After flying into Wenzhou from Shanghai, we had to take a ferry during one part of our hour and a half car journey.

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Visitors either take a ferry there, or fly 30 minutes on an Aloha Island Air commuter plane that holds 37 passengers and makes 10 round-trips daily from Honolulu.

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Sunken World War II warships in Scapa Flow harbour offer fantastic diving opportunities, or take a ferry to either Westray or Hoy for spectacular cliffside walks and the chance to see puffins and other seabirds at the bird preserves on each island.

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To get there, you take a drive-on ferry, which crosses an absurdly narrow channel of water and seems to arrive before it has even set sail.

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Alternatively, take a short gondola or ferry ride from the boat stations in front of the Palazzo Ducale, next to Piazza San Marco, to the Hotel Cipriani on Isola Della Guidecca.

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The Center for an Urban Future, a nonprofit research organization, estimated in a 2007 report about Staten Island that more than 2 million tourists a year take the ferry, with few ever leaving to explore the island.

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To get your city bearings, climb aboard a Turyol tourist ferry ( www.turyol.com) and take a 90-minute Bosphorus cruise.

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Further south from Mobor, a trip across the languid Sal on a rust-bucket passenger ferry will take you to solace and solitude on magnificent Agonda Beach with its wide swathe of sand.

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The Bristol Ferry Boat Company said it saw a jump in the number of passengers as commuters decided to take the water to work rather than risk the icy roads and pavements.

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