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Every captivating tailor-made itinerary needs a perfect base. Our team has handpicked this collection of properties to give you luxury options in styles to suit any adventure.
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Our Team Steppes Travel is made by the people who work here. Incredible holidays are made possible because of their vast travel experience and the great enthusiasm they bring to their work.
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Our Tour Experts We carefully select our experts based on their knowledge, companionship and influence, ensuring that you can travel with the most knowledgeable leaders in the field.
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Heroes and Heroines The people who lead the way when it comes to those things which matter to us: exploration, the environment, women’s empowerment and education.
Russian Arctic Holidays
Our expertise in putting together trips to Russia and the Arctic is unrivalled.
The Russian Arctic stretches from Murmansk in the west round to Anadyr in the east, encompassing the Barents, Kara and Laptev Seas along with the Bering Straits.
The remote islands and archipelagos such as Wrangel, Herald, Novaya Zemla, Franz Josef Land and Severnaya Zemlya support a stunning array of birds and wildlife. Wrangel Island is the world’s northernmost UNESCO World Heritage Site and has polar bears in such great density that travellers in the Russian Arctic often experience a hundred or more bear sightings on a single trip.
Experts in the Extraordinary
At Steppes Travel, we cut our teeth selling trips to Russia in 1989, then expanding into offering voyages to the Russian Arctic for clients looking for a truly off-piste Arctic experience.This is a land of huge skies, snow-capped mountains, towering bird cliffs, tundra wilderness and trees that you can look down on. Beguiling and bleak – the definition of a truly remote destination.
Cruises and Voyages
Cruise the Russian Arctic
Welcome to the “polar bear maternity ward” of the Arctic. An extraordinary expedition cruise to the polar bear habitat of Wrangel Island and the home of the indigenous Chukchi Eskimo people, this is an adventure-filled trip to a little-visited corner of the world. Focusing on exploring dramatic landscapes and uncovering spectacular wildlife, passengers will have the chance to land on remote islands in the company of expert guides for an intimate insight into the region’s ecology.
Experiences
What do you really love doing? We curate your itinerary especially for you.
Meet our experts
A passion for travel runs right through every one of our experts - meaning they're always ready with first-hand insight about their specialist countries.
Sue Grimwood
On Russia’s remote Wrangel Island, Sue has tracked musk ox across the tundra, scanned the horizon for snowy owls, spotted scurrying lemmings, explored some intriguing remnants of the cold war and seen over 100 polar bears
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01285 601 784Canadian Arctic
A space in which wildlife can flourish with little human influence. Become one with an Inuit community and seek out the elusive…
Greenland
Magnificent landscapes, Arctic wildlife and the ethereal flickering of the Northern Lights
Spitsbergen
Witness dramatic scenery, ice-choked fjords and myriad wildlife including polar bears, whales and walruses.
North Pole
Literally feel on top of the world. Let our expert - who visits the area regularly - help you to create an…
Why Choose Steppes?
These may be uncertain times but they are, without a doubt, still full of opportunity to discover the extraordinary safely. Through knowledge and expertise, we can connect you to those destinations embracing travellers with the added confidence of flexible booking and decades of insight.
Are you ready to discover extraordinary once again?
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