Cruise Port Guide
The bucket-list things to do — and the private, expert-led way to do each.
Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, and the private, small-group, or expert-led way to make it yours — your own pace, real access, none of the crowd.
Join the ancient maritime rite of passage as your ship crosses the 180th meridian — the International Date Line — and earn the legendary Golden Shellback distinction, one of the rarest honours a seafarer can hold.
On the Fijian island of Taveuni — one of the few land masses the International Date Line bisects — stand astride the iconic white monument and place one foot in yesterday and one in tomorrow, a bucket-list moment like no other on Earth.
Explore Apia, the capital of the nation that famously 'skipped a day' on 29 December 2011 when Samoa leapt westward across the International Date Line — a world event with no parallel in modern history.
Tonga claims to be the first inhabited place on Earth to greet each new day. Watch dawn break over the South Pacific from the eastern cliffs of 'Eua Island, standing at the literal edge of Earth's time zones in golden silence.
Kiritimati sits directly astride the International Date Line and is one of the world's most coveted bonefishing destinations — a bucket-list double: standing at the edge of time while casting for silver ghosts across vast, gin-clear Pacific flats.
Step ashore at Midway Atoll — a US National Wildlife Refuge straddling the Date Line corridor and scene of the Pacific War's decisive turning point — for a moving, expert-led immersion into one of history's most consequential naval battles.
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