DESTINATIONS AMERICAN RIVERS CRUISE RIGHT: Wine tasting
in Washington State
FAR RIGHT: Henry Ford Museum, Detroit
BELOW: Toronto
from Natchez. AQSC has optional tours of the Civil War front line from Vicksburg and excursions to Indianola, the hometown of Blues legend BB King, from Greenville.
w PACIFIC NORTHWEST Buoyed by the success of the Mississippi, in 2014 AQSC launched one-week cruises on the Columbia and Snake rivers in America’s Pacific Northwest. They are on the American Empress, which has a paddlewheel that’s just for show. These cruises, also offered
by American Cruise Lines and UnCruise Adventures, operate between March and November, and take passengers from Portland, a city on the US west coast famous for its liquid sunshine (aka rain), into the desert at Clarkston in Washington, or vice versa. This is a voyage
in the footsteps of pioneering
The voyage is in the footsteps of explorers who led an expedition in the early 1800s in search of the Pacific
explorers Lewis and Clark, who led a three-year expedition across the US in the early 1800s in search of the Pacific Ocean. From Astoria, tours visit a reconstruction of Fort Clatsop, where the expedition over- wintered in 1805; in Richland, they visit Sacajawea State Park, named after the expedition’s native American guide. This cruise is not just about history, though, with trips to wineries and waterfalls
in Washington, a museum of antique cars and aeroplanes
in The Dalles and high-speed jet boat rides in Hell’s Canyon among other options. UnCruise offers hikes and
white-water rafting on an eight- night Rivers of Adventure cruise on Legacy, an 86-passenger coastal steamer. There are eight departures between August and October, with prices from $4,995 cruise-only. Seven wine-themed cruises between October and December 2018 have a wine expert and sommelier on board.
w BEST OF THE REST Other river cruises in North America include American Cruise Lines’ eight-day voyages on the St Johns and Tolomato rivers in Florida that visit wildlife parks and historic towns, and Fall Foliage voyages on the Hudson River from New York. The latter combine well with a stay in the Big Apple, operating in September and October when the region’s autumn leaves are at
their fiery red best. Passengers visit former US president Franklin D Roosevelt’s home in Hyde Park and the US Military Academy at West Point. For something very different,
CroisiEurope is launching cruises between Quebec City and Toronto in August that take passengers along Canada’s St Lawrence River and through Lake Ontario and the Thousand Islands archipelago that separates Canada and the US. The itinerary includes calls at Montreal, Toronto and Niagara, where tours visit the CN Tower and include a helicopter ride over the falls. Victory Cruise Lines, sold in the
UK by Fred Holidays, has voyages on the Great Lakes between Toronto and Chicago that include a tour of Niagara Falls, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland and Henry Ford Museum in Detroit. From £4,999 cruise-only for 10 days on dates from June to October.
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PICTURES: GARY MALERBA; RICHARD DUVAL IMAGES; PEI KETRON
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