The Ultimate Expedition | Circumnavigating Svalbard (MS Fram)

Start your day with a hearty breakfast before setting out to explore Longyearbyen, the world's northernmost town. Wander down the main street, admire the polar bear-inspired art, and visit the North Pole Expedition Museum. After lunch, choose from a range of optional activities like electric biking, dog-sledding, or hiking before boarding your ship for the next leg of your Arctic journey.

Over the next three days, you'll traverse the rugged tundra of Northwest Spitsbergen National Park. Surrounded by steep mountains, stark glaciers, and beautiful offshore islands, keep an eye out for Arctic animals like whales, seals, walruses, and reindeer. If you're lucky, you might even spot a polar bear hunting on the ice. Be ready for adventure as we seize every opportunity to kayak, hike, or participate in a beach cleanup.

Continue your exploration of the pristine Arctic wilderness. Experience the natural beauty of the park, with its steep mountains, stark glaciers, and beautiful offshore islands. Keep an eye out for Arctic animals, and seize every opportunity for adventure, whether it's launching our kayaks, going ashore for a hike, or participating in a beach cleanup.

Spend your final day in the Arctic wilderness, exploring the natural beauty and rugged tundra of Northwest Spitsbergen National Park. Keep a lookout for Arctic animals, including whales, seals, walruses, and reindeer. If you're lucky, you might even see a polar bear hunting on the ice. Be ready for adventure as we seize every opportunity to kayak, hike, or participate in a beach cleanup.

Get ready for a truly adventurous day. If the sea ice permits, we'll venture across the 80th parallel north and explore the pristine wilderness of northeast Svalbard. We might head to the immense Bråsvellbreen glacier or Kvitøya to look for polar bears. Channel your inner explorer on exhilarating landings, hikes, and kayak trips, and keep an eye out for wildlife like polar bears, walruses, guillemots, and gulls.

Continue your Arctic adventure, exploring the pristine wilderness of northeast Svalbard. Depending on the conditions, we may explore Freemansundet and Kapp Lee, or take our small expedition boats to Edgeøya or Barentsøya. Keep an eye out for wildlife like polar bears, walruses, guillemots, and gulls as you channel your inner explorer on exhilarating landings, hikes, and kayak trips.

Your Arctic adventure continues as you explore the pristine wilderness of northeast Svalbard. Depending on the conditions, we may take our small expedition boats to Edgeøya or Barentsøya. Keep an eye out for wildlife like polar bears, walruses, guillemots, and gulls as you channel your inner explorer on exhilarating landings, hikes, and kayak trips.

Your expedition cruise continues south toward Hornsund, one of Svalbard's most beautiful fjords. Spot seals and whales, admire Mount Hornsundtind, and watch glaciers calving into the sea. Then head to snow-capped Bellsund, home to large colonies of auks, guillemots, and northern fulmars, while Arctic foxes and Svalbard reindeer can be found below. Learn about the early mining settlements and the first female trapper, Wanny Woldstad.

Continue your journey south toward Hornsund, one of Svalbard's most beautiful fjords. Spot seals and whales, admire Mount Hornsundtind, and watch glaciers calving into the sea. Then head to snow-capped Bellsund, home to large colonies of auks, guillemots, and northern fulmars, while Arctic foxes and Svalbard reindeer can be found below. Learn about the early mining settlements and the first female trapper, Wanny Woldstad.

Continue your Svalbard circumnavigation into Isfjord's lush fjord system, where you'll see immense, glacier-carved valleys rich in wildlife, vegetation, and human history. Visit Alkehornet, home to guillemots, kittiwakes, Svalbard reindeer, and Arctic foxes. Pass the former Isfjord Radio satellite communication station, now one of the world's most beautifully situated hotels. Today's activities will be determined by the ever-changing weather conditions in Isfjord.

Your Arctic adventure comes to an end back in Longyearbyen. Before your flight back to Oslo, you'll have time to explore more of Longyearbyen and do a bit of shopping. A transfer will take you to the airport for your flight home. You'll return with more knowledge about wildlife, history, polar ice, and climate change in the Arctic, and you'll have memories of an incredible experience.