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Cruise Weekly: Battle of the Mekong
If you believe the industry hype, river cruising is riding the rocket of small ship and adventure products in a rapidly growing cruise market. I tend to agree. The anecdotal evidence points to more travellers seeking out products away from the traditional sea and coastal routes and looking inland to the great waterways. One of […]
Cruise Weekly: Battle of the Mekong
If you believe the industry hype, river cruising is riding the rocket of small ship and adventure products in a rapidly growing cruise market. I tend to agree. The anecdotal evidence points to more travellers seeking out products away from the traditional sea and coastal routes and looking inland to the great waterways. One of […]
Cruise Weekly: Romance on the Reef
Location Thetford Reef; 16 deg 48.2S, 146 deg 10.3E “Where’s Wally?” That was the question on everybody’s lips. Wally, in case you were wondering, is the 100kg Giant Hump-Headed Maori Wrasse who inhabits Thetford Reef, Coral Princess II’s first stop out of Cairns on her southward exploration of the Great Barrier Reef. “He looks nasty,” […]
Cruise Weekly: Romance on the Reef
Location Thetford Reef; 16 deg 48.2S, 146 deg 10.3E “Where’s Wally?” That was the question on everybody’s lips. Wally, in case you were wondering, is the 100kg Giant Hump-Headed Maori Wrasse who inhabits Thetford Reef, Coral Princess II’s first stop out of Cairns on her southward exploration of the Great Barrier Reef. “He looks nasty,” […]
Cruise Weekly: Aboard the MV Charaideo
Position: 26 deg 19′ N, 92 deg 08′ E Brahmaputra River, Assam, India Tea and Tigers on the Brahmaputra “Ship stuck in sand, foreigners taste the Orient” – The Telegraph (India) It wasn’t an auspicious start. We were on the front page of one of the national Indian dailies even before we’d boarded the vessel. […]
Cruise Weekly: Aboard the MV Charaideo
Position: 26 deg 19′ N, 92 deg 08′ E Brahmaputra River, Assam, India Tea and Tigers on the Brahmaputra “Ship stuck in sand, foreigners taste the Orient” – The Telegraph (India) It wasn’t an auspicious start. We were on the front page of one of the national Indian dailies even before we’d boarded the vessel. […]
Cruise Weekly Comment: New destinations for adventurers
Le Boreal and L’Austral The first time most of us heard about the largest French-flagged cruise line was when Somali pirates commandeered the luxury sailing vessel Le Ponant last April as she was returning from her Indian Ocean itineraries. Commandos freed the hostages, recovered the vessel, took six Somali prisoners and ensured Ponant Cruises massive […]
