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South Georgia & The Falklands / 20 Days

South Georgia & The Falklands
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Itinerary Overview
Offer: Make a new booking by October 29 and receive up to $2,000 off on select departure dates & cabin categories, while they last. Plus, complimentary charter airfare (round-trip between Santiago & Ushuaia) is offered on select 2011 departures. We encourage you to call us at 1-800-EXPEDITION (1-800-397-3348) to find out if there are special rates that you may take advantage of.

BE OUR GUEST
Choose the October 18, 2010
South Georgia & the Falklands voyage for
5 extra days WITH OUR COMPLIMENTS
to explore Buenos Aires & the wildlife-rich
Valdes Peninsula. PLUS, Take up to $2,000 off.

Click here for Oct. 2010 itinerary details.

If the epic stories of discovery, endurance and polar explorers like Shackleton, or the sheer magnificence of ice-capped peaks don’t grab you, the wildlife certainly will: penguins (king, gentoo and macaroni), sea lions, fur seals and enormous elephant seals cozy up to these shores. Only here on South Georgia can you observe one of the world's great wildlife spectacles: literally, 100,000 king penguins on a single beach. This is the expedition for wildlife or photography enthusiasts, or for those who have already been to Antarctica and want more.

Decades of exploring South Georgia and the Falklands has given the Lindblad staff the expertise and time needed to survey the islands' terrain for hiking routes, as well as to uncover important landing spots that we will now be able to call on with ease. You'll go by Zodiac and kayak where few have gone.

When to go? Nowhere is springtime as intense as in the southern ocean. In October, the land is fueled by sunlight and food and life here explodes in a frantic race to breed. Spring is the best time to see the raucous courtship behavior of the penguins: calling for mates and flashing and preening their bright colors. Then in March, late summer in the Antarctic region, the chicks have hatched and grown a fuzzy brown down of feathers. You can walk the beaches as thousands of king parents go about their busy lives, taking turns bringing food to their chick.

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.

Day 1 U.S./Santiago, Chile
Day 2 Santiago
Day 3 Santiago/Ushuaia, Argentina/Embark Ship
Day 4 At Sea—South Atlantic Ocean
Day 5-6 Falkland Islands
Day 7-8 At Sea
Day 9-14 South Georgia Island
Day 15-16 At Sea
Day 17 Falkland Islands
Day 18 At Sea
Day 19 Ushuaia, Argentina/Disembark/Santiago
Day 20 Arrive U.S./Home
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