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Top 10 Small Ship Adventures

Listed below are our travelers' favorite OAT Small Ship adventures; the top trips they have enjoyed time and again.

1. Cairo & the Eternal Nile River   15 days

 

Small Ship Adventures

Cairo • Aswan • Luxor • Nile cruise

 

Antiquity defines all things Egyptian. Merchants exchange goods in bustling souks from Cairo to Luxor much as they have for thousands of years. Pyramids rise from desert sands, witness to countless generations, keepers of ancient secrets.

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2. Machu Picchu & the Galápagos  16 days

 

Small Ship Adventures

Lima • Cuzco • Machu Picchu • Galápagos • Quito

  

Follow in the footsteps of the ancients as you explore the magnificent ruins of the “Lost City of the Incas” … swim in an unspoiled cove, a rollicking sea lion your playmate … peer into the limpid eyes of a giant sea turtle. Two of Latin America's most important cultural and natural marvels await your discovery on this singular adventure: the legendary ruins of Machu Picchu and Ecuador's Galápagos Islands—a living laboratory of Darwin's landmark theory of evolution


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3. The Wilderness Beyond: Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego & the Chilean Fjords
14 days

 

Small Ship Adventures

Buenos Aires • Tores del Paine • Beagle Channel • Cape Horn • Glacier Alley • Chilean Fjords & Tierra del Fuego Cruise • Ushuaia

 

Join us on an epic adventure to some of the most dramatic and unspoiled landscapes on earth: Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. On OAT’s southernmost adventure in the Americas you’ll enjoy a firsthand look at the legendary landscapes of Argentina and Chile as only a small group can.

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4. Panama Canal Cruise & Panama: A Continent Divided, Oceans United  11 days

 

Small Ship Adventures

Panama City • Coclé • Gamboa Rain Forest • Panama Canal Cruise • Panama Railway Train

 

On our newest OAT Small Ship Adventure we’ll take three nights to complete our full daylight transit of this manmade marvel aboard our privately chartered, 24-passenger catamaran, the Discovery. Along the way, we’ll dock overnight so we can explore the spectacular rain forest that blankets Panama from the Pacific to the Caribbean via Zodiacs and kayaks.

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5. Hidden Gems of the Dalmatian Coast & Greece   16 days

 

Small Ship Adventures

Zagreb • Plitvice Lakes • Split • Hvar • Korcula • Dubrovnik • Bay of Kotor, Montenegro • Butrint, Albania • Corfu • Delphi • Corinth Canal • Athens

  

For more than a millenium, travelers have been enchanted by Croatia. The stunning natural splendor of the landscape lured kings and commoners alike. Turquoise lakes linked by soaring waterfalls ... islands covered in lavender and myrtle ... whitewashed villages perched on sunbaked cliffs. You're sure to agree that Croatia is the "Jewel of the Adriatic" as you cruise the Dalmatian Coast aboard our private small ship for 10 or 11 nights.

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6. Imperial China, Tibet & the Yangtze River  22 days

 

Small Ship Adventures

Beijing • Xian • Yangtze River • Lhasa, Tibet • Chengdu • Hong Kong

 

Terra cotta soldiers guard an ancient emperor's tomb ... a royal palace forbidden to visitors for centuries opens its doors in welcome ... the largest dam in the world harnesses the power of a mighty river while flooding thousands of years of history, altering the face of a country forever. In China, the past, the present, and the future are alive, vital, and inextricably mixed.

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7. Turkey's Magical Hideaways  17 days

 

Small Ship Adventures

Istanbul • Cappadocia • Antalya • Turquoise Coast • Ephesus

 

From the glittering Turquoise Coast to Istanbul's legendary Bosporus Strait, Turkey is awash in history: home to ten thousand years of culture, the world's first city, and prodigious sultans who created glorious empires from volcanic soil.

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8. Cruising the Red Sea: Egypt, Sinai, Saudi Arabia & Jordan
16 days

 

Small Ship Adventures

Cairo • Alexandria • Red Sea Cruise with Sinai • Aqaba • Petra • Hurghada

 

Discover lands traversed by prophets, pilgrims, and warriors since the dawn of civilization on a new Small Ship Adventure that journeys across the timelines of history.

 

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9. Treasures of the Aegean: Greek Island Cruise, Athens & Istanbul 16 days

 

Small Ship Adventures

Athens • Meteora • Delphi • Greek Islands including Mykonos, Santorini & Patmos • Ephesus • Istanbul

 

Cruising aboard a private vessel, you'll explore millennia-old settlements storied as the birthplaces of mythic heroes. The architectural splendor of Tinos . . . volcanic Santorini . . . the ancient island of Delos . . . In every port of call you'll savor a blend of natural beauty and rich history. And then return to the comfort of our small ship every night, cruising onward through the timeless seascape.

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10. Antarctica’s White Wilderness
15 days

 

Small Ship Adventures

Buenos Aires • Expedition Cruise in Antarctica and South Shetland Islands • Tierra del Fuego

 

Join the ranks of the privileged few and experience this vast continent for yourself. Antarctica will change you—the extraordinary plenitude, the profound stillness, and the sure knowledge that you are visiting one of the last pure places on earth.

 

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