated storms, sailors will cover the whole swimming pool with nylon nets and forbid entering the water.
There is coin-operated laundry and ironing equipment on the plane, which is located on the fifth floor. The specific charging standard is washing and drying, 4 yuan each time. You can buy laundry money in the lobby and bring your own detergent.
There is a beauty salon on board, located on the fifth floor, where you can get a haircut or dye your hair. The simplest haircut costs 300 RMB.
The ship is equipped with a wireless network card, which can send and receive emails by computer, and it is expensive.
Shop on board, located on the 6th floor. There are about dozens of square meters, selling daily necessities, telecommunications, T-shirts, office supplies and tourist necessities.
Smoking is prohibited on board. There is a special smoking area on the sun deck on the eighth floor.
The ship's manual requires everyone to take out insurance. Insurance is not only a life-saving cableway that you weave for yourself in the 100 days when you leave your hometown, but also, if you don't take out such high insurance, the Japanese won't let you aboard at all, and the EU countries won't let you enter the country.
Secondly, if you want to join the group, you must think globally and plan ahead.
Traveling around the world is a systematic project, and everything must be arranged before departure. It is also because it takes a lot of time to travel around the world, so there is a lot of room in advance for various arrangements. For example, we didn't arrive in Mexico until the end of this trip, but we had to book all the arrangements such as air tickets, accommodation and car rental before leaving Beijing. It takes about four and a half months in advance from placing an order and paying the full amount to actually starting this voyage. In order to save money, we all book cheap air tickets, and once such air tickets are booked, we have to pay the full amount, otherwise we can't guarantee seats. There is no turning arrow before opening the bow, and there is no retreat at all. This is not an alarmist, but a real danger. Four and a half months, there is no guarantee that you will not get sick. Even if you are strong and physically satisfied with the hard work of going for a walk and staying overnight, and you never go on strike, you still can't guarantee that you can arrive at the scheduled airport at the scheduled time. Even if it is one minute late, all tickets will be invalid. You can't change to the next flight, you must buy a new ticket. Do people have corresponding flights? Are there any seats left on the flight? If there is a flight the next day, you need to stop at the airport. It's dangerous to drag luggage to Zhao Inn in a strange place.
These troubles are only considered from the personal aspects of travelers, and the greater uncertainty comes from the sailing ships. Any mechanical accident and drastic changes in the weather at sea may delay the shipping schedule and make all your careful work go to waste.
Returning to the cruise ship is also full of risks. You must arrive at the port on time. Even if it is only a minute late, the cruise ship will whistle and sail away. You have to find a place to live first, then buy a new ticket and fly to the next port to catch the boat. If it's another mistake, you can keep chasing.
Next, is the beginning of the real voyage. Pick some features to share:
Speaking of Holland, a large area of colorful tulips will appear in front of our eyes, and windmills will appear a little further behind the tulips. She showed us the largest flower auction market in the world, the flower auction site in Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. Whether a flower blooms in Beijing or Paris, or is in bud in Paris and withers in Cairo, is decided in that market. This is the most fragrant place in the world. But the most famous red light district is also in Amsterdam, where you can watch erotic performances. Pay attention to erotic performances, not erotic performances, because the men and women performing on the stage are either couples or lovers. It's not what we think, many things are like this, so don't use your inherent thinking to infer anything, and then show all your emotions or feelings after you really understand it.
In Cuba. The most expensive and best cigars in the world are Havana cigars from Cuba.
Take this opportunity to see how really good cigars come from books: to make a Cuban cigar, you need five kinds of tobacco leaves. The outermost layer of tobacco leaves is called tobacco skin, which is covered with a cigarette core. Each layer is different, and the seemingly unified cigarette core consists of four components, which can't be sloppy at all. The picked cigar leaves should be dried in situ. They should be hung on the wood of some wooden houses with stripes, waiting for the wind in the field to dry their water. Of course, they should be baked by the heat of the sun, that is, dried in the shade. After about 50 days, the tobacco leaves faded from the original yellow to brownish red. Then the first fermentation takes 30 days, and the tobacco leaves are hung in bundles, about half a meter from the ground. When the color of tobacco leaves is pure, it is humidified. Then classify and screening, and then carry out secondary fermentation. This time it will take 60 days, and the cigar leaves will change wonderfully, the taste and smell will become mellow, and the impurities will be removed. Then put the tobacco leaves on the partition, air-dry for a few days, and then wrap the tobacco leaves with palm skin that can fully maintain the taste of cigar tobacco leaves. These tobacco leaves need to be stored for a whole year, humidified again, dried again after humidification, and then the meridians on the tobacco leaves are removed, and finally the tobacco leaves are classified according to their size, color and appearance.
Then cigarettes. The console must be made of mango wood to ensure that the cigar has no peculiar smell and only contains fruit fragrance. At the time of cigarette core, cigar makers use at least three kinds of tobacco leaves, which are placed in parallel in the hands of cigar makers and do not cross each other to form a tubular cigarette core. Then the cigar maker grasps both ends of the cigarette core, squeezes it into the middle of the cigarette core, and then wraps it tightly with the special wrapping paper mentioned above. It is said that the best cigar makers can only roll 120 cigars a day.
After the cigar is made, it should be placed for 2 1 day, in a special room with 16- 18 degree and humidity of 65%-72%, and live in a wooden cabinet with cedar wood as the inner and outer veneer. Cedar crumbs should also be added to the finally packaged cigar box, so that the cigar can keep its fragrance with Cedar, and the cigar will show the most perfect brilliance in the final combustion.
Smoking cigars also needs attention. You can't light a cigar with a gasoline lighter. The smell of gasoline will pollute the tobacco flavor of cigars. The best way is to light a cigar with a cedar stick. In the box of Cuban cigars, a thin cedar chip will be attached. When necessary, gently tear off a small piece, first light the cedar stick with a lighter, and then light the cigar calmly. When smoking, gently turn the cigar, let the flame of cedar contact with the cigar, and let them burn fully together. If there are not enough cedar sticks, be sure to light cigars with sulfur-free matches. At the end of the smoke, never put out the cigar, but put it on the ashtray smoothly and let it go out slowly.
The best cigars in Havana are completely handmade and have a special taste. They are made of caramel, cedar, palm leaves, walnuts, cinnamon, cocoa and coffee beans by burning and smoking. It takes at least 3 years and 222 processes.
With this book, I also came to Iceland's blue lagoon, which is as charming as a fairyland, to Mexico City, which is mysterious in religion, to Nepal, which is full of rich oriental flavor, to see the surging Ganges River and the slightly luxurious pink rose city. ...
In addition to the most basic air ticket (the book says that the cheapest air ticket is 99,200 yuan), you have to pay visa fees from various countries, tour fees on the way, port fees for arriving in Hong Kong, flower insurance in Alaska, and tips of several thousand yuan, as well as telephone fees, haircut fees, Internet access fees, laundry fees and medical expenses. Bi Shumin spent 100 days crossing the river, and spent half his life saving to write it down. I can spend tens of dollars, along the seaside, listening to the whispers of the plain, which is worth it.