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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.
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.
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”.
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.
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01285 601 784Why 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.
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