And you can do so wearing tuxedos and dining under chandeliers, snacking in jeans, enjoying five-star luxury or the excitement of an expedition cruise in wild waters.

If you pick a small expedition cruise, or a river cruise, all the tours are usually included, so everybody travels around together.

When you are on an expedition cruise to a far-flung corner of the globe it takes an ingenious chef to conjure up fresh dishes for the menu of the day.

It will specialise in expedition cruises aboard purpose-built vessels, above right.

Although the students made it safely back to shore, the expedition leader was overwhelmed by the current and carried out to sea.

Later, back on board ship, our expedition leader asked how many passengers had talked to penguins, and a forest of hands went up.

My job, as a travel researcher and expedition leader, was not hugely conducive to long-term relationships.

He was an experienced expedition leader, who sought to research and develop better meals to take on these journeys.

Prepare to be pampered by butler service and energised by expert expedition leaders.

Each of the expedition members got a birthday present of 25 raisins.

On the night after the burial the expedition members gathered in one tent.

He accepted with alacrity and the expedition members became friends for life.

The mountain will now be closed for the rest of the season, costing expedition members and organisers tens of thousands of dollars.

Overall the survey was successful and celebrated by naming certain features on the island after expedition members.

These are treacherous waters, mind, and to do them justice you need a small expedition ship, able to navigate narrow channels and moor at the dinkiest ports.

It was created as an expedition ship and to test the operation of a new kind of marine propulsion system, the turbosail.

Expedition ships increasingly offer fine dining, fully appointed cabins and spas, so while the journey might be about rugged adventure and exploration, the onboard creature comforts are not sacrificed.

But thanks to a new generation of expedition ships, today's would-be explorers can follow in their footsteps in sumptuous style.

Ocean liners, super yachts and expedition ships dock at its international wharf on average once a week.

So he's first in line to join the expedition to the rainforest with his pals.

The third plane was to have been a new design, which was not completed in time to join the expedition.

Land was offered as an incentive to adventurers to sign up as soldiers and join the expedition.

He signed up to join an expedition on a warship, with the aim of becoming a naval officer, but illness prevented them from achieving this goal.

His followers decided to join the expedition.

He explained about the routes to reach these places, and offered to lead an expedition for the king.

He submitted an outline plan to seize the city and offered to lead the expedition.

The small size of the force at his disposal made him initially reluctant to lead the expedition.

He ended his speech by declaring his willingness to lead an expedition there himself.

He intended to lead the expedition personally.

It sounds like the sort of minor upheaval that a gunboat or three, a small military expedition or some chequebook diplomacy might cure.

Loch in person led a joint naval and military expedition against him; landed, and threaded the way by a narrow path through thick jungle.

However, that expedition was not a military expedition.

Although the military expedition was a failure, the road continued to be used afterwards.

The goal of the military expedition, according to the governor, was to convince them of...

On a bad night, however, theatregoing can resemble a polar expedition.

Technicians spent two years reducing the weight of the radar system from 100kg to a manageable 4kg for the polar expedition.

The industrialists behind many a polar expedition may not have had logos, but the explorers gave their names to the lands they discovered.

Friends are planning to complete the last 30 miles of his journey and dedicate a polar expedition later this year in his memory.

Which chapters were more demanding to write; those about the polar expedition or those about the next world?

According to one of the doctors taking part in this extraordinary scientific expedition, you enter a dreamlike state as you approach the summit.

In a breathlessly exciting second series, he also flies over a giant open-cast diamond mine, eats frozen raw horsemeat and goes on a remarkable scientific expedition.

It was sold to their superiors as a scientific expedition.

A scientific expedition to the area later discovered that the earthquake signal had been set off by a colossal landslide that struck about 20km away from the village.

The plot follows a scientific expedition trapped on a remote island inhabited by atomically mutated giant crabs.