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- Many travel companies offer cruise excursions in the Caribbean.caribbean cruise waterjet image by Pierrette Guertin from Fotolia.com
An exciting addition to going on a cruise is the on-shore excursion. Many cruise companies offer stimulating off-ship activities in ports in the Caribbean. Depending on the destination, excursions could include a leisurely horseback ride on a white-sand beach or mountain biking through a tropical rain forest. Water worshipers could find themselves swimming with stingrays and dolphins or snorkeling along an exotic animal-inhabited coral reef. - Royal Caribbean International, headquartered in Miami, has a number of on-shore cruise excursions in the Caribbean, such as city sightseeing and adventure excursions, wilderness and wildlife tours and water and beach-related activities. The city and sightseeing tour excursions include visits to museums, archaeological sites, local markets and shops, cultural landmarks and natural settings. The adventure wilderness and wildlife excursions feature riding on roller coasters, kayaking through islands and diverse wildlife areas. For the water enthusiast, Royal Caribbean has excursions that are water and beach-related, such as shoreline snorkeling, scuba diving, bouncing on a water trampoline, swimming, stingray encounters, lounging and relaxing on your very own private guest beaches.
Royal Caribbean International
1050 Caribbean Way
Miami, FL 33132
305-539-6000
royalcaribbean.com - Carnival Cruise Lines, also located in Miami, offers cruise excursions in several ports in the Caribbean. In the port of Aruba, passengers can snorkel and sightsee along shallow reefs and dive down to explore the renowned Antilla freighter wreck. Guests also visit more wrecks and marine life in a U.S. Coast Guard submarine. In the port of Cozumel, passengers can ride a zip line between six 25-foot towers at Adventure Park or ATV through the Cozumel jungle. Antigua excursions include horseback riding along the Caribbean Sea, flying through the trees on a 40-minute canopy tour through the rain forest and golfing at the prestigious Cedar Valley Golf Club. At the port of Belize, passengers can disembark and climb on-board a 450-horsepower air boat and glide through mangrove forests and manatee lagoons. Or passengers can bike ride on a guided tour of the jungle.
Carnival Cruise Lines
3655 N.W. 87th Avenue
Miami, FL 33178
800-438-6744
carnival.com - Celebrity Cruises has nine ships that offer several cruises to the Caribbean that depart from the ports of Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Baltimore, Cape Liberty and San Juan. Off-ship excursions include cuisine tours of Antigua, helicopter tours over Grand Cayman, sailing along the shores of the Caribbean Sea on a catamaran, visiting and touring the Barbados wildlife reserve. Other options include a cave expedition, deep-sea fishing off the port of Castries, 4-by-4 safaris through Samana, skeet shooting and golfing the Roatan greens, scuba diving the Meso-American Barrier Reef, visiting San Juan Bacardi rum distillery, and snorkeling over very old shipwrecks in Cozumel, Mexico.
Celebrity Cruises Inc.
1050 Caribbean Way.
Miami, FL 33132
800-647-2251
celebritycruises.com
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