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| 17th17 | SepSep | 202222 | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, embark on the MS Roald Amundsen | | 18:00 |
Surrounded by natural treasures and glorious seascapes, Halifax is an attractive and vibrant hub with noteworthy historic and modern architecture, great dining and shopping, and a lively nightlife and festival scene. The old city manages to feel both hip and historic. Previous generations had the foresight to preserve the cultural and architectural integrity of the city, yet students from five local universities keep it lively and current. It's a perfect starting point to any tour of the Atlantic provinces, but even if you don't venture beyond its boundaries, you will get a real taste of the region.It was Halifax’s natural harbor—the second largest in the world after Sydney, Australia’s—that first drew the British here in 1749, and today most major sites are conveniently located either along it or on the Citadel-crowned hill overlooking it. That’s good news for visitors because this city actually covers quite a bit of ground.Since amalgamating with Dartmouth (directly across the harbor) and several suburbs in 1996, Halifax has been absorbed into the Halifax Regional Municipality, and the HRM, as it is known, has around 415,000 residents. That may not sound like a lot by U.S. standards, but it makes Nova Scotia’s capital the most significant Canadian urban center east of Montréal.There's easy access to the water, and despite being the focal point of a busy commercial port, Halifax Harbour doubles as a playground, with one of the world's longest downtown boardwalks. It's a place where container ships, commuter ferries, cruise ships, and tour boats compete for space, and where workaday tugs and fishing vessels tie up beside glitzy yachts. Like Halifax as a whole, the harbor represents a blend of the traditional and the contemporary. |
| 18th18 | SepSep | 202222 | Sable Island, Nova Scotia, Canada | 08:00 | 18:00 |
| 19th19 | SepSep | 202222 | Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada | 09:00 | 16:00 |
| 20th20 | SepSep | 202222 | Eastport, Maine, United States | 10:00 | 20:00 |
| 21st21 | SepSep | 202222 | Rockland, Maine, United States | 07:00 | 15:00 |
| 21st21 | SepSep | 202222 | Castine, Maine, United States | 18:00 | 23:59 |
| 22nd22 | SepSep | 202222 | Bar Harbor, Maine, United States | 08:00 | 18:00 |
A resort town since the 19th century, Bar Harbor is the artistic, culinary, and social center of Mount Desert Island. It also serves visitors to Acadia National Park with inns, motels, and restaurants. Around the turn of the last century the island was known as the summer haven of the very rich because of its cool breezes. The wealthy built lavish mansions throughout the island, many of which were destroyed in a huge fire that devastated the island in 1947, but many of those that survived have been converted into businesses. Shops are clustered along Main, Mount Desert, and Cottage streets. Take a stroll down West Street, a National Historic District, where you can see some fine old houses.The island and the surrounding Gulf of Maine are home to a great variety of wildlife: whales, seals, eagles, falcons, ospreys, and puffins (though not right offshore here), and forest dwellers such as deer, foxes, coyotes, and beavers. |
| 23rd23 | SepSep | 202222 | Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States | 08:00 | 20:00 |
| 24th24 | SepSep | 202222 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States, disembark the MS Roald Amundsen | 07:00 | |
There’s history and culture around every bend in Boston—skyscrapers nestle next to historic hotels while modern marketplaces line the antique cobblestone streets. But to Bostonians, living in a city that blends yesterday and today is just another day in beloved Beantown. |