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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.
Expert-Led Cruises
Join one of our exclusive small boat charters to destinations including Galapagos, Canada, Hawaii, India and Antarctica.
We have chosen to work with a selection of experts in their field on Steppes Travel privately chartered boats to a selection of destinations worldwide. We carefully select our experts based on their personal insight, knowledge, companionship and influence.
Previous expert-led cruises have included Galapagos with Liz Bonnin, Papua New Guinea with Chris Packham, Galapagos with Monty Halls and Antarctica with Wade Davis, Sue Flood and Stephen Venables.
We have some NEW exciting expert-led cruises lined up with William Dalrymple in India, Richard Dawkins in Hawaii, Jo Ruxton in Galapagos and Sue Flood to Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest.
Departing 14th February 2021
NEW India cruise with William Dalrymple
Board the five-star Ganges Voyager on a 10-day river cruise into the heart of West Bengal. William Dalrymple, author and historian will join you onboard to share his knowledge of India and explore key regions mentioned in his latest book, The Anarchy.
The cruise slowly drifts alongside riverside communities on the Lower Ganges, punctuated by historic battlefields, temple complexes, historic mosques and impressive colonial architecture.
Departing 7th June 2020
Galapagos cruise with Jo Ruxton
Join our special Galapagos Island charter in collaboration with New Scientist. This is a fantastic opportunity to explore the Galapagos Islands, with marine conservationist and producer of the documentary A Plastic Ocean, Jo Ruxton. Jo has worked with the BBC Natural History unit and was part of the celebrated Blue Planet team. Spend eight days exploring the archipelago with opportunities to explore a selection of islands on foot, by panga (dingy) and snorkelling.
Departing 3rd September 2020
Great Bear Rainforest cruise with Sue Flood
This is a unique opportunity to travel around one of the last remaining protected habitats for bears, Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest, with a world-renowned photographer Sue Flood and expert naturalists. We have deliberately limited the number joining this group to 10 people plus your photographic leader, Sue Flood. The boat has a capacity for 14 people but we are keen to give our clients extra space on board.
Departing 23rd October 2020
Hawaii cruise with Richard Dawkins
Hawaii is one of the earth’s youngest island chains with geological makeup including white, black, even green and red sand beaches. Learn about the geology of the islands that are born of fire and made up of the world’s most active volcanoes. Led by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and supported by New Scientist, this is an insight into Hawaii that goes beyond the everyday.
Departing 17th November 2021
South Georgia and Antarctica Fly-cruise
If you have a love of wildlife and wild places, an expedition voyage to South Georgia and the Antarctic Peninsula is the ultimate travel experience. Nothing quite prepares you for the epic scale or the amazing sense of space. Towering ice cliffs, gigantic glaciers, bergs the size of skyscrapers – little wonder that Roald Amundsen wrote of Antarctica that “the land looks like a fairy-tale”.
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
I was inspired to travel south from an early age. My form teacher when I was nine made us listen to tapes from Shackleton’s expeditions, I didn’t know it at the time, but it obviously left a deep impression on my psyche. Talk with our experts
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Roxy Dukes
I love to squeeze as much out of my day as possible. An outdoors fanatic, I love to delve into harsh environments having summited numerous mountains and trail running into the unknown whenever I get the chance – whether at home or overseas. Funnily enough, it didn’t start like that. It took a few years for the burning fire of adventure to truly take light with my eyes opened by the adventures travel could afford. Talk with our experts
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Paul Bird
It wasn’t part of the script, career plans were quite different but after four global trips visiting such exciting destinations, travel became a passion that eventually led to me entering the industry. The more I have travelled the greater the desire has been to see and do more. Talk with our experts
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John Faithfull
My love affair with travel began in a vintage Italian train carriage at sunset on a hot and sticky September evening in 1983. Sardined into a two-bench compartment, I’d spent five hours sharing sweaty thighs, broken-Italian pleasantries and furtive glances while rattling towards Turin, stopping at every wisteria-draped village along the way. Talk with our experts
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