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Explore 34 River Cruises travel stories from Adventure Life, featuring expert insights, destination highlights, and firsthand experiences from ancient and culturally rich sites. Whether you’re planning your next adventure in 2025 or 2026, these stories offer inspiration for exploring ruins, archaeological wonders, and hidden historical gems across the globe. Learn from the journeys of fellow travelers and discover meaningful ways to connect with the past through thoughtful travel. Let these River Cruises stories guide your path into history.
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View of the Great Nile in Aswan

How to Choose the Best Nile River Cruise

This guide helps you choose the ideal Nile cruise by explaining optimal travel times, different boat types (small ship, dahabiya, felucca), cruise durations (3–7 nights), and key route highlights such as Luxor, Aswan, Karnak, Valley of the Kings, and Philae.
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Magical first view of Sacha Lodge

Best Time of Year to Travel to the Amazon

Find the best months of the year to travel to the Amazon Rainforest & the Amazon River. The Amazon is huge, and different regions have different weather and climate.
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Explore Basel

Best Time to Take a European River Cruise - Rhine, Danube & Main Rivers

The Main River of southern Germany connects the Danube River to the east with the Rhine River to the northwest. As the Rhine?s largest tributary and the primary artery between two of Europe?s longest rivers, cruises that include the Main River are usually a bit longer - between 7 days and three weeks, crossing central Europe.
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Admire beautiful evening lights of Vienna

Best Luxury River Cruises in Europe

Our hand-selected menu of cruises is all-inclusive, with shore excursions, meals, and drinks, and guides all wrapped into what you pay. We have done our best to curate unique cruise experiences for travelers of all interests - from history buffs to active explorers…and everyone else!
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Stroll through charming Strasbourg

All you need to know about Barge Cruising

Barge cruises are one of the most unique ways to explore France, Central Europe, and the United Kingdom. Intimate accommodations, great food, and focused experiences are part of the excitement of a barge cruise.
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Cruise through the canals of Amsterdam

Barge cruise vs. River cruise

What is the difference is between a European barge cruise and a river cruise? The relaxed and intimate atmosphere onboard is similar, and destinations are often largely the same as well, visiting many of the same major ports. The main difference between a barge cruise and a river cruise in Europe is the size of the boat and hence the number of passengers onboard.
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What to expect on a barge cruise

On your European barge cruise, you can expect a leisurely pace, an intimate atmosphere, and great, locally sourced food.
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Sunset over Passau

How to Choose a European River Cruise

European river cruises, once just a small niche in European travel, have grown exponentially in the last decade as one of the newest favorite ways to explore all that the countries of Europe have to offer. Deciding which European river cruise is right for you can be a tricky task, but if you can just answer a few questions for yourself, the …
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Stop in beautiful Basel, Switzerland

Top Things to Do in Basel

Just a stone’s throw from Germany and France, the town of Basel, Switzerland is an exciting stop on any Rhine River cruise. Brimming with centuries of culture and history, it’s no surprise that - in addition to myriad museums that you can explore here - the city itself feels like a living museum. Altstadt (Old Town) The Altstadt old …
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Warm lights glow through the blue hour in Lyon

Top Things to See and Do in Lyon

Where the Rhône and Saône rivers join you’ll find the busy city of Lyon, France, in the southeastern part of the country - so busy, in fact, that it is the sixth most densely populated city in the EU. Home to historical gems and a legacy that dates back thousands of years, renaissance architecture highlights the old town (Vieux …
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Explore some of the most beautiful towns in France

Barge Cruises in France

Riverboats are already much smaller than the giant ocean liners that cruise the Atlantic and Caribbean, but they can still be characterized as floating hotels, complete with several dining areas or bars, multiple lounges and social areas, occasionally a pool, hot tub, or spa, and occupancy for up to 200 or more guests.
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Cruise the Rhone river in charming Lyon

What's New in European River Cruises for 2019

It’s 2019, and a whole new season of European river cruising is just heating up! The Rhine and Danube Rivers defend their place as the most popular river cruising options, taking travelers through all of the major cities of Eastern, Central, and Western Europe as you cruise gently up and down these ancient waterways that have connected the …
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Sunset view of Yonne River in Burgundy

European River Cruises for Families Children, Parents & Grandparents

European river cruises can be an amazing experience for families with members of all ages, and if you’re traveling with minors (under the age of 18), a cruise can be a fantastic way to engage them in history and culture as they see their textbooks come to life in the form of castles, museums, battlegrounds of ancient and modern wars, ruins, and so much more.
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Our ship anchored

The Glorious Spain and Portugal!

This trip was my first cruise and my first time in Europe! I took an 8-day cruise on the Harmony V with my mother in August and had a wonderful time! We sailed on rivers and went through locks and explored beautiful city centers in Spain, ate local dishes such as paella and sangria and encountered beautiful architecture and beautiful gelato in …
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Life & Adventures in the South African Bush

This was a blog to keep loved ones back in the states apprised of my time interning in Hoedspruit, South Africa. I started at the White Lion Protection Trust and ended at the African Dream Horse Safari program.
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Take a camel ride around the pyramids.

Exploring Ancient Egypt

We had an amazing four day cruise down the river on the Nile Adventurer. Our Egyptologist, Zainab, and the boat staff made the experience a delight! Before we boarded, we spent a couple days in Cairo learning about the ancient history and the culture of Egypt. We hope to return soon and experience more of this amazing place!
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MS Fernao de Magalhaes

River Cruising Has Our Attention

While many travelers are familiar with the standard ocean liners and mega-yachts, river cruises offer a different atmosphere and experience that can only be found in certain parts of the world.
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Local moving cattle through the fields

Top River Cruise Destinations

If you're convinced that your next trip MUST be a river cruise, the difficult decision of deciding "where to?" is upon you. Adventure Life offers river cruising in some incredible destinations, and here are highlights of just a few of these options to help in your decision of where to river cruise next.
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Christmas on the Rhine

Today's post is a fun journal entry by Cierra Rantoul during her small ship cruise on the Rhine River in 2007. Thanks Cierra!
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Green Vine Snake in the Amazon

Ecuador Adventure - Manatee Voyage and Sacha Lodge

Delving into the rich wildlife of the Amazon, we explore the Napo and Aguarico Rivers of Ecuador. Then it on to Sacha Lodge to experience the unique atmosphere at this ecolodge on our Ecuador tour.
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Our ship, the Aqua

AMAZON Luxury Cruise in Peru

Impressions of Iquitos, including Belen, and reflections on a week-long boat trip on Amazonian rivers.
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Exploring China

China - Hidden Dragon, Sleeping Workers

This journal is about my experiences in China during the summer of 2008 just before the Olympic Games. We traveled all over the country and had an amazing adventure.
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Dolphins

West Africa Cruise on the Pegasus

The West Africa cruise on the 45 passage Pegasus with just 29 on board was one of the best cruises I have ever completed. The Gambia is a bird lovers paradise and the 3 hour excursion to Bao Bolong Wetland Reserve was one of the best ever. The 5K walk in the Kiang West National Park was amazing. The people and sites of Senegal and The Gambia are …
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Swimming with pink dolphins

Amazon Adventure

Swimming with pink dolphins, climbing trees, and cruising the Rio Negro in Amazonia.
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