Overview of trip

Oceania Insignia’s 2023 Around the World (ATW) In 180 Days cruise was divided into 8 segments. The roughly 650 passengers were served by about 400 crew members, making it one of the smaller ships in Oceania’s fleet, allowing us to enter smaller ports and cruise through smaller channels (e.g. in Antarctica for example). About 400 of the 650 passengers were ATW stalwarts; the other 250 joined at and for various segments.

The segments were:
1.Pacific Panorama (from San Francisco to Santiago de Chile)
2. Antarctic Explorer (from Santiago to Rio de Janeiro)
3. Atlantic Expedition (from Rio to Cape Town, South Africa)
4. Safaris and Global Gems (from Cape Town to Dubai)
5. Far East Legends (from Dubai to Singapore)
6. Southeast Asia Array (from Singapore to Bangkok)
7. Spiritual Shrines (from Bangkok to Tokyo), and
8. Aleutian Bridgeway (from Tokyo to San Francisco).

The first book covers the first four segments (from San Francisco to Dubai). The second book covers the last four (from Dubai to San Francisco).

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