Flights, Transfers, and Money for Antarctica

Book your flights around two dates. Do that before you book anything else.

The Drake Passage and Seasickness: What to Expect

You cross the Drake Passage twice, on December 28 and again on January 2. Each [...]

Packing for an Antarctica Cruise in Summer

This trip runs from an 84-degree summer city to freezing water and back to the [...]

Antarctica by Large Ship: Why There Are No Landings

This voyage does not land passengers in Antarctica. That is a rule, not a choice, [...]

Choosing Your Cabin for an Antarctica Cruise

On most cruises the cabin is where you sleep. On this one it is also [...]

What an Antarctica Cruise Really Costs

The fare is the largest number, and it is not the only number. Here is [...]

Seventeen Days to Antarctica and Back

The ship ties up in Buenos Aires in the morning. The brown water outside your [...]

Montevideo: The Grill and the Graf Spee

Walk into the Mercado del Puerto and the first thing that hits you is the [...]

The Southern Sky: There Is No South Star

There is no North Star down here. Sailors in these waters had to find south [...]

Antarctica by Big Ship: What You Gain and Give Up

Expedition voyages to Antarctica commonly cost three times what this one does. Here is what [...]

Stanley, Falklands: A Village at the End of the Earth

After Antarctica, you tie up at a town with four pubs and a fish and [...]

Leaving Antarctica: What You Can Take Home

You can bring back photographs. That is the whole list.

Antarctica Is a Desert: The Driest Place on Earth

You are surrounded by more frozen water than anywhere else on the planet, and you [...]

New Year’s Eve in Antarctica: The Night Never Gets Dark

If you step out on deck at midnight on New Year's Eve, you will still [...]

Antarctica: The Continent Nobody Owns

You are looking at the only continent on earth with no country, no government, and [...]

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The First Ice: Why Antarctica Looks Blue

Antarctica looks white in pictures. The first surprise of December 29 is the color.

The Drake Passage: The Current That Circles the World

There is one place on earth where an ocean current runs all the way around [...]

Ushuaia: The Land Named for Its Fires

Magellan's men sailed past this coast in 1520 and saw fires burning along the shore. [...]

Punta Arenas: Where Shackleton’s Rescue Began

Shackleton's men all came home alive. The ship that went and got them sailed from [...]

Christmas Day at Sea, Bound for Antarctica

On Christmas morning you will look out the window and see water in every direction. [...]

Christmas Eve at Sea: Nochebuena Below the Equator

In Argentina, Christmas Eve is the whole holiday. And it happens in summer.

The First Albatross: A Sea Day in the South Atlantic

Somewhere off the coast of Argentina, a bird with an eleven-foot wingspan starts following the [...]

Río de la Plata: The Widest River in the World

The ship is bound for Antarctica. She spends her first two days on a river.

La Boca: Houses Painted With Leftover Ship Paint

One neighborhood in Buenos Aires is bright pink, yellow, blue, and green. There is a [...]

Buenos Aires Before an Antarctica Cruise

The ship sails for Antarctica on December 21. On December 20 you land in eighty-four-degree [...]

Aberdeenshire: Castles, Stones, and Sacred Places

Aberdeenshire in a Day: Castles, Stones, and Sacred Places Aberdeenshire is a landscape where memory [...]

Reykjavík: Farewell at the Edge of the World

Reykjavík: Farewell at the Edge of the World Journeys do not end where ships dock. [...]

Reykjavík & the Golden Circle: Where Fire, Water, and Freedom Meet

There are places in the world where nature overwhelms you, and there are places where [...]

Ísafjörður & Dynjandi: The Remote Beauty of the Westfjords

When you sail into the Westfjords, it feels as though you are entering a different [...]

Akureyri & Lake Mývatn: Fire and Life in the North

When you arrive in Akureyri, you may feel surprised. Iceland’s north is rugged, remote, and [...]

Crossing the Norwegian Sea

Ålesund & the Land of Trolls: Where Myth Walks Beside Stone

Norway is a country where landscape and legend never travel far apart. The artistry of [...]

Bergen & the Fjords: Where Mountains Meet the Sea

Norway does not ease you into its landscapes. It confronts you with grandeur. In Bergen, [...]

Crossing the North Sea

The North Sea does not pretend to be gentle. Its winds carry a sharpness, its [...]

Invergordon, Inverness & Loch Ness: Where History Lingers in the Highlands

The farther north you travel in Scotland, the more the landscape itself seems to take [...]

Edinburgh: Walking Through Layers of Time

When you arrive in Edinburgh, you immediately feel that you are stepping into a city [...]

The Language of Water: Day at Sea

To wake up and see nothing but water in every direction is to be reminded [...]

Southampton: A Harbor of Departures and Dreams

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