Heritage Expeditions releases brochure for 2025-2026

Expedition cruise agency Heritage Expeditions lately launched its new Authentic Small Ship Expedition Cruising 2025-2026 brochure.

This most up-to-date launch contains two new voyages to Japan and a cruise trade first within the Philippines, alongside Heritage Expeditions’ iconic journey cruises.

Commercial director and expedition chief Aaron Russ stated the family-owned and -operated firm was excited to announce one other season of sharing the world’s best-kept secrets and techniques with its intrepid travellers and supporting the distant communities and conservation of the wild and distant locations they go to.

What’s new this 12 months?

Highlights of the brand new brochure embrace new Japan voyages, Eternally Sacred Japan and Discover the Islands of Japan, alongside plans for one other trade first for the main expedition cruise firm: visiting Polillo Island within the Philippines on its Asian Island Odyssey voyage.

Russ stated: “We expect to make cruise history during this season as the first expedition ship to visit the remote tropical outpost of Polillo Island. It has the perfect mix of unexplored paradisiacal island, incredible wildlife both above and below the water and a fascinating conservation history.”

The new brochure likewise encapsulates Heritage Expeditions’ enterprise ethos based mostly on the luxurious of expertise and making a distinction by way of genuine expedition journey.

As Russ places it: “Many of the opportunities and experiences on our voyages are exclusive to Heritage Expeditions, whether it’s joining Malaita’s Kwaio people in a dance so sacred it can only be observed if you are invited to take part on our Discover the Secrets of Melanesia voyage, assisting Professor Tim Flannery to discover new mammal species on our Indonesian Explorer expedition, or joining leading penguin scientist Professor Steve Emslie collecting samples at the world’s largest and oldest Adelie Penguin colony in Antarctica on our In the Wake of Scott and Shackleton voyage, these really are once-in-a-lifetime opportunities.”

Life-changing voyages

Heritage Expeditions Authentic Small Ship Expedition Cruising 2025-2026 brochure additionally options the corporate’s life-changing voyages exploring Australia’s Kimberley coast, rarely-visited New Zealand locations accessible solely by sea, all the way down to the distant, wilderness and wildlife havens of Australia and New Zealand’s Subantarctic Islands, and ‘into the heart of Antarctica’ the Ross Sea aboard its luxurious, 140-guest expedition flagship Heritage Adventurer.

While extra intimate explorations of the ice-carved fiords of Fiordland, the primordial wilderness of Stewart and Ulva Islands, and the breathtaking great thing about Marlborough Sounds and Abel Tasman National Park aboard 18-guest expedition yacht Heritage Explorer had been honed by the corporate’s greater than 40 years of exploration of those areas.