The World, Caught in the Act

The Moment Has a Map

For a few minutes above the Strait of Gibraltar, the day will forget it is day.

The moon will move across the sun. Light will thin over the water, the horizon will sharpen, and those gathered on the open deck of National Geographic Orion will meet the eclipse where the Atlantic narrows toward the Mediterranean.

Across all seven continents, the 2027–2028 voyages from National Geographic-Lindblad Expeditions follow a world in motion: opening ice, shifting glaciers, living reefs, and light that changes what becomes possible.

You are not simply deciding where to go next. You are choosing what you want to witness the world doing.

When Daylight Disappears

The Azores to Barcelona: A Special Solar Eclipse Voyage begins in the Atlantic’s volcanic islands and crosses toward the Mediterranean for a rare alignment.

In August 2027, National Geographic Orion is timed to enter the path of totality near the Strait of Gibraltar. Conditions permitting, you'll watch the sun disappear between Europe and Africa. Naturalists and a National Geographic onboard can help you understand and capture what unfolds.

Tangier, Spain’s southern coast, and a private visit to the Alhambra place a human history beneath the celestial one. This time, the sky leads.

North, While the Light Holds

In the Arctic, the same place can change completely with the season. Lindblad’s expanded 2027–2028 voyages follow the light, ice, and wildlife north.

Svalbard in Two Seasons

The expanded Arctic season reaches Svalbard in both spring and summer. Spring holds the archipelago in snow and sea ice. By summer, more tundra emerges beneath nearly endless daylight.

Both seasons leave room for the unexpected. A wildlife sighting or change in the ice may redirect the day as captains and expedition leaders read conditions in real time.

Here, flexibility is not an interruption. It is the expedition.

Baffin Island's Wild Frontier 

The new Baffin Island: Exploring Canada’s Wild Arctic Frontier voyage turns toward steep fjords, glacial valleys, and waters inhabited by whales, seals, and walruses.

Zodiacs and kayaks bring you closer, while naturalists and local voices place the landscape within its ecological and cultural history. The farther you enter, the less the Arctic feels empty.

Greenland to Newfoundland

The returning Fabled Lands of the North: Greenland to Newfoundland begins along Greenland’s iceberg-filled west coast, then follows Baffin Island and Labrador toward Newfoundland.

You may Zodiac cruise beside a glacier, hike across tundra, or watch for whales and migrating birds from the Bridge. An onboard archaeologist adds another layer, tracing the Inuit communities, fishing settlements, and human histories held along the coast.

The Wild Comes in Blue

After two years away, National Geographic-Lindblad Expeditions returns to Oceania, with Tahiti anchoring three distinct voyages in its 2027–2028 season

Pearls of the Pacific 

Pearls of the Pacific: The Society and Tuamotu Islands explores French Polynesia aboard National Geographic Resolution, entering Tahiti by snorkel, kayak, paddleboard, and Zodiac rather than from one beautiful address.

Snorkel with black-tipped reef sharks off Taha’a, then step ashore at Ra’iatea’s UNESCO-listed Marae Taputapuātea. Farther on, Makatea rises in limestone cliffs, Rangiroa surrounds one of the world’s largest lagoons, and Fakarava protects reefs alive with color.

Fiji and Tahiti

Fiji and Tahiti: Vibrant Reefs and Cultural History widens the route through the Cook Islands, Niue, Tonga, and Fiji.

Lagoons give way to rainforests, lava-carved caves, waterfalls, and marine reserves. In villages and sacred sites, the expedition team helps connect what you see to the Polynesian navigators and living traditions that have shaped this ocean for centuries.

Easter Island to Tahiti

Easter Island to Tahiti: Tales of the Pacific turns east across the Gambier and Pitcairn Islands toward Rapa Nui.

Days at sea restore the scale that maps tend to flatten. Remote communities, archaeological sites, and the moai of Easter Island emerge within an ocean story measured in distance, isolation, and extraordinary navigation.

Europe, From the Outside In

Europe may be familiar, but its edges tell another story. New 2027–2028 voyages approach the continent through volcanic islands, fortified harbors, river mouths, and coastlines shaped by exchange.

Spain, Morocco, and the Canary Islands

Aboard National Geographic Orion, Continental Crossroads: Spain, Morocco and the Canary Islands moves between Europe and North Africa.

The route follows cultural and geological fault lines, pairing historic cities with Atlantic islands formed by fire. Historians and naturalists make the connections visible along the way.

Atlantic Horizons

Also aboard National Geographic Orion, Spain, Portugal and Morocco: Atlantic Horizons looks toward the waters that carried ideas, empires, and explorers between continents.

From the deck, whitewashed towns, tiled facades, and ochre medinas appear along the same sweep of the Atlantic, each facing the water with a different history. Rather than tracing the region through its capitals, you follow its western edge and the ports that have always looked outward.

Porto to Bergen

Porto, Bordeaux and Bergen: Wonders of Western Europe carries National Geographic Endurance north from wine-growing river country toward Scandinavia.

As the ship turns north, vineyard terraces give way to Atlantic cliffs, then to Norway’s steep green walls and glassy fjords. The changing view reveals how geography has shaped what people grow, build, and carry out to sea.

The Mediterranean Under Sail

Aboard the three-masted Sea Cloud II, Malta, Sicily and Greece Under Sail trades the engine-led rhythm of a conventional cruise for canvas and wind.

Ancient harbors and island histories feel different when the means of arrival belongs to the same maritime story.

Where the Land Is Still Becoming