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Antarctica Pride Cruise with Planetdwellers

Planetdwellers & pride tours chile, proudly present, antarctica pride cruise departing february 2025.

A dream come true - Just imagine…..

Crossing the Drake Passage in full pride & splendor then standing on the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula Spending the day watching whales breaching alongside your expedition ship.

Exploring Antarctica in a luxurious expedition vessel.

Take part in the gayest of gay polar plunges surrounded by your tribe to cheer you on.

Witness extraordinary wildlife including thriving penguin colonies on the Ice, seabirds, whales and seals dancing through the waves.

Zodiac cruising through mirror-ball-like waters in secluded bays and quiet coves filled with brash ice.

Photograph enormous glaciers & spectacularly shaped icebergs in all the rainbows shades of blue.

Admiring landscapes of ice-clad mountains then hiking to remote vantage points across the mountains, up snow-covered ridgelines to vantage points with mountains towering overhead and ice-speckled oceans below Onboard, enjoy a glass or two of bubbles, as you indulge in one of the ondeck jacuzzi's drifting past icebergs, watching the whales breach in foreground.

Weather permitting, experience the serene sunset of a 23 hour day, with the stars gently coming out as the moon rises over the icy continent in front of you.

At the end of the day on the icebergs and zodiacs, and you've packed away your Catwalk inspired waterproof, polar expedition jackets (included to keep of course!), our evenings will be yours to enjoy the specially curated hosted events onboard, relaxing with like minded souls celebrating the experience only Planetdwellers & Pride Tours can present!

Our journey ends with an included one way charter flight from King George Island to Punta Arenas, Chile allowing expansive, extraordinary, from the air, once-in-a-lifetime views!

Your final morning, wake up in Patagonia before our farewell breakfast.

A truly unforgettable must-do LGBT+ celebration on Antarctica waters.

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Included highlights of Oxford Street and the surrounding neighborhoods. Our guide, Mario, was very knowledgeable about the history of the local scene including bars, saunas, restaurants, etc. Highly Recommend!

By far the best day I had in Syndey! Barry was awesome, couldn't ask for a better person to spend the day with. He went way above and beyond to make I great day and was just a wealth of knowledge about all of Australia. If your going to be in Australia I definitely recommend getting in touch with planet dwellers you can't go wrong with them

Me and my partner had booked our ticket in advance before travelling to Australia. When in Sydney we popper in to Planetdwellers office with one or two questions. There we greeted by Barry and Mario, great guys. The cruise was great. Everyone in great mood, some dressed up for the occasion others were quite smart and casual. Great mix of people from all around Australia and the world. I think all of Planetdwellers team stopped by and talked with us. Seeing Sydney at sunset from the waters is just amazing and even better when on party boat where everyone is having a great time. Well done guys. Hope to see you in Iceland sometime.

Hello,Thank you for your great feedback. It was so lovely meeting you in our office once you had arrived into Sydney all the way from beautiful Iceland. We are so happy you booked our sunset cruise and even happier you enjoyed it. See you in Iceland one day or back in Sydney perhaps. Take care!

Mario was a wonderful tour guide. I could have spent all day walking around and listening to him! Very fun and informative.

Thank you Shannen, it was a fun walk on the eve of such a huge weekend, glad you enjoyed it. Keep in touch next time you are back visting from Perth. Mario

It was a great experience with Barry as my guide. He was punctual, well-organised, and provided excellent commentary about the Featherdale Wildlife Park and its animals and birds, Sydney, and Sydneysiders, including LGBT. This Park is one of the best small wildlife parks in Australia. I watched, in particular, penguin-, echidna- and crocodile feeding, all accompanied with informative and friendly commentary by the park staff. I also enjoyed the Parramatta River and Sydney Harbour cruise from Parramatta to Circular Quay. I highly recommend this tour and this company.

To say I had a great experience with PlanetDwellers would be an understatement. This was the first time I was in Sydney and every time I travel I look for gay companies/restaurants/clothing stores etc. to support the local community. Also in my research for my trip,I knew I had to check out the Blue Mountains. PlanetDwellers had great selections for me to get to know the Gayborhood via the walking tour and to go to the Blue Mountains tour with a 13-ish hour tour that included either the Jenolan Caves or Featherdale Wildlife Park. I was planning on going to the famous Taronga Zoo, so I chose the caves. My first experience was with Mario, he was very good at following up with me via email prior to my arrival. Mario was also my tour guide for the Walking Tour on my first day and arrived right on time at the meeting spot. For the next few hours he not only showed me around, but gave me a bit of a history lesson on the area. It was obvious from the way in which he presented his knowledge of the area that not only did he really know what he was talking about but also was deeply connected to the information he was sharing with me. I liked that. He loves being able to do this for newbies like myself to get to know the area and good places to go to eat or dance and paint the picture of what Mardi Gras is like at the height of the excitement. The tour also ended with a drink at a pub which was a really nice end to my first day in Sydney and to just chill for a bit with someone new in a foreign land to me. Like they say in the description - "That's what being a mate is all about." My other tour was a whole other fun ordeal. Arriving promptly at 7:30am Barry and I were quickly off to the Blue Mountains. He had some delicious muffins ready and we stopped at a coffee shop (my only request was needing some morning caffeine). He had a lot of rules - which I say jokingly because most of which solely relied on common sense, except that if he ever went missing on me to be on the lookout for a snake. I was a bit concerned about being the only one on the tour for the day, but after meeting Mario, he said Barry and I would get along just fine. He was right. Barry took me all around the Three Sisters and Orphan Rock to see at different vantage points, including a a walk through Scenic World, and a ride on a cable car. Lunch was fab at the Paragon, which was also a museum and in which they hand make all their chocolates! Throughout the day Barry and I got to know a lot about each other and it was easy to tell - like with Mario - he loves what he does. Barry loves sharing his culture and country with others and he loves equally to learn about where his travelers are from and what their life is like. It was at the Paragon that while revealing the history of the oldest continually operating restaurant in Australia, he revealed a bit of touching family connection to the place. It was a very sweet story which I appreciate him telling. It was like that all day we went back and forth, it wasn't just a tour of these big rocks and him driving me like Ms Daisy or with dance music going in the car, it was more than that. It was about a human connection and understanding of history of cultures. He told stories of the family that owns Scenic World are descendants of the original mine worker, and the story of the rail cars and how that came to be what it is and why people continually visit there. He pointed out a monument of the early settlers of Australia and the aboriginal people and told me of their troubled history together which is a very difficult part of Australian history and brought on the feels in a big way. During our cave tour it was also apparent he was holding back as to not be rude to the man leading us through the caves. Even knowing Barry for such a short amount of time I could feel him wanting to burst out and take over the cave walk through. I must admit that was amusing to see. And I should also point out with all the wildlife Australia has Barry was an awesome driver and was very cautious not to hit any wildlife. And to go as far as warning other drivers after we saw the cutest wallaby with a joey in her pouch coming up to our car to ask for food. As an American these days seeing all the terrible things that have come out of the woodwork in my own country, I believe it's always a good to make that human connection. PlanetDwellers was all about that. You want a cookie cutter stop and see, take a million pictures tour - that was not my experience. I'm sure if that's what you want from them, that is fine and they have no problem with that, but that's not what makes them special and you'd be missing out. I was worried about spending a lot on the 2 tours and then being the only person on them, but they were great! I would do it again in a heartbeat. I would love to go to Featherdale with Barry, and love to even spend Mardi Gras one year with them as well! It sounds like a blast! This was unlike anything I had expected and it seriously touched my heart. I love these guys. 5 out of 5, 10 out of 10, 100% out of 100% My praise can't be high enough!

Matthew!!! Thank you so much for the wonderful review and we love that you had such a good time. Hopefully like a lot of our clients you will be back to OZ one day soon. Love right back!

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A celebratory cruise for members of the LGBTQIA+ community and their allies/supporters, to honour pride in self, the diversity of the community and the endless variety of talented artists, entertainers and educators in it. Our Pride Cruise will be a safe space for members of the community, something curated just for them.

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Cruising the Moskva River: A short guide to boat trips in Russia’s capital

There’s hardly a better way to absorb Moscow’s atmosphere than on a ship sailing up and down the Moskva River. While complicated ticketing, loud music and chilling winds might dampen the anticipated fun, this checklist will help you to enjoy the scenic views and not fall into common tourist traps.

How to find the right boat?

There are plenty of boats and selecting the right one might be challenging. The size of the boat should be your main criteria.

Plenty of small boats cruise the Moskva River, and the most vivid one is this yellow Lay’s-branded boat. Everyone who has ever visited Moscow probably has seen it.

This option might leave a passenger disembarking partially deaf as the merciless Russian pop music blasts onboard. A free spirit, however, will find partying on such a vessel to be an unforgettable and authentic experience that’s almost a metaphor for life in modern Russia: too loud, and sometimes too welcoming. Tickets start at $13 (800 rubles) per person.

Bigger boats offer smoother sailing and tend to attract foreign visitors because of their distinct Soviet aura. Indeed, many of the older vessels must have seen better days. They are still afloat, however, and getting aboard is a unique ‘cultural’ experience. Sometimes the crew might offer lunch or dinner to passengers, but this option must be purchased with the ticket. Here is one such  option  offering dinner for $24 (1,490 rubles).

If you want to travel in style, consider Flotilla Radisson. These large, modern vessels are quite posh, with a cozy restaurant and an attentive crew at your service. Even though the selection of wines and food is modest, these vessels are still much better than other boats.

Surprisingly, the luxurious boats are priced rather modestly, and a single ticket goes for $17-$32 (1,100-2,000 rubles); also expect a reasonable restaurant bill on top.

How to buy tickets?

Women holding photos of ships promise huge discounts to “the young and beautiful,” and give personal invitations for river tours. They sound and look nice, but there’s a small catch: their ticket prices are usually more than those purchased online.

“We bought tickets from street hawkers for 900 rubles each, only to later discover that the other passengers bought their tickets twice as cheap!”  wrote  (in Russian) a disappointed Rostislav on a travel company website.

Nevertheless, buying from street hawkers has one considerable advantage: they personally escort you to the vessel so that you don’t waste time looking for the boat on your own.

Prices start at $13 (800 rubles) for one ride, and for an additional $6.5 (400 rubles) you can purchase an unlimited number of tours on the same boat on any given day.

Flotilla Radisson has official ticket offices at Gorky Park and Hotel Ukraine, but they’re often sold out.

Buying online is an option that might save some cash. Websites such as  this   offer considerable discounts for tickets sold online. On a busy Friday night an online purchase might be the only chance to get a ticket on a Flotilla Radisson boat.

This  website  (in Russian) offers multiple options for short river cruises in and around the city center, including offbeat options such as ‘disco cruises’ and ‘children cruises.’ This other  website  sells tickets online, but doesn’t have an English version. The interface is intuitive, however.

Buying tickets online has its bad points, however. The most common is confusing which pier you should go to and missing your river tour.

“I once bought tickets online to save with the discount that the website offered,” said Igor Shvarkin from Moscow. “The pier was initially marked as ‘Park Kultury,’ but when I arrived it wasn’t easy to find my boat because there were too many there. My guests had to walk a considerable distance before I finally found the vessel that accepted my tickets purchased online,” said the man.

There are two main boarding piers in the city center:  Hotel Ukraine  and  Park Kultury . Always take note of your particular berth when buying tickets online.

Where to sit onboard?

Even on a warm day, the headwind might be chilly for passengers on deck. Make sure you have warm clothes, or that the crew has blankets ready upon request.

The glass-encased hold makes the tour much more comfortable, but not at the expense of having an enjoyable experience.

Getting off the boat requires preparation as well. Ideally, you should be able to disembark on any pier along the way. In reality, passengers never know where the boat’s captain will make the next stop. Street hawkers often tell passengers in advance where they’ll be able to disembark. If you buy tickets online then you’ll have to research it yourself.

There’s a chance that the captain won’t make any stops at all and will take you back to where the tour began, which is the case with Flotilla Radisson. The safest option is to automatically expect that you’ll return to the pier where you started.

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Things to do in Moscow for First-Timers

Updated December 14, 2017

// By Margherita

Last August, a dream came true for both myself and Nick – we visited Russia for the first time. We joined the 13-day Waterways of the Tsars cruise with Viking River Cruises, travelling from Moscow to St Petersburg (with some cool stops in between). Here’s our first post, with lots of interesting things to do in Moscow for first timers!

My Moscow Dreams

I’ve always liked to think that Moscow was my first trip ever. My father visited the (then) Soviet capital in 1986, and returned with a mini-bearskin hat and stories about that mysterious country – ‘a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma’ , as Churchill famously defined it.

My dad told me stories, and I dreamt. I dreamt the multicoloured domes of St Basil’s, the crenellated walls of the Kremlin, the metro stations – my dad described them as ‘real underground palaces, with marble and chandeliers’ – I even dreamt of visiting GUM, the legendary department store on Red Square, with luxurious stuccos and dusty, empty shelves.

Moscow fascinated me so much that I imagined I could see it from my bedroom window. Looking east, beyond the station of Milano Lambrate, I could see a dozen red, blocky apartment buildings, and imagined it was Moscow. Deep within myself I knew they weren’t Socialist high-rises, it was Milano Due, the utopic ‘city of the future’ built by Berlusconi at the dawn of the 1980s.

That is probably why when we first visited Moscow last August, the city looked familiar. Many people describe their first visit to New York as a kind of deja-vu, after having seen the city in so many movies. Moscow gave me exactly the same feeling. Because, in a way, I had already been there.

Not just through my dad’s tales and my own childhood daydreaming – but also through books. I walked alongside Dr Zhivago in the streets of post-revolutionary Moscow. I sat next to Anna Karenina as she travelled to the city. Most of all, I walked down the Arbat and flew over the roofs of the city with my namesake heroine, Margarita .

Yet, Moscow eluded us for years , until we finally landed at Sheremetyevo airport one hazy morning, after two aborted landings because of thick fog. From the very first minute, it felt familiar – yet surprised us in ways I couldn’t imagine. No book or photograph prepared us for the magnificence of the Kremlin cathedrals, for the dazzling beauty of the city at night, for the extravagance of the Metro stations.

If you follow our blog regularly, you’ll know that we rarely write about ‘must-sees’ – instead, we try to delve deeper and find unusual things to see and do in the towns we visited. However, as this was our first time in Moscow, we decided to focus on the essentials, and compiled this guide of things to do in Moscow with first timers in mind. (I’m sure we’ll be back to explore the city further)

6 Things to do in Moscow for first timers

1)red square.

Red Square is Moscow’s main landmark , and the place where – I guess – 99% of people begin their exploration of the city. Imagine my joy when we were about to cross the gates into the huge square that I had so often pictured in my mind.

I could glimpse the multicoloured domes of St Basil’s on the far side , but it wasn’t the sprawling expanse I knew – something was blocking my sight. Two huge grandstands for a forthcoming festival of military bands had been erected right in the middle of Red Square, taking up most of available space.

The rest of the square was packed with tourists, it was a very hot day, and I’m sure you can imagine my disappointment.

So, just a little piece of advice for you. If you want to see Red Square in all its sprawling magnificence , make sure there’s no event going on in the square – apparently, events happen very often. We got a couple of messages on social media from people that also found Red Square all blocked up because of concerts or other festivals.

Facing St Basil’s (or the grandstands, in our case), the right hand side of the square borders the Kremlin walls, and near there you’ll find Lenin’s Mausoleum . After having seen the embalmed corpse of Mao in Beijing and Uncle Ho in Hanoi, we were looking forward to visiting Vladimir Ilich – but sadly, we missed the opening times.

On the left hand side of the square there’s  GUM , the same department store that my dad had visited 30 years previously, finding it dusty and empty. During our visit, the afternoon light shone through the glass domed ceilings, over white marble floors and whitewashed walls.

Diners clinked glasses in cafés and the store windows were packed with luxury clothes and accessories. And of course, on the far side of the square, St Basil’s was as dazzling as ever, the five domes five different jewels over the sapphire sky.

A little curiosity for you – the ‘Red’ in Red Square has nothing to do with Communism. The word Krasnaya used to mean ‘beautiful’ in Old Russian, and got the meaning ‘red’ only in more recent times. So, Red Square is also Beautiful Square.

Red Square was a bit of a disappointment, but the Kremlin exceeded all our expectations. The word Kremlin means ‘citadel’ – myself and many others were convinced that the Kremlin would be a simple city palace, but it’s in fact a walled city within a city , with palaces, churches, gardens and two helipads so Mr Putin can get to work without needing to brave the horrid Moscow traffic.

The Kremlin feels like a place that belongs to a parallel world. Everything looks tidy and perfect. Guards in huge hats and manicured uniforms patrol the streets, whistling if you dare cross away from the zebra crossing – yet, strangely, it’s absolutely fine to climb over the Tsar Bell, the largest bell ever cast at a weight of 480 tons.

The Tsar Bell never tolled, and the Tsar Cannon standing right next to it, the largest cannon ever made, never fired a single shot. Go figure.

The most beautiful location in the Kremlin is stunning Cathedral Square , surrounded by several churches with glistening golden domes. We only had time to visit two – Cathedral of the Assumption , where the Tsars were crowned, and Cathedral of the Archangel , final place of rest of several tsars and their families.

3) Moscow Metro

The Kremlin has been the home of Russia’s rulers for centuries. During Communist times, the power was in the hands of the people (or at least, that’s what they were told). In the late 1920s, Stalin ordered the construction of a monumental underground system – a ‘Palace for the People’ , that would fulfil the need for propaganda and intra-city transportation at the same time, as Moscow grew non stop.

Nowadays, the Moscow metro is developed over 12 lines – one circular and 11 radial . An apocryphal tale states that when Stalin was shown the Metro plan, no circular line was contemplated. Stalin placed his teacup on the paper, leaving a round brown mark – naturally, the leader was praised for his brilliance, and that’s how the circular line was born. All lines are colour coded, and the circular line is brown.

The Moscow Metro is not only stunning to look at – it also works amazingly well, and it’s super cheap. It runs from 5 to 2 am, every 20 seconds in peak hour, and a single ride only costs 50 roubles and has no time limit. That means you can spend the whole day touring this stunning system of underground palaces, spending less than a euro.

Each station is decorated differently – no station signs are visible from inside the trains, so Muscovites can tell where to get off by looking at the station’s decoration. Some of the most stunning include Mayakovskaya on the Green Line, Ploshchad Revolyutsii on the Blue Line and  Komsomolskaya, Novoslobodskaya and Kiyevskaya along the Circular (Koltsevaya) line.

I had read about the Arbat so many times in books , that I couldn’t wait to visit it for myself. It is one of the oldest surviving streets of Moscow , connecting the city centre with the boulevard ring. It was once one of the main thoroughfares into town from the West, before becoming home to the nobility first, then to artists and Soviet officials.

These days, the Arbat is not Moscow’s ‘Boulevard St Germain’ anymore – most of the mansions lining it were destroyed to stop Napoleon’s advance in 1812. There are actually two Arbats in Moscow now – the Old Arbat is pedestrian , so it’s still a wonderful place for a walk and some people-watching. There are several souvenir shops but being the heart of the tourist city centre, I’d give shopping around here a miss.

Towards the end of the street there’s an Alice in Wonderland themed cafe (a slice of Tokyo in the center of Moscow?) which could be an interesting spot for a coffee. Or you could check out New Arbat , just parallel, the home of administration and bureaucracy during Soviet times.

5) Cathedral of Christ the Saviour

Even if you’re not one for churches, you’ll agree with me that the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour is a spellbinding sight , with its golden domes and white marble frame set against the sky, and the Moskva river flowing right on its side.

To make matters even better, the Cathedral has a really interesting history. It was erected in the 19th century, after the victory against the Napoleonic Army. A convent was evacuated to make room for the church, and one of the sisters – enraged after having been evicted – claimed that no building erected on that site will ever stand for more than 50 years.

The Cathedral was eventually consecrated in 1883 – and in 1931, 48 years later, it was demolished by Stalin to make room for the ‘Palace of the Soviets’, a monumental building that was going to be topped by a huge statue of Lenin. WW2 halted construction, and after Stalin’s death the construction site stood unfinished for decades – the gaping hole for the foundations was turned into the world’s largest open-air swimming pool.

The ‘current’ Cathedral of Christ the Saviour was built between 1995 and 2000. 50 kilos of gold were used for the domes. Will it last for more than 50 years? Only time will tell.

6) Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics

If like me you’re a fan of Communist architecture and iconography , you’ll be spoilt in Moscow. In the past, we visited Communist sights in Warsaw , Vilnius and Bratislava – but really, they’re nothing compared to Moscow.

From kommunalka apartment blocks to Stalin’s Seven Sisters (huge 1930s skyscrapers housing hotels, apartments, offices and universities), from the Metro to statues and plaques everywhere, Moscow has plenty of relics from the Communist period – after all, it was the capital of the Communist world.

I could spend weeks touring all sights of Communist Moscow – to be honest, we are already planning a trip back for this very reason. If you only had time to visit one Communist sight, make sure it’s the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics . The entrance to the museum is in the base of the Monument to the Conquerors of Space , which is by far THE MOST AMAZING monument we’ve ever seen. I mean, check it out.

The museum itself makes for a very interesting visit for everyone interested in the space race. It houses the first satellite ever to be launched, the embalmed bodies of two space dogs, a full-scale reproduction of space station Mir, space suits and lots more interesting exhibits. We visited on a guided tour with Viking Cruises, which was a great idea as it was really hard to understand the function of some objects otherwise.

The Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics celebrates a time when people dared to look at the stars and dream that one day, we might actually uncover this great mystery. Sure, political implications (on either side of the wall) were behind it all, not some romantic dream – but 55 years from Gagarin’s first flight, space news are often relegated to the bottom of newspaper pages.

Perhaps we have way too many problems on this planet to worry about exploring others. Exploring the Museum, I wished that one day we’ll be able to set out and uncover the biggest mystery of all once again.

Moscow with Viking Cruises

We visited several of the sights mentioned in this list on tours run by Viking River Cruises as part of our Waterways of the Tsars cruise. The Kremlin tour, Moscow city tour (by public transport or bus – naturally we opted for the latter) and a traditional music concert were included in the tour price, but we also took additional tours to the Museum of Cosmonautics and around Moscow by night , both of which we enjoyed a lot.

Our accommodation was on the Viking Truvor , moored in Moscow’s North River terminal near   Rechnoy Vozkal station on the green line, making it possible to reach the centre in half an hour to explore the city independently. All meals are served on the boat, and transport to/from the boat is always provided during tours. Trust me, on a Viking cruise you won’t go hungry!

A great benefit of exploring Moscow with Viking were the excellent local guides , who shared their knowledge with us and gave us ideas on how to make the most of our free time in such a big, sprawling city. We spent three days in Moscow, but we are sure we will be back!

We would like to thank Viking Cruises for having welcomed us aboard the Waterways of the Tsars cruise.

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