Today is Sunday and currently sailing through the Straits of Malacca heading for Langkawi, Malaysia. At midnight on Saturday Arcadia slipped her lines in Singapore and headed out at a speed of 14 knots, by midday we had covered a distance of 140 nautical miles. Shipping traffic is unbelievable out here, on both sides of the ship, container traffic is passing us as far as the eye can see. We were told by the bridge that over 50,000 ships pass through this Strait every year. I have never seen so many super tankers pass each other so close all going to various destinations across the world. We are having a great time visiting old and new ports, Cambodia was a real eye opener and readers of our blog were aware from our comments, that this was a port that we were not looking forward to, however, our visit turned out quite spectacular as the country is still in its infancy for tourism, but we guess not for long.
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