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Heroes and Heroines Expert-Led Cruises Collection
Our experts have created and curated these expert-led cruises to get you started. Take the time to search through them and find something that is the spark for your unique 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.
Expert-Led Cruises
Join one of our exclusive small boat charters to destinations including Galapagos, Canada, Hawaii, India and Antarctica.
We work with a carefully selected group of experts, each with reams of personal insight and subject knowledge, who accompany our clients on exclusive private boat journeys worldwide.
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. Upcoming expert-led cruises include India with William Dalrymple, Hawaii with Richard Dawkins, Galapagos with Jo Ruxton and Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest with Sue Flood.
South Georgia and Antarctica Fly-Cruise
Antarctica Cruise with New Scientist
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. 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”.
Galapagos Cruise
Galapagos Cruise with New Scientist
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. Spend eight days exploring the archipelago with opportunities to explore a selection of islands on foot, by panga (dingy) and snorkelling.
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Spitsbergen and Greenland Cruise
Arctic Cruise with The Friends of SPRI
Join like-minded people cruising aboard the Ortelius from Spitsbergen to Northeast Greenland, finishing in Iceland in conjunction with The Friends of The Scott Polar Research Institute.
Great Bear Rainforest
Canada 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 world-renowned photographer Sue Flood and expert naturalists.
The Ganges
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.
Baja Voyage
Baja California with Sylvia Earle
The Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez, was once famously dubbed the ‘aquarium of the world.’ The rugged islands, coastal desert and the surrounding turquoise waters are of striking natural beauty. It is one of the most productive ocean regions in the world, home to over 900 species of fish, including sharks – 90 of them endemic – more than 2,000 invertebrate species and a variety of whales, dolphins, rays, sea turtles and sea lions. It is no surprise that Dr. Sylvia Earle has designated it as a Hope Spot, a place championed by local conservationists and scientifically identified as being critical to the health of the ocean. This is a very special opportunity to join Dr. Sylvia Earle on the ship named after her, for an expedition-style cruise, departing in May 2022.
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Our knowledge and expertise set us apart. So too our curiosity. It is this that drives us to create a journey that is really bespoke to you, all the while ensuring we travel and operate sustainably.
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