A trip to Antarctica is not your average holiday. It is a life-changing experience into a new world that can never be forgotten, a chance to step outside the fast paced ways of modern living into a land where nature still reigns supreme.

While on a cruise encounter huge tabular ice bergs, pristine glaciers, ice floes, jagged peaks and white expanses as far as the eye can see. You are guanteed to come home with some spectacular photgraphs of you trip. The Antarctic is nature’s playground; there is nowhere else in the world quite like it.

Visit crowded penguin rookeries, abuzz with penguins going about their affairs, be greeted on the beach by seals making their way to or from the nutrient rich waters to feed and watch out for whales including Humpback, Minke and Orca.

Above, the elegant Albatross soars and the silence is broken by the calls of an amazing variety of birds who call this place home. Antarctica has a lesson for all of us and it is an unforgettable experience witnessing up close these creatures living together in harmony in a truly untamed wilderness.

This compact adventure offers you the very best of Antarctica: exploring vast penguin colonies; the opportunity of sighting Minke whales, leopard seals and other unique wildlife; visiting historic research bases and enjoying unforgettable walks on the White Continent surrounded by snowcapped peaks, giant tabular icebergs and crystal-blue seas - 10 nights/11 days

Join a select group of travellers who have journeyed to the world's southernmost extremes and crossed that imaginary line in the polar sea: the Antarctic Circle. En route, you sail deep blue waters among calving glaciers and tabular icebergs; explore gentoo, chinstrap and Adelie penguin colonies on the Antarctic Peninsula; then venture still further south along the White Continent as the ship probes the edge of the pack ice - 11 nights/12 days

Having travelled to the extremes of the Southern Hemisphere-explore the historic Falkland Islands and remote South Georgia and then make your way to the Antarctic Peninsula. This is the ideal small ship expedition. From Shackleton's lonely grave to spectacular Iceberg Alley to Zodiac landings at remote penguin colonies and other areas rich with wildlife, come follow the early explorers on a remarkable Antarctic experience - 18 nights/19 days