DESTINATIONS — CRUISE
ADVENTURES ASHORE
If the cost puts expedition cruising out of the reach of clients, never fear. The days of dull coach sightseeing excursions are long gone as cruise lines have stretched their imaginations and come up with a stack of adventures ashore to appeal to cruisers looking for an adrenaline rush.
✤ Norway is a favourite for fun days out, with everything from dog-sledding and snowmobile safaris (offered on Cruise & Maritime Voyages’ northern lights cruises) to a weird and wonderful six-and-a-half-hour tour snorkelling with salmon trip. It’s available on a Celebrity Cruises voyage from Southampton on June 27, 2015, priced £600.
✤ Not exciting enough? How about a 30-minute jet boat ride in Sydney Harbour with power brake stops and 270-degree spins. Or test your mettle on The Screamer, Awesome and Leap of Faith at H’Evans Scent (owned by Mr Motivator) in Jamaica.
CruisingExcursions.com offers both, priced £44 and £88.48 respectively.
✤ Join an elephant safari in search of rhinos through Kaziranga National Park in India. Offered by Far Horizon India on a Brahmaputra river cruise in Assam between mid-October and May 2015 at no cost.
✤ Buckle up for a private ride in a Cessna aircraft over Mount Hood, near Portland, Oregon, on a tour of the Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum. The tour is offered by the American Queen Steamboat Company on a cruise on the Columbia River from Clarkeston to Portland, priced $249.
✤ Get a bird’s-eye view of Stockholm (pictured below) on a three-hour rooftop tour that takes you 43 metres above the city. Offered by Azamara Club Cruises on four Baltic voyages in August 2015, priced £103.25 (minimum age 15).
✤ Head into the wilderness on an overnight husky tour along the route of the Finnmarken dog race. Offered by Hurtigruten on Norwegian coastal voyages that start or end in Kirkenes between January 5 and April 5, 2015, priced £1,227 including a night in a lodge with dinner and breakfast.
✤ Speed across Langjökull Glacier in Iceland in a snowmobile before a jeep ride to the Hraunfossar falls, where water emerges from beneath a lava field. Offered
on Crystal Cruises’ 10-night cruise from Dover to Reykjavik departing June 28, 2015, price not yet released.
✤ Travel around ancient Rome the 21st-century way – on a two-hour guided Segway tour. Offered by Thomson Cruises on Mediterranean itineraries that call at Civitavecchia in 2015, priced £46.
✤ Put some va va vroom into a visit to the Caribbean island of St Maarten on a Harley-Davidson tour through the French and Dutch sides. Offered by MSC Cruises on voyages visiting Philipsburg this winter, priced £159. Drivers must have a valid motorcycle licence and be aged over 25.
✤ Zip on a special ‘bridge suit’ and join a five- hour tour to climb to the top of Sydney Harbour Bridge. Offered by Fred Olsen Cruise Lines on Black Watch’s 115-night round-the-world cruise departing January 2016, priced £200.
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