GoNOMAD Travel articles about cruises. But the kind of cruises we pay the most attention to are the unique ones, the unusual cruises that people tend to never forget. If you like cruising the ocean but want something smaller, something more special, we’re sure you will enjoy our selection of features below about unusual cruises.
A West Coast Cruise: Catalina Island, San Diego, San Francisco, Victoria, Vancouver. By Jason McKenney My parents have always been travelers. When an opportunity came up recently to take a ship cruise with them near my new home in California I leaped at the chance. My parents still live in Kentucky…
A Winding, Quixotic Journey Down A Turkish River By Kristina Kulyabina Imagine traveling down the Turkish Meander River for 550 km in a one-man canoe. Travel writer Jeremy Seal made this into his reality, which he impeccably captures within his novel Meander: East to West Along a Turkish River. Seal…
Antigua’s Sailing Week Regatta, enjoying English harbor in this British-tinged former colony where the tradition of sailboat racing is upheld.
By cargo ship, to the Amazon. A four day trip to Iquitos, Brazil on a cargo ship
Key Largo Florida: A girlfriend’s houseboat getaway. Kate Hartshorne and friends visit Key Largo. Tips on where to rent houseboats in the Florida Keys.
Antiqua, Leeward Islands, Caribbean. A visit that includes donkey rides and ziplines on a former British colony where sailors gather for race week.
Twice Around the World aboard the Yacht Scorpius tales of sailing the Arctic in a yacht based out of Russia.
Galapagos, Ecuador where you can cruise the islands and come up close to some of nature’s most amazing animals and reptiles
Cruise West Greenland: A region steeped in ancient indigenous traditions By Peter Sacco Greenland is one of the most stunning, rugged and inspirational travel destinations on Earth, and though parts of the country do enjoy a steady travel industry, it is an undeniably remote location. With a sled-dog population that rivals…
Paradise Found: Sailing The Spanish Virgin Islands By Jean Miller Spoljaric My tan lines may have faded, but my memories of circumnavigating the Spanish Virgin Islands on a 38’ sailboat will last forever. It’s pretty much the norm that most people plan land vacations, but until you’ve spent a week…
a profile of many cruising options available for religious and spiritual themed cruises including Christian, Jewish and New Age
Cape Horn, at the Very Bottom of Chile By Kent E St John I am the albatross that awaits you At the end of the world. I am the forgotten souls of dead mariners Who passed Cape Horn From all the oceans of the world. But they did not die…
