Enrichment & Special Interest Cruises
Silversea's Enrichment Voyages entice the palate, intrigue the mind and set the imagination soaring. Explore great wines and guided excursions to renowned vineyards with Silversea's Wine Series. Explore the artistry of their Culinary Series with Relais & Châteaux. Perfect your game both onboard and ashore with the Silver Links® Golf Program. Embark on a cultural journey of discovery with a complimentary Silversea Experience®. Or choose from one of their many other adventures.
Wine Series
On special Wine Series voyages, enjoy enlightening guest lectures, tastings of vintage blends and optional guided excursions to renowned wineries and cellars. On every cruise, experience the innovative Wine Restaurant by Relais & Châteaux - Saletta aboard Silver Cloud and Silver Wind and Le Champagne aboard Silver Shadow and Silver Whisper.
Enhancing the exceptional wine offerings that are part of every Silversea itinerary, a Wine Series voyage creates an unforgettable and enriching experience at sea.
Relais & Chateaux Culinary Series
Engage your palate with sumptuous feasts by the world's leading chefs or toast the bouquet of a fine wine, and delight in the pleasures of Silversea's specialised voyages as they enhance the extensive array of outstanding culinary and wine events offered fleetwide on every cruise.
Savour their series of Culinary Arts voyages as you join the world's leading chefs embodying the finest gastronomic traditions for displays of culinary finesse, lectures and a grand gourmet dinner. Attend an inspiring Relais & Châteaux cooking demonstration presented by distinguished onboard chefs, learn select secrets of La Terrazza's success from their signature chef and be entertained by the galley sous chefs as they showcase their skills in a dynamic cooking competition. With the Summer 2006 introduction of the Viking Cooking School Aboard Silversea, you can don your own apron and join each ship's own Executive Chef for hands-on instruction in creating culinary delights. Designed exclusively for Silversea, each Viking Cooking Theatre provides a state-of-the-art platform to best present the expert tips and techniques of the world's great gourmands.
Silversea Experience
You have arrived at a Silversea Experience, a special cultural journey offered with Silversea's compliments.
Imagine travelling at dusk through the Namib Desert, sand dunes as far as the eye can see. You hear the distinctive beat of African drums. As the music grows louder, over the next crest you come upon a vast white tent, glowing from the light of bonfires. Tables dressed in white cloths are laden with food. A waiter greets you with a refreshing drink. You have arrived at a Silversea Experience,® a special cultural journey offered on selected itineraries with the compliments of Silversea. Whether it is an evening of local food and entertainment, a tour featuring spectacular scenery or dinner in an unusual setting, every one of the Silversea Experiences is unique, dramatic and enlightening.
Art
Silversea offers private tours of the world's best museums - Italy's Uffizi Gallery, the Alexandria National Museum in Egypt, Russia's Hermitage and the open-air museums of Trogir in Croatia and Easter Island. Whilst a night at the ballet tops the must-do list of travellers aboard Silversea's summer voyages to Russia. From the rose-red city of Petra to Sydney's iconic Opera House. From the temples of Bagan to India's Taj Mahal. The wonders of the world's most famous architectural works come to life with fascinating detail, enhanced by the knowledgeable insight of a private Silversea guide.
Silversea's devotion to encircling guests in a world rich with artistic experiences follows through to a carefully crafted onboard entertainment series that showcases international celebrities as well as regional artists and expert guest lecturers - enriching the voyage destination through the mediums of music, dance, painting, sculpture and more.
Cultural
What makes a culture unique? What traditions do a nation's people celebrate and how do their beliefs differ from our own?
Silversea's international itineraries attract guests and staff from across the globe, resulting in a uniquely cosmopolitan onboard atmosphere. A setting especially welcoming for the host of entertaining cultural specialists whose stories will enthral and delight as they reveal answers to questions of instinctive curiosity.
Gourmet
The innovative Viking Cooking School Aboard Silversea entertains and educates with a broad curriculum of tantalising culinary events including inspiring demonstrations and dynamic cooking competitions. Then head ashore to cook alongside world-renowned chefs at prestigious Relais & Châteaux - Relais Gourmand boutique restaurants. Select the freshest ingredients needed to create Valencian paella, discover nouvelle twists on traditional Chinese dishes, or learn the time-honoured secrets of Vietnamese clay pot cooking. Specialised outings include such unforgettable experiences as an exotic Omani feast served traditionally under Arabic tents.
Silversea's Culinary Arts Voyages highlight the passion and talents of renowned international guest chefs, whilst guests aboard Wine Series Voyages will savour every moment of wine tastings surrounded by lush vineyards followed by private tours of world-class wine cellars from Bordeaux, France to Brisbane, Australia and Montevideo, Uruguay.
History
Excursions to Egypt's pyramids. Spain's Alhambra. Pompeii. The lost cities of Machu Picchu and Chichén Itzá. The ancient ruins of Ephesus, Cyrene, Palmyra and Leptis Magna.
Silversea's destination specialists are experts at sparking your curiosity with legends and lore, fact and fiction, and mysteries still unsolved by time and technology. Their stories will place you in the shoes of the early explorers, then lead you ashore to discover for yourself the lasting treasures of our world's great civilisations. Revealing lesser-known details surrounding important sites from Vatican City to the Berlin Wall, our guest speakers' tales are enhanced by their own intriguing personal experiences.
Nature Lovers
Aboard Silversea's smaller ships, discover amazing landscapes and remarkable species of wildlife in remote corners of the world. Stark and silent Antarctic icebergs. Misty green Norwegian fjords. Wild Amazonian rainforests. Australia's vast Outback. Impossibly blue Chilean glaciers. Delight in personal encounters with elephants in Colombo, Madagascar lemurs, and penguins in Argentina. Unique and up-close experiences that are simply one-of-a-kind. Simply Silversea.
Intimately sized ships also mean intimate settings for small groups to examine the work of ecologists, environmentalists, and special lifestyle naturalists.
World Observer
Ever changing. Always fascinating. Our world is shaped by complex and often contrasting cultures, religions and political affairs. Stay informed with complimentary satellite world news delivered daily to your suite, and consider destination focused current events and their varied historical influences through the watchful eyes of noted international authorities.
