I'm not a member, so I can't see the details, but if the Arctic cruise loops around to eastern Greenland, that one wins hands down. I'm not terribly excited about Ilulissat, but the coast of northeast Greenland is currently #2 on my bucket list.
I'd do the Silk Road one. It hits so many different regions that I'd never put that itinerary together myself, and having an expert along to really explain the history would probably enhance the experience a lot.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. Mark Twain
Post by wanderlustfoodie on Aug 12, 2013 19:44:29 GMT -5
These trips always sound so great when I read them but I am such a travel-planning addict I don't know that I would ever feel comfortable choosing a trip that was already completely arranged. Half the fun is in the planning!
The only way I could get excited about one of these is if it was an area I just really felt I couldn't do on my own, like an Antarctic cruise. Of these, the Silk Road sounds the most interesting to me. I've been to some of the cities in that itinerary already (Xi'an, Istanbul) but would love to go back and that trip sounds fascinating. But invariably once I start reading these, I think to myself, "Hm, I could do this better."