Expedition cruise agency Heritage Expeditions lately launched its new Genuine Small Ship Expedition Cruising 2025-2026 brochure.
This most up-to-date launch consists of two new voyages to Japan and a cruise business first within the Philippines, alongside Heritage Expeditions’ iconic journey cruises.
Industrial director and expedition chief Aaron Russ stated the family-owned and -operated firm was excited to announce one other season of sharing the world’s best-kept secrets and techniques with its intrepid travellers and supporting the distant communities and conservation of the wild and distant locations they go to.
What’s new this 12 months?
Highlights of the brand new brochure embody new Japan voyages, Eternally Sacred Japan and Uncover the Islands of Japan, alongside plans for one more business first for the main expedition cruise firm: visiting Polillo Island within the Philippines on its Asian Island Odyssey voyage.
Russ stated: “We anticipate to make cruise historical past throughout this season as the primary expedition ship to go to the distant tropical outpost of Polillo Island. It has the right mixture of unexplored paradisiacal island, unbelievable wildlife each above and beneath the water and an interesting conservation historical past.”
The brand new brochure likewise encapsulates Heritage Expeditions’ enterprise ethos based mostly on the luxurious of expertise and making a distinction by genuine expedition journey.
As Russ places it: “Most of the alternatives and experiences on our voyages are unique to Heritage Expeditions, whether or not it’s becoming a member of Malaita’s Kwaio individuals in a dance so sacred it may solely be noticed in case you are invited to participate on our Uncover the Secrets and techniques of Melanesia voyage, helping Professor Tim Flannery to find new mammal species on our Indonesian Explorer expedition, or becoming a member of main penguin scientist Professor Steve Emslie gathering samples on the world’s largest and oldest Adelie Penguin colony in Antarctica on our Within the Wake of Scott and Shackleton voyage, these actually are once-in-a-lifetime alternatives.”
Life-changing voyages
Heritage Expeditions Genuine Small Ship Expedition Cruising 2025-2026 brochure additionally options the corporate’s life-changing voyages exploring Australia’s Kimberley coast, rarely-visited New Zealand locations accessible solely by sea, all the way down to the distant, wilderness and wildlife havens of Australia and New Zealand’s Subantarctic Islands, and ‘into the center of Antarctica’ the Ross Sea aboard its luxurious, 140-guest expedition flagship Heritage Adventurer.
Whereas extra intimate explorations of the ice-carved fiords of Fiordland, the primordial wilderness of Stewart and Ulva Islands, and the breathtaking fantastic thing about Marlborough Sounds and Abel Tasman Nationwide Park aboard 18-guest expedition yacht Heritage Explorer had been honed by the corporate’s greater than 40 years of exploration of those areas.