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.
Glide through ice-choked Arctic waters in a Zodiac inflatable, navigating between calving glaciers and scanning for polar bears, walrus, and Arctic fox on the floe edges. A raw, unfiltered encounter with the world's most legendary sea route.
Soar over Greenland's Ilulissat Icefjord — a UNESCO World Heritage site — before touching down on an ancient glacier for a champagne moment atop the world's most productive ice sheet. Few experiences on Earth match this aerial perspective of cascading seracs and indigo meltwater rivers.
Spend a morning with Inuit knowledge-keepers in Cambridge Bay (Iqaluktuuttiaq), learning the art of the qajaq (kayak), throat singing, and Arctic survival traditions passed down for millennia. This is living culture, not a museum exhibit.
Paddle a sea kayak through the mirror-calm waters of Eclipse Sound, beneath towering limestone cliffs alive with thousands of nesting thick-billed murres and black-legged kittiwakes, with Bylot Island's ice caps glowing on the horizon.
Board a specially equipped tundra vehicle for a guided wildlife safari across Cornwallis Island, seeking out polar bears, Arctic wolves, musk oxen, and snowy owls in one of the most remote inhabited places on Earth.
Walk the very ground where Sir John Franklin's ill-fated 1845 expedition met its end, guided by an Arctic historian and Inuit knowledge-keeper who weave together documentary evidence and oral tradition into one of history's greatest mysteries.
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