Christmas in Antarctica

The chilling adventure to Antarctica starts in Ushuaia, the world's southernmost city. Though a city, the place gives vibes of a beautiful town as it stands perched on a steep hill, surrounded by Martial Mountains and the famous Beagle Channel. Feel free to explore this wonderful city on your own or join our optional day excursions to near by Tierra del Fuego National Park. After a tiring day, you enjoy an overnight stay here before you embark the ship next day noon. Once embarked on the second day, explore the interior of your ship which will act as your base camp for the coming days. After attending safety briefings and drills, enjoy a Welcome dinner as we start sailing across the Beagle Channel.

Prepare yourself for Antarctica as we cross the famous Drake Passage. This is the same passage through which explorers found the prominent route to this cold continent. Our ship is especially designed for such polar explorations and offers both knowledge and entertainment. To keep everyone engaged, there will be lectures held out at the common lounge on geology, history, wildlife etc to prepare you for the polar destination and activities taking place to help you get mingled with fellow travelers. Watch out for Antarctic Petrels, and various sea birds, from the observation lounge, or simply head out on the decks to breathe the chilling winds. For the sailing leaving on 29th Dec 2021, we hope to celebrate New year's Day with special meals and holiday festivities in the various traditions of multinational passengers you travel with. We encourage our guests to dress in elegant attire, and dance away the day with the hope to make it a night to remember

Enter the frozen continent, Antarctica. As the captain announces our entry, you will see stunning glaciers , snow covered land, sea covered with occasional ice sheets in all directions, making it picture-perfect. As the excited photographers change their cameras into landscape mode, enjoy the vast expanse of naturally made sculpture-like iced structures floating around you. We hope the Antarctica Snow makes it for all. Christmas falls on the first day of your adventure. We celebrate the day with special meals and yuletide festivities in the various traditions of our multinational passengers. Santa Claus will make an appearance and you can have your photo taken with him in the snow. We encourage you to dress in festive attire for an evening of holiday music, singing and dancing in the most serene way possible, without disturbing the silence of the region. The moment you set foot on this continent, you will be a Polar Wilderness Explorer. You might not see the sights we mention here, or you may see the sights that someone before has never seen! Trust us when we say that every second of this journey has something new to offer. Elements of weather, sea and ice will play a big role in determining our activities here, but to expect the unexpected is what expedition is all about. On clear days, after determining prime safety, we hop on with our expedition team on smaller boats To enjoy close encounters with wildlife and glaciers, go on hikes to explore the land, scientific stations and abandoned whaling stations. Once in this continent, there is no specific route. We explore on the go everyday, every minute, every second. This is why every Antarctica experience will be unique. Therefore, we need to be pragmatic; we change landings, re-route and sailing plans as we go along. This also means that we will take advantage of the o en ideal conditions – spend hours ashore, on the water with kayaks, hiking or simply cruising amongst huge pods of whales. Weather, wind and ice conditions have a great influence on our programme and schedule. We will attempt to land several places, including Deception Island, Half Moon Island, Brown Blu , Cuverville Island and Neko Harbour. All of these places are serene and o er untouched nature, opportunities to observe penguin colonies, seals, , glaciers, icebergs in every shape and colour and old whaling stations and. It ́s hard to sum up all the impressions you will gain. As a well-known quote from veteran Antarctic travelers puts it: “If you can describe Antarctica with words, you have probably never been there.” As our boat slushes through the streams of water in pitch silence embrace the thick cloud of mist brought by the cold winds. With splashes of penguins swimming here and there, if you listen very carefully you will be able to hear the crackling of glaciers far off making a symphony of their own. We reach the Paradise Harbour a descriptive name from the whalers during the last century. Wilhelmina Bay here with its stunning scenery is also often called “Whale-mina Bay”, because of the large number of humpback whales spotted here in December. We have planned plenty of activities here to make you experience Antarctica in the best way. On days where we cant make a landing, join gatherings where the various members of the expedition team recount the day’s activities, make presentations, and the expedition leader discusses the next day’s plan. These gatherings are great opportunities for sharing and making a shared memory while mingling with the expedition community.

After exploring the exhilarating continent, we set course back to civilisation. Spend the day at sea recapping your experiences, having fun at the Lounge or just relaxing on deck. Bid adieu to all glaciers you pass by and for one last time, take your chance to stand out on the decks and breathe in the fresh, pristine and alluring Antarctic air. As we sail past the drake passage, the sea birds are here to give us company once again.

An unforgettable adventure comes to a satisfying and fulfilling end. It is time to say goodbye to the crew and all your new friends when we reach Ushuaia. We transfer you to the airport for your flight back home or drop you at the city center if you have any extended plans. This is the best time to explore more of the unseen Argentina. if time permits. Extend your stay for a few hours to a few days for more exciting activities, or simply head back home.