Cruise Ship Adventures with Nigel Marven

Cruise ships ply the Caribbean for sun sea and sand but on our voyage we introduce passengers and crew to extraordinary and littleknown creatures Nigel takes Garin Bader a Las Vegas illusionist to meet giant lizards on Richard Bransons exclusive Necker Island resort And at the end of the voyage in Miami the ships Captain takes a masterclass in alligator wrestling

Traveling from mainland Scandinavia to remote and rugged islands in the North Sea Nigel takes passengers on an adventure to see minke whales and whitebeaked dolphins In the Danish capital of Copenhagen a stones throw from the Little Mermaid Nigel lures in insect royalty with red wine and bananas

On this voyage around the sunsoaked Greek islands Nigel revels in the natural wonders of this ancient world In Athens itself he reveals how a little owl was the reason for coins with two faces the origin of heads and tails In Santorini he takes the ships ballroom stars and singers to dance with fishes and mountain climbs in Crete to find soaring griffin vultures

Nigel travels ahead of the cruise ship to adventure deep into the Costa Rican countryside He beachcombs with tapirs and faces down dangerous whitelipped peccaries wild pigs with colossal teeth After journeying through the Panama Canal the centuryold engineering marvel thats the worlds most famous shortcut Nigel takes cruise ship entertainers to meet adorable baby sloths

Sailing in the wake of the great explorers this voyage takes us along the fabled Spice Route In the bustling metropolis of Mumbai there are flying foxes and urban leopards in the city In the Maldives Nigel takes passengers to dive with manta rays On a short stop in Sri Lanka were amazed by Asian elephants and awestruck by a blue whale the largest animal thats ever lived

Setting out from the tango capital of Buenos Aires the ship sails south to reach the rugged and aweinspiring Antarctic Peninsula As whales swim past and penguins porpoise alongside the ship icebergs are a constant threat Further north at Tierra del Fuego Nigel takes passengers searching for the massive Magellanic Woodpecker and then to the Falkland Islands to see the Gentoo Penguins