Under the Spell of South Georgia. Famed for its astonishing number of king penguins — literally, hundreds of thousands — South Georgia is the ultimate destination for jaw-dropping scenery, boundless wildlife and captivating history, and it will affect the way you tell stories about travel and wildlife adventures for years to come.

We offer the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to spend a week on the island as part of our 20-day South Georgia & the Falklands voyage. Decades of exploring South Georgia has given the Lindblad staff the expertise and time needed to survey the island's terrain for hiking routes, as well as to uncover important landing spots that we will now be able to call on with ease.

If the epic stories of discovery, endurance and polar explorers like Shackleton, or the sheer magnificence and stunning beauty of the towering ice-capped peaks don’t grab you, the wildlife certainly will. There’ll be time enough with the animals—several species of penguins (king, gentoo and macaroni, to name a few), sea lions, enormous elephant seals and 95 per cent of the world’s population of fur seals cozy up to these shores. Spring is the time to pioneer, to be the first arrivals meandering among the bergs to witness a pristine landscape. Nowhere is springtime as intense as in the southern ocean. By October, as the land is fueled by sunlight and food, life here explodes in a frantic race to breed. It’s the best time to see the raucous courtship behavior of the penguins. Walk these beaches with your spouse or children as thousands of king penguins go about their busy lives: calling for mates and flashing and preening their bright colors in a courtship ritual. Take a more rugged hike and go by Zodiac and kayak where few have gone.