The Borneo rainforest is one of the few remaining natural habitats for the orangutan. On this Southeast Asian island, you glimpse a world that is all but lost.
Ecuador: Galapagos Voyage
Share Darwin’s wonder but not the Beagles spartan conditions. Love the boobies, love the butlers appearing with chilled champagne.
Norway: Nights on Ice
Norway’s winter sky plays host to the Northern Lights, on view from the ship deck on a Hurtigruten cruise.
Patagonia: The Sporting Life
The Atmosphere calls on ports in the middle of nowhere that appeal to lovers of the sporting life. If you can envision a more perfect day in Patagonia, tell the pilot your pleasure. You could be anywhere the helicopter can land.
Papua New Guinea: Explorers’ Cruise
In a previous century, a sea voyage to this remote Pacific island would have secured your credentials in a private explorer’s club. Today, the MV Orion sails to inaccessible areas with butlers and a crack professional staff to escort you to beaches, coral atolls, rain forest and highland villages.
Peru: Amazon River
No place on earth displays nature’s puckish ways better than the Amazon River. The MV Aqua chugs upriver from Iquitos to visit the madcap menagerie. At Pacaya Samiria Reserve, point your camera and start clicking. Pink dolphins, manatees, tarmarins and scarlet macaws sense the adulation.