Typical day on board the M/S Quest

Assuming that you decide to stick to a normal sleeping routine and not enjoy the polar day around the clock, a typical day on board the M/S Quest unravels as follows.

After a wakeup call around 7 – 7:30am and breakfast, the participants are briefed on the programme of the day and prepare for the morning excursion. Wearing life jackets, they embark on zodiacs in small groups for activities including walks on the tundra for bird observation, old whaler hut visits, landscape photography and encounters with reindeers and arctic foxes. Or the observation and photography from the zodiacs of seals, various types of icebergs, glaciers and the famous polar bears. These activities warry as function of the weather, the fauna, the environment and the location.

The groups return to the ship for lunch and later in the afternoon, as the ship will have continued its course, another zodiac excursion is proposed. As the number of passengers on board M/S Quest is limited all passengers are offered to take part in all the excursions and the time to embark and disembark the zodiacs is short.

Before dinner the guides propose a review of the most remarkable features of the day and give some lectures about various aspects of the arctic geography, wildlife and flora.

The day finishes at a time that varies as passengers approach the polar day in their own ways, but always with the hope of being woken up during the night because of the close proximity of bears or whales.