Featured Cruise Articles
Here we showcase an Article focused on specialty cruises that we feel you will find interesting and informative. These Articles are usually written by a third party who has no vested interest in our website, nor the subject, but who provides a remarkably insightful glimpse at a captivating aspect of specialty cruises.
Articles cover the spectrum of the world of specialty cruises. Far flung destinations. Unusual cruise vessels. Exotic itineraries. Appealing cruise themes. You're guaranteed to always find something here that will capture your interest or imagination.
Exploring the Canadian High Arctic Region on an `Anti-Cruise'
By: Hugo Miller | August 25, 2008
On the bridge aboard the Lyubov Orlova, Captain Andrey Rudenko whispers commands to his crew in Russian. It is past 11 p.m. and even the long Arctic days have come to a close, leaving the bridge dark but for the green glow from the ship's radar and instrument panels.
Rudenko, 46, negotiates the shoal-laced waters…
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Voyage of the Dim-Dims
By: Tom Huth | January 01, 2008
Can luxury and real adventure go together on a cruise? Tom Huth boards the good ship Orion, bound for remote Pacific islands. Plus: We pick more cruises, from the Amazon to Alaska, that promise days of spectacle and nights of pampered bliss
Why not take a trip on a smaller ship?
Enjoy sights other travellers miss
By: Rick Cropp |
We love all the glitz and glamour, fabulous food and non-stop things to do on the huge cruise ships. But if large ships aren't for you, try the other end of the spectrum. Small expedition ships can take you places that the itinerary planners for the big boys won't (or can't) consider.
Three Gorges: A river runs through it, for better or worse
By: MARY BETH SHERIDAN | May 13, 2008
China has done its best to ruin the scenery on the Yangtze River.
Smog blots the sun. Factories dot the shores. And the construction of a giant dam has flooded the Three Gorges, the famed river passage through towering limestone and sandstone cliffs.
And yet, one afternoon a year ago, a friend and I were staring…
Sailing Toward Paradise
By: MATTHEW POWER | December 27, 2007
THERE are few places on the planet more appropriate to contemplate a sea journey than at the Miraflores Locks, on the western end of the Panama Canal. It is a balmy March evening, and the red tropical sun hangs low over the jungle-covered hills. At eye level a container ship slides silently by, seeming close enough to…
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