Expeditions
Pre-Northwest Passage: UK & France 18-27 August 2024
Why the Northwest Passage? The historical Northwest Passage (the Passage) has never been on my bucket list. Then in March 2024 while travelling on the Silver Cloud, I discovered a good deal on Le Boreal Ponant that charges no single supplement on the Passage this summer. The expedition would begin in Paris on 28 August … Continue reading
Swakopmund & Cape Town 23-24 March 2024 & Epilogue
March 23 Swakopmund – Cape Town As our flight to Cape Town would depart at 5 pm, we had a morning tour of Swakopmund a pretty city on the coast of western Namibia, about 35km from Walvis Bay. Founded in 1892 as the main harbour for German South West Africa, Swakopmund with a population of … Continue reading
Remote Atlantic Islands & Namibia 10-23 March 2024
March 10-12 Sailing to Tristan da Cunha Archipelago (1388NM) The weather is the king of the sea: we sailed on in search of the calm sea and sped ahead to reach the Tristan Archipelago where fine weather would expected as per weather forecast. Nature is incredible: no one knows what is installed ahead. On March … Continue reading
Silver Cloud March 2-10, 2024
Why this Expedition? This Silver Cloud expedition with 203 passengers onboard and an expedition team of 27 goes from Puerto Williams, Chile to Walvis Bay, Namibia from March 2 to 23. During this 22-day Atlantic journey, passengers would spend about ten days visiting the Falkland Islands, South Georgia, three islands in the Tristan Archipelago (Gough … Continue reading
Soloman Islands, Vanuatu & Sydney 31 October- 12 November 2023
Solomon Islands (also known as the Solomons) consists of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Melanesia, part of Oceania, to the northeast of Australia. The country has an area of over 28,000 km2 and an estimated population of 750,000. Honiara located on the largest island, Guadalcanal is the capital and largest city. First … Continue reading
Papau New Guinea 23-30 October 2023
Papua New Guinea Bordering Indonesia to the west and Australia to the south, PNG is an island country located on the Pacific Ocean. It occupies the east half of New Guinea Island that is in both Australia and Oceania, and some nearby islands. Papau and New Guinea used to be separate entities, influenced and colonized … Continue reading
Indonesia October 7-22, 2023
Why Bali – Vanuatu on Heritage Adventure 2023 I had booked two expeditions with the Heritage Expedition to explore the coast of Sea of Okhotsk and Kamchatka in May-June 2020. COVID 19 threw the world upside down. A year later the Ukraine war made it impossible to visit Russia. I therefore switched to a one-month long expedition … Continue reading
4 ‘Lands’ 4: Canadian Coast September 29 – October 4, 2019
Iqaluit, Labrador & Newfoundland
4 ‘Lands’ 3: Greenland & Sea September 24- 28, 2019
Greenland Fjord, Ruins & Communities
4 ‘Lands’ 2: Iceland & Sea September 20 – 22, 2019
September 20 – October 5: Reykjavik to St John’s onboard Silver Explorer