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Expedition Cruises

What is an Expedition Cruise? The biggest difference between expedition cruises and soft adventure cruises is the degree of “roughing it”. Although there is a greater degree of “roughing it”, you will still enjoy the most important creature comforts and all the safety such cruises ensure.

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The key to the expedition cruise experience is high adventure, from the wilderness and remoteness of the destinations to the special outfitting of research-type ships.
Another major difference between soft adventure and expedition cruising is that some of these expedition vessels can go where even soft adventure cruise ships can’t. Quark Expeditions’ Russian icebreakers, for example, can maneuver through heavy ice fields, enabling their one particularly well-equipped vessel to circumnavigate the North Pole.
All expedition ships are equipped with bow ramps or inflatable excursion craft, providing you access to pristine natural beauty and small, usually isolated villages or wilderness areas.
These cruises are for hardy, adventuresome passengers offering authentic, exciting, but safe, shoreexperiences otherwise unobtainable.
The lecturers and guides who provide education in nature, science, culture,and so on are often experts in their fields. You will receive accurate anddetailed information on what you’re seeing and experiencing. As with softadventure cruises, the focus on expedition ships is education and learning.
The style of most expedition cruises tends to be casual, with informal dress and a relaxed and natural shipboard environment, maximizing the focuson the destination.
Some expedition vessels are surprisingly luxurious, and provide an impressive number of guest facilities, including pools, fitness centers, and other amenities usually associated with large-ship cruising.

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