2026 MS Zaandam Grand Australia and New Zealand Voyage.

Ninety Three days, forty two ports counting San Diego. We will miss two ports because we are taking an 8 day overland trip riding two classic Australian trains, the India Pacific and Overland trains.

See a list of posts below the map.

251229 Prayers to St. Anthony

260102 Into the Mystic

260103 Homeport San Diego

260103 San Diego Sidebars

260104 A Different but Familiar Universe

260109 Counting Dominos, Too Much Fun

260110 Aloha Hawaii

251010 Luggage Saga or Soggy Luggage?

260112 Fountain of Fire

260112 Fire Refugees (Maui)

260113 Snowbirds (Honolulu and Maui)

260118 Two Fists Full of Sea Days.

260119 American-ish Samoa

260122 Welcome to Samoa

260122 I Play Abstract Impressionist

260123 Sixty Years Together

260124 Testing My Limits, (Savusavu Fiji)

260125 In Sava the Touts ride the Shuttle Bus.

260526 Perry in Paradise. (Fiji)

260127 Just Being There, Easo

260128 Family History in New Caledonia.

260128 Colonial Hangover

260128 Escorted Sail Out

260130 Sandroing in Vanuatu

260130 Pandemonium in Vanuatu

260201 War Junk (Guadalcanal)

260201 Getting to War Junk

260203 Great Harbor, Poor Townsite, Rabaul

260204 I Just LOVE this!

260205 Aloatu and the FCC.

260206 We Are the Bank, Kiriwina Island

260207 Tok Pisin

260209 Be Mindful of the Gap

260209 Sky Rail Down

260213 Explaining Transubstantiation to Cannibals

260214 Charles was never in Darwin

260213 Unexpected Sea Day

260219 Chinese New Year Trumps Mardi Gras… (Exmouth)

260220 Freo Checkup

260221 “You’re Taking a Train Across Oz!”

260222 More Precious than Champaign… Kalgoorlie

260222 No Stoplights, no McDonalds, it must be Boulder

260222 We Pull a Hazard Card in the Train Game.

260222 Window Scenes from the Indian Pacific.

260223 We arrive in Adelaide — without the train.

260225 Adelaide Fringe

260226 The Overland

260227 Travelers (Melbourne)

One thought on “2026 MS Zaandam Grand Australia and New Zealand Voyage.

  1. Looking forward to following this adventure!
    Hope you can get the pinched nerve resolved sooner rather than later!

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