A slide-show video of the beautiful Marshall Islands

Palau, officially the Republic of Palau, is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, some 500 miles east of the Philippines and 2,000 miles south of Tokyo. It is one of the world's youngest and smallest sovereign states.

A slide show video of Samoan scenery and culture

Veendam Chief Officer Jochem Bakker has made another time-lapse video of the ship transiting the Panama Canal. He managed to tape the entire transit, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, which takes most of a day in real time.