Bentours launches cruise brochure – Antarctica to Greenland
Bentours has launched its first-ever brochure dedicated solely to its popular cruise offerings. The new brochure includes Antarctica, the Baltic Sea, Chilean Fjords, Greenland, the Norwegian Coast, Russia, Spitsbergen and Sweden.
New for 2007 is the brand new ship MS Fram, which will embark on its maiden journey to Greenland from the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik on 27 May 2007. During European summer, the vessel will cruise Greenland, and later in the year it will be based in Ushuaia, Argentina, for its Antarctica cruises.
With MS Fram, Bentours will offer three new Greenland cruises and one additional in Antarctica.
The three new Greenland cruises are: the 13-day East/South Greenland Cruise, which sails from Reykjavik to the eastern and southern Greenland coasts, travelling through the inland ice cap, calving glaciers, lush green mountains and crystal blue fjords; the nine day Disko Bay Cruise, which focuses on the western part of Greenland, with its enormous fjord systems with skerries and icebergs; and the 16-day Disko Bay and Thule Cruise, which takes passengers closer to the North Pole than ever before, cruising as far north as Siorapaluk.
All Greenland cruises depart Copenhagen and include flights to Iceland and/or Greenland, all meals, some excursions and transfers. The East/South Greenland Cruise departs 27 May and 6 September and prices start at $6,766pp. The Disko Bay Cruise departs 7, 14, 21 and 28 June, 5, 12, 19 and 26 July and 2 August and prices start at $4,234pp. The Disko Bay and Thule Cruise departs 9 and 23 August and prices start at $8,240pp.
Bentours’ new 60-page brochure also includes what Lonely Planet has named the most beautiful voyage in the world: Hurtigruten, the unique cruise that’s calls at 34 ports on the stunning Norwegian coast line.
Other highlights include Sweden’s premier attraction, the Gota Canal cruise; a wide range of Chilean Fjord and Antarctica cruises; the remote Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, Europe’s doorway into the High Arctic; Russian river cruising; and the Baltic Sea.
Bentours’ Chilean Fjord and Antarctica cruise departing 18 February, 2007, will have special guest Felicity Byrnes, Australia’s own adventure journalist, onboard. Byrnes is the great granddaughter of the famous Australian expedition photographer Frank Hurley, who was stranded in Antarctica for 22 months between 1914 and 1916 with his expedition leader Ernest Shackleton during his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition onboard the ship Endurance.
Byrnes will host a seminar onboard on Frank Hurley. She will not focus entirely on Frank the photographer, but also Frank the person and his family life. After his Antarctica adventures, Hurley went on to become one of Australia’s most famous war photographers and was awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) for his work in 1941.
For more information please visit www.bentours.com.au or phone 02 9247 3381, for reservations phone 1800 221 712.
Report by The Mole
John Alwyn-Jones
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