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"The flexibility and freedom to choose and kayak at own speed."
Adventure Options
Optional Activities available on Adventure Ships
Kayaking, camping, mountaineering, and cross-country skiing are offered in a number of combinations on every departure of Antarctic Adventure. Kayaking and camping are offered on Classic Antarctica aboard Lyubov Orlova.
What is it like to camp in the Antarctic?.
Past campers tell us that they spent most of the night outside their tents absorbing the silence. They reluctantly communicated in whispers, as they found speaking intrusive. During the few hours of darkness that fall they are tempted to reach overhead, because the stars seem near enough to touch. Campers from the Northern Hemisphere find the constellations unfamiliar, adding to the other-worldliness of the experience. All participants report that camping deepens their understanding of Antarctica in countless ways. The cost of camping for expeditions between November 2009 and March 2010 is $195 per person.
What is it like to cross-country ski the Peninsula?
Antarctic cross-country skiers often talk about the anticipation that builds as they gear up for the trail, and the anticipation - the twisting of the upper torso into the direction of a turn when skiing - that will soon follow. Skiers tell us that the moment that feeling and action coincide is sublime, pure and intense, like the landscape they are exploring. Cross-country skiing costs $550 between November 2009 and March 2010.
What is it like to climb an Antarctic mountain?
The elemental nature of the activity lingers with Antarctic climbers: heart beats, stretched muscles, and wind whistling through the lines. They speak of hand holds formed by ancient rocks, and steep ice-covered slopes overhead, forcing a scramble, before the advance continues. And finally, with humor, they tell of the glissade, that last descent on the return that turns each of them in to children for one brief moment as they slide. Mountaineering costs $550 between November 2009 and March 2010.
What is it like to kayak in the Antarctic?
There is a lot to do within the first few moments of entering a kayak. Once you are settled and have a feel for the paddle in your hands, you will turn your attention to the surroundings. That is the moment, so our kayakers tell us, when you will truly understand that the experience of paddling in Antarctica is like no other. Crystal clear water supports the hull. Elemental sounds of water lapping and the drip of resting paddles are a counterpoint to the cry of penguins and the cracking of ancient ice. Dwarfed by the immensity of the landscape, for a short while you drift in awe. Kayaking costs $795 between November 2009 and March 2010.