Wildlife Cruises Around Spitzbergen
Limited departure dates now for summer 2008 expeditions
Please call or email for availability
From £2,360 per person excluding flights from the UK.
See “Details” on right for more information.
High quality, small and expeditionary ice strengthened boats for the nature traveller
World class experts in a range of Arctic subject to enhance your knowledge and enjoyment
Small vessels capable and flexible enough of venture into fyords and inlets other larger cruise boats cannot go.
Wildlife cruises for people who do not like ‘conventional’ cruises.
Spitzbergen evokes images of isolation and a stark beauty where long daylight hours reveal a wilderness home to wandering Polar Bears and imposing whales gliding through icy seas.
Wildlife cruises around Spitzbergen, or Svalbard in Norway, uncover one of the most romantic regions of the European Arctic combining as it does both an evocative name and a genuine sense of wilderness. Covering an area almost as big as the Republic of Ireland, Spitzbergen with its tiny population of 3500 living in five settlements is still virtually unspoilt.
Offering almost 24 hour daylight in early summer and with the northern regions offering almost certain the opportunity to see Polar Bears, Walruses and enjoy Seal watching, combined with its rugged mountains, sweeping tundra, ice caps and glaciers, it is a true High Arctic archipelago, only 600 miles from the North Pole.
Its abundant wildlife was once a huge draw for whalers and trappers but now discerning visitors on these wildlife cruises are discovering the attractions of huge Arctic seabird colonies and the chance to enjoy and photograph species other species like Reindeer, Arctic Fox, Bearded and Ringed Seals, and the Beluga or ‘White’ Whale.
Based on comfortable ice strengthened vessels, with only 50 passengers, they prove ideal for these expeditionary Norwegian cruises. Moving as often as possible on foot and transported by small Zodiac craft between landing spots for viewing wildlife, this is the finest way to explore the Arctic region, and its utter wilderness, peace and colour.
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Dates & Prices for 11 Day Norwegian Cruises
On Professor Molchanov
Departures end of July to beginning of September 2008
Professor Multanovskiy
Departures beginning of July to beginning of September 2008
On Grigoriy Mikheev
Departures end of July to beginning of September 2008
2009 expedition dates will be available early 2008.
Prices 2008 (based on the 11 day itinerary Lonyearbyen to Lonyearbyen)
Sharing triple cabin without private facilities (not available on some departures) £2,360pp
Sharing twin cabin without private facilities £2,725pp
Sharing twin cabin with private facilities £3,250pp
Sharing superior cabin with private facilities £3,630pp
Sharing suite with private facilities (not available on some departures) £4,050pp
These prices are subject to exchange rate fluctuations.
Single supplement are 1.8 times cost of twin cabin berth.
What’s Included
Wildlife cruise with full board and berths, lectures and guide services on vessel and on shore based excursions and support for a marine conservation project. Included in the trip cost is a contribution and membership to the Scott Polar Research Institute.
What’s Excluded
International flights to Longyearbyen and travel not mentioned in the itinerary, travel insurance, vaccinations and visas, gratuities, items of a personal nature including laundry and drinks, meals not shown, and hire/purchase of special clothing.
This Trip Supports..
Birdlife International
Scott Polar Research Institute
The wildlife cruise boats operate under strict Environmental standards with the least possible harm to this pristine continent and the greatest possible safety to you as the passengers.
Each passenger with us on our Polar Cruises receives a year’s ‘Friends membership’ of the Scott Polar Research Institute, Britain’s foremost Polar Research and Preservation organisation based in Cambridge.
Furthermore a contribution to Birdlife International’s ‘Save the Albatross Campaign’ is also made, with monies being used to protect the rapidly declining Albatross species – due in part to long line fishing in the Polar regions.
Field Expertise
Arctic experts
To appreciate this extraordinary region one needs the finest naturalists and ecologists to guide you and give lectures and insight into the wildlife and geography, on land and sea.
To this end every cruise has a number of experts to guide you on land and to communicate to you at sea. They include well known experts and naturalists, photographers and writers like Renie Van Meurs, with skills and experience covers history, ornithology, geography, geology, oceanography, marine biology and glaciology.
All are enthusiastic communicators with a wealth of experience in their subject matters and will add greatly to your enjoyment and understanding of this frozen Northern landscape.
Should you wish to get direct feedback from any number of our clients who have enjoyed one of our Norwegian cruises and travelled with us to the Polar Regions, please do contact us and we would be delighted to help put you in touch.