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On the Alexander Pushkin we found a cruise brochure of Volga and instantly we knew we wanted to head on that way. Close to making a minor historical finding was our experience on board the first Volga cruise that was made up of only Americans. Ships carrying passengers from other socialists countries, European tour groups and soviet workers on vacation frequently see these waters. Continue reading →

A truly unique culture can be experienced in Papua New Guinea where you can enjoy overwhelming sights that you will not find anywhere else in the world. This country contains inhabitants from eight hundred fifty different tribes who speak over eight hundred different languages. If you want to first-handedly experience their cultures, and then better involve yourself in this way than by going on a Papua New Guinea expedition cruise. Continue reading →

What are you in to, raw vacation spots without as many tourists as the conventional areas? Traveling to the ends of the earth is done by tourists in the aim of being the first ones to reach a particular location. Ice laden Antarctica on the bottom of the world is where sightseers from New Zealand and South America will join. Continue reading →

Only in Antarctica can some research be carried out, so it has been reserved specifically as a place of science. Antarctica’s most impressive characteristic is the giant ice sheet which covers almost all of the land. It also goes out hundreds of miles into the ocean in a few places. One ice shelf, which is as big as the State of Texas, is the Ross Shelf Ice. Scientist have tracked the edge of the ice mass moving north at a speed of 1800 feet per year. Continue reading →

Despite Antarctica’s ice, snow, isolation, high winds and raging seas and for hardy types, precisely for these reasons, the continent will be visited by an estimated 11,200 people this tourist season, all but about 130 of them on cruise ships. Such a total may only be 400 people more than the number of visitors last season, specifically from mid November through February, it was still able to jump 70 percent higher than the previous 6,585 seasons that Antarctica opened itself to tourists. Some Antarctica watchers, are concerned about its environment, have warned there could be thousand more annual Antarctic visitors. Continue reading →

A valiant man who had toiled at Atigun Pass, Trans Alaska pipeline’s highest point is very much into the snow and cold. Hence, the retired civil engineer could not help but, well, shiver with excitement as he learned about the local university’s alumni association’s intention of embarking on an expedition to the White Continent, Antarctica. This made me think of it as a marvelous idea. Antarctica has been mesmerizing real explorers even armchair ones in spite of its reputation of being the coldest and least hospitable place on Earth. Continue reading →