From January 22, 2025 to February 1, 2025
Ship: Hondius
Duration: 11 days
Prices from: 8,650 USD per person
From January 22, 2025 to February 1, 2025
Ship: Hondius
Duration: 11 days
Prices from: 8,650 USD per person
Your voyage begins where the world drops off. Ushuaia, Argentina, reputed to be the southernmost city on the planet, is located on the far southern tip of South America. Starting in the afternoon, you embark from this small resort town on Tierra del Fuego, nicknamed “The End of the World,” and sail the mountain-fringed Beagle Channel for the remainder of the evening.
Over the next two days on the Drake Passage, you enjoy some of the same experiences encountered by the great polar explorers who first charted these regions: cool salt breezes, rolling seas, maybe even a fin whale spouting up sea spray. After passing the Antarctic Convergence – Antarctica’s natural boundary, formed when north-flowing cold waters collide with warmer sub-Antarctic seas – you are in the circum-Antarctic upwelling zone. Not only does the marine life change, the avian life changes too. Wandering albatrosses, grey-headed albatrosses, black-browed albatrosses, light-mantled sooty albatrosses, cape pigeons, southern fulmars, Wilson’s storm petrels, blue petrels, and Antarctic petrels are a few of the birds you might see.
Paradise Bay – You may be able to take a Zodiac cruise in these sprawling, ice-flecked waters, where there’s a good chance you’ll encounter humpback and minke whales.
Port Lockroy – After sailing through the Neumayer Channel, you may get a chance to visit the former British research station – now a museum and post office – of Port Lockroy on Goudier Island. You may also be able to partake in activities around Jougla Point, meeting gentoo penguins and blue-eyed shags.
Every adventure, no matter how grand, must eventually come to an end. It’s now time to disembark in Ushuaia, but with memories that will accompany you wherever your next adventure lies.
Hondius is the world’s first-registered Polar Class 6 passenger
vessel, making her among the most structurally fortified and
technologically advanced polar cruise ships on the seas.
Hondius offers comfortable
accommodation for 170 passengers in six grand suites with balconies,
eight junior suites, eight superior cabins, 11 twin deluxe cabins,
14 twin window cabins, 27 twin porthole cabins, two triple porthole
cabins, and four quadruple porthole cabins.
$ 8.650
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