Stuck For Holiday Ideas? Try A Cruise
Cruises have become an affordable and enjoyable way of going on holiday and getting away from it all without having to give up the amenities and luxuries that you’re used to in everyday life. You can travel to tropical islands or remote continents without having to surrender your mobile phone, laptop, or flat screen HDTV and you can do it while dining at some of the finest restaurants in the world, right on your cruise ship.
The ports-of-call might still be in a historic state but the cruise ship won’t be. The cruises of today provide every luxury and amenity available so that passengers can be at ease while they are aboard ship. The cruise ships also employ that same technology that allows you to call home on your mobile phone to determine their position and navigate safely to their destinations. Even the smaller ships use GPS technology and sonar.
Once you decide that you’re going on a cruise for your next holiday, where will you go? You could choose a tropical location like the Caribbean or Mediterranean, but what about something more remote, like Antarctica or the polar ice cap? Cruise ships travel to these regions at certain times of the year and what you’ll see there will be a once in a lifetime experience, something you can’t find on any white sandy beach.
Would you like to see where life began, examine relics and ruins from ancient civilizations, or walk the streets of once proud warrior cities? Try a river cruise on the Nile or the Euphrates. These regions around the Mediterranean are where the first major civilizations took root and thrived. There are many monuments, cities, temples, and tombs left behind by those first civilizations that can be viewed today as part of a cruise package.
South and Central America offer some of the best coastal and interior cruises in the world. The Panama Canal, Rio de Janeiro, and Amazon River cruises all have a certain allure to them. The Amazon offers perhaps the best natural tour of a region where the presence of man is not readily seen, though his impact has definitely been felt. See the tropical rain forest and stay at a rain forest lodge along the way if you’re looking to get in tune with nature. There’s no place better than the Amazon to do that.
Sarah Van Rensburg is a travel lover and avid writer, focussing on a number of topics including cruises.
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