Small Ship Touring
Small-ship tours give you the best of both traveler worlds: a new destination to explore every day; with a safe, familiar, home-away-from-home place to sleep each night. An added benefit is that you only have to unpack and pack once, yet you’ll travel to more locations — spaced farther apart — than you could by almost any other means of transportation.
And small-ship cruises will take you into off-the-beaten-waterway areas that bigger cruise ships aren’t able to visit — without sacrificing the comfort of those larger vessels.
Just scroll through the wide variety of Adventure Collection’s small-ship tours below. You’ll find that you could see the antiquities of Egypt by floating the emerald waters of the Nile, the river from which so much of this ancient civilization draws its life and inspiration. Or you may sail south to Antarctica on ice-strengthened ships — complete with lounges, libraries, bars, and private baths. You’ll weave in and out of celebrated ice and sea-mountain passages, and Zodiac ashore on the Antarctic Peninsula, South Georgia Island, and the South Shetlands to hike, study, and photograph crabeater, Weddell, and leopard seals; pods of orcas; and fleets of seabirds.
Or you might take a small ship cruise through the Galápagos Islands on a private yacht, stopping at a different island every day. Wildlife in this exceptionally remote environment has evolved in isolation from the rest of the planet, with creatures unlike those found anywhere else on Earth — some are even “island specific” within the Galápagos. You’ll witness blue-footed boobies performing their courtship dances, prehistoric giant tortoises wandering the hillsides, and sea lions frolicking in the surf.
Being gently carried aboard an elegant, intimate ship from destination to destination; strolling off into remote areas and towns to make your explorations; but always knowing you have the same, comfortable place to come back to at night. Sounds like the kind of world an adventure traveler would dream up.
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