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Here we showcase an Article focused on specialty cruises that we feel you will find interesting and informative. These Articles are usually written by a third party who has no vested interest in our website, nor the subject, but who provides a remarkably insightful glimpse at a captivating aspect of specialty cruises.
Articles cover the spectrum of the world of specialty cruises. Far flung destinations. Unusual cruise vessels. Exotic itineraries. Appealing cruise themes. You're guaranteed to always find something here that will capture your interest or imagination.
No-fuss France a shore thing
By: Michelle Rowe at www.theaustralian.com.au | July 03, 2010
IT is clear from the start that Jean-Loup Domart is a man who likes order. Addressing the crowd of international guests who have gathered at Le Meridien Montparnasse hotel in Paris, he repeats his instructions like a mantra.
"Suitcases are to be outside your hotel room at precisely 6.30am," he decrees. "At 8am you…
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Rollin' on a Ukrainian river
By: Diane Slawych, QMI Agency | July 28, 2010
KIEV, Ukraine -- Europe's third-longest river, the Dnieper, gets so little traffic that when a vessel is sighted on the waterway, it's somewhat of an event. Quite a contrast with some of the region's other rivers.
"The Rhine has traffic like a highway," explains Henry Seiler, hotel manager of Viking River Cruises,…
Cruise the Far East: Vietnam and Cambodia on a slow boat down the mighty Mekong
By: Amy Watkins at www.dailymail.co.uk | June 21, 2010
The morning mist rises off the Cambodian town of Kampong Chhnang as the kids wait for their 'bus', mum cleans up breakfast dishes in front of daytime TV and dad gets ready for work. Not really unusual sights: but they are among 4,000 people bobbing in this floating village on the Tonle Sap River.
Sampans groaning…
Peacefully Adrift as the Mississippi River Just Rolls Along
By: Paul Schneider | January 10, 2010
THE same drifting log had caught up with our kayaks again. It was sometime during our third day on the Mississippi River, or was it the fourth day, or the second or fifth? I’d lost myself again in a silent reverie, allowing my kayak to spin lazily along the great river’s western shoreline, like a bright yellow leaf…
Adventures in Aswan
By: Anthony Sattin, The Observer | May 09, 2010
Aswan is overflowing with history, a place that has fascinated visitors from Florence Nightingale to Flaubert. So why is it so often overlooked by today's tourists?
They know about alchemy in Aswan, for it is a place that has always shifted from one thing into another. To ancient Egyptians it was a line in the sand,…
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