The Kuril Islands & Kamchatka cruise

Why Join This Cruise:

A rare, privileged opportunity to visit a remote and little known corner of the world, offering dramatic scenery and fabulous wildlife
This 11 day expeditionary cruise offers something for everyone: Amazing birds, bears, cetaceans, botany and a rich history!
A very good overview of Kamchatka, the northern Kuril and Commander Islands
Excellent chance of sighting a number of different types of cetaceans, including orca, humpback, sperm, fin and grey, who come to these waters to breed
Good chance of seeing brown bears, which are coming down to the river to fish for salmon coming upriver to spawn
Unbelievable wild flowers
Starts and finishes in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy which makes logistics easier, with your accommodation the night before embarkation included as part of this voyage
Travel aboard a small (max. 50) ice-strengthened vessel, ensuring a very personalised expeditionary experience and ease of logistics on landings
Pre and post voyage land-based extensions available

Trip Overview
This breathtaking expedition offers you the opportunity to explore one of the most geologically active and biologically rich parts of the planet. An area very few have visited and which was totally closed off during the communist era. The Kamchatka Peninsula is a land of stunning bays and snow-capped volcanoes, whose alpine meadows and lowland forests support a great diversity of flora and fauna.

The Kuril and Commander Islands chain are also rich in bird and sea mammal life.The seas washing these isolated coasts are among the most productive in the world with the whole area literally teeming with birds and marine mammals. Huge bird colonies dot the cliffs and large seal rookeries are scattered along the coast. Pods of orcas up to a hundred strong have been spotted, while millions of swarming auklets inside the caldera at Yankicho Island is phenomenal.