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Peace Boat's 36th voyage left Tokyo on May 2nd 2002 and will return to Japan on August 14, 2002. We bring you here some of the highlights of life at sea and on land segment by segment.

Jul 19 2002/Updated

Port of Call-Ponta Delgada, Portugal-July 3rd

A nice place to chill and soak the old style atmosphere and a coffee

Three days out of Belfast, Northern Ireland and a good way out into the Atlantic Ocean we made a quick stop in Ponta Delgada, on the island of Sao Miguel, the largest city of the Azores Islands, territory of Portugal. The group of islands making up the Azores is volcanic in origin and covered in lush green foliage, picturesque lakes and bays and other natural beauty.-MORE

Port of Call-Belfast,Northern Ireland -June 28th and 29th

Enjoying our first evening at a cultural festival at the St. George Market

For all the earth we covered, looking for the story that would move us, the experience that would show us a genuine side of conflict-jaded life, it was to be found in a small second-story room in a Loyalist neighborhood of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Maybe our image of the conflict in Northern Ireland, because of its relationship with Great Britain, relative economic wealth, perhaps ingrained racial or ethnic assumptions or its proximity to the Centerof the Anglo-Saxon western civility, before we arrived somehow didn't quite measure equally to the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, the Middle East or in places outside of the West where an association with poverty or conflict comes more easily. If so, for the Global University-International Student tour that went to places off the tourist map for good reason, this mistaken assumption was surly set straight.-MORE

What's New?

*Jul 3
--Port of Call-Ponta Delgada, Portugal-July 3rd
*Jun 28-29
--Port of Call-Belfast,Northern Ireland -June 28th and 29th

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