Great Bear Rainforest Tours by SailNational Geographic Tour of a Lifetime 2010/2011 |
Great Bear Rainforest Tours by Sail
Bella Bella, BC, Canada
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9 Days from $4,180* per person
Provider: Maple Leaf Adventures Cruise British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest, guided by the expert crew and naturalist of the 92-foot schooner Maple Leaf.Also called the Inside Passage, the Great Bear Rainforest is a land of fjords, mountains, rainforests and great river estuaries. Here, you can view grizzly bears, the mysterious white Spirit Bear, whales and, if you're lucky, wolves. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., calls it “the last stand of the great North American rainforest.”See the Wildlife and Nature of One of Earth's Great Wild… more |
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Haida Gwaii/Queen Charlotte Islands Tour - with Gwaii Haanas |
Haida Gwaii/Queen Charlotte Islands Tour - with Gwaii Haanas
Masset Airport, Haida Gwaii, Masset, BC, Canada
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9 Days from $4,640* per person
Provider: Maple Leaf Adventures This is the Queen Charlotte Islands, or Haida Gwaii: A hundred and thirty islands at the edge of North America. Rainforests draped with moss. Humpbacks rising from the ocean. An ancient culture with modern villages and old ones where the remains of beautiful totems and houses stand above wild beaches.Join the Maple Leaf for a multi-day adventure tour of Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage site aboard a classic schooner.Accompanied by wonderful naturalists, many of them actively researching… more |
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Gulf Islands, B.C., Canada Tour With National Park Reserve |
Gulf Islands, B.C., Canada Tour With National Park Reserve
Sidney, BC, Canada
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6 Days from $2,225* per person
Provider: Maple Leaf Adventures Some people who visit the Gulf Islands, B.C., think they've stumbled into Paradise. This group of hundreds of semi-mediterranean Islands in a protected sea has drawn people for millennia, with its green and gold slopes, blue ocean and ring of snow-capped peaks.Although Salt Spring Island is the most well-known, a trip on the schooner Maple Leaf takes you to scores of beautiful islets most people will never have a chance to see.Islands in the Salish SeaStep aboard and enter a… more |
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Whales & Totems Tour Of The Great Bear Rainforest |
Whales & Totems Tour Of The Great Bear Rainforest
Airport, Port McNeill, BC, Canada
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7 Days from $2,650* per person
Provider: Maple Leaf Adventures Among the 200+ islands of the Broughton Archipelago, the orcas have come for millennia to eat salmon. The salmon support the Kwakwaka'wakw peoples, too, and a colourful frontier culture.On Maple Leaf's Whales and Totems whale watching cruise, discover this island world, where people live in houses that float on water, where it's possible to listen to whale song as you dine, and where white beaches turn out to be the shell middens from thousands of years of human villages.In the… more |
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Alaska Adventures: Small Ship Cruise By Sail |
Alaska Adventures: Small Ship Cruise By Sail
Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada
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12 Days from $6,090* per person
Provider: Maple Leaf Adventures Glaciers, whales and the last frontierMillions of people visit southeast Alaska for its grandeur and frontier history. But a fraction of these people will actually visit Alaska’s wilderness.On this Alaska adventure, get close to wild Alaska’s tidewater glaciers, humpback whales and enter the ancient rainforests. This small ship cruise, sailing aboard the classic schooner Maple Leaf, is for the adventurous who seek the road less travelled.Trip DescriptionSoutheast Alaska breathes majesty with every breath. It is a pristine wilderness of fjords,… more |
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Galapagos Islands Adventure Cruise |
Galapagos Islands Adventure Cruise
Airport, Ecuador near Quito, Ecuador
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11 Days from $5,250* per person
Provider: Maple Leaf Adventures A Galapagos tour, sometimes called a Galapagos cruise, offers a nature-lover's dream: encounters with wildlife that is unafraid of humans.The Galapagos Islands, in all their dramatic and desolate volcanic beauty, lie 600 miles west of mainland Ecuador's Pacific coast. This living natural laboratory, inspiration for Darwin's theory of evolution, is home to marine and land creatures - some found nowhere else to the world - which have no instinctive fear of humans.Travelers sailing around the islands, one of the greatest… more |
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Tall Sails & Ales Tour |
Tall Sails & Ales Tour
Sidney airport, BC, Canada
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6 Days from $2,390* per person
Provider: Maple Leaf Adventures For a twist on the typical beer tour, join B.C.'s Tall Sails & Ales Cruise and discover the rich flavours and colourful history of the province's micro-brewing industry.Arguably as diverse as wine in their flavours, the 50 fine beers included on this tasting tour introduce you to the range of options, from the crisp, cold Swans' Arctic Ale to the chocolate creaminess of Gulf Islands Brewery's Saturna Island Extra Stout.Add to that the guidance of B.C. brewing experts, succulent food… more |
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Painting Holiday in the Haida Islands at the Edge of the World |
Painting Holiday in the Haida Islands at the Edge of the World
Masset Airport, Haida Gwaii, Masset, BC, Canada
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9 Days from $4,550* per person
Provider: Maple Leaf Adventures Like art vacations as well as the coastal world? Then an Art at Sea trip on the Maple Leaf might be perfect for you.On these special painting holidays, exceptional artists who are also excellent teachers take just eight students into the coastal B.C. wilderness aboard the classic schooner Maple Leaf for focused lessons in painting nature and coastal scenes.The limited number of students allows for one-on-one instruction, in addition to the small-group lessons.This art vacation also includes hallmarks of all… more |
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