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This has probably has the web's largest cruise database and booking system. It offers all from luxury ships and travel in first class cabins to last minute offers, upgrades, group travel and yet more. It also allows you to see different ships, deck plans and photos, along with information about each one, innovations, special interest cruises and more. You can even see your cabin. The website has a very handy section where you can read about all visa and travel information, passport requirements, weather, packing tips, etc. and a small online boutique where you can purchase some travel accessories such as phot and video cameras, sunglasses and other useful items. These are some of the exotic plces that you can visit nowadays: The Pacific Ocean, Polynesia and Oceania For webmasters and website owners whose work is related to tourism and vacationing, this site also offers partnerships. All sorts of ships have been sailing and navigating thorough the world since the dawn of civilisation. We now think about holiday cruises as something usual, but it is perhaps interesting to remember a bit about ships in general and what took us to this present situation of epicurean pleasure and comfort. The incredible thing about ships carrying passengers is that a few years ago they were considered as extinct as the Dodo bird. But the fact is that today, there are more passenger ships than there were at the peak of the transatlantic glory, and this has a lot to do with pleasure cruises. During past centuries, people travelled in ships that were not so luxurious or comfortable. The modern transatlantic was slowly developed during the second half of the nineteenth century, and achieved its glory with the incorporation first of steam engines, and then diesel technology.There have been some nuclear-powered passenger and cargo ice breakers built in the Soviet Union, mainly to be used across their arctic routes. This is understandable, since there are very few usable ports there, and no refuelling facilities. But nuclear energy never became quite popular in the seas; it is very expensive, complex, dangerous and presents a lot of political problems, starting with the fact that a number of nations do not allow nuclear powered ships to enter their territorial waters or dock within their respective jurisdictions. Before all that, passengers were generally treated onboard vessels like if they were cargo despite the fact that tickets were indeed very costly; comfort and convenience were not highly regarded and travel conditions were really bad. When the Portuguese King fled to Brazil after Napoleon Bonaparte's attack, he and his whole court had a terrible journey, and not what we would expect as treatment for a chief of state or such VIP visits. Luxury onboard, before the development of the first ocean liners and transatlantics, was almost non-existentAnd there are other myths concerning seafaring that should be exposed: while piracy was a problem, only 1 or 2% of all sea traffic ever experienced problems with them, and generally, pirates were unsuccessful. Then, the idea of boarding ships by approaching side by side, in order to attack them, was not developed by pirates, but by the Spaniards, who also invented the 'Marine Infantry' a.k.a. the Marines, whose main function onboard was to serve as police and avoid mutinies, crimes among the crew and such things. But that's a story that we will tell in another page of our site... |
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