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9 Best River Cruises In The World
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Jan 29, 2025
What are the best river cruises in the world? Which rivers should you consider cruising on, and why? Discover the very best rivers to cruise along across Europe, Asia, Africa and the United States. In this video I give you my recommendation on the top nine rivers to explore as they are the most beautiful, interesting or appealing of all the many rivers you can choose to cruise on. I would love you to give the video a "thumbs up" and if you subscribed to the channel. Every week Gary Bembridge's Tips For Travellers Channel posts a video to help you make the most of your precious travel time and money on both land and at sea. First-hand travel inspiration, advice and tips based on the over 20 years I have been travelling every month. Follow me on these social media platforms: - YouTube: http://bit.ly/TFT_YouTube2 - Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/tipsfortravellers - Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tipsfortravellers - Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/garybembridge
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in this video you're going to discover
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the nine best places to go on a river
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cruise
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I'm Gary beverage of tips for travelers
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river cruising is a great way to travel
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and you travel in small ships largely
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everything's included including drinks
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food and excursions and it's a fabulous
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relaxed way of seeing parts of the world
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so I'm going to talk about the nine best
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places to go first of all the Rhine this
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is the most popular of cruising
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destination in the world the ride is a
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900 mile long River starts in
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Switzerland and eventually empties into
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the North Sea it passes through six
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countries Austria France Germany
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Liechtenstein the Netherlands and
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Switzerland now the reason the Rhine is
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so popular is it is just steeped in
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beautiful scenery and phenomenal history
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so as you pass along the Rhine you pass
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fairytale castles beautiful vineyards a
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big part of the Rhine which you pass
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through on a river cruise is a UNESCO
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World Heritage Site and it's called the
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upper middle rhine valley it's a
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beautiful part of the world and it's
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basically between Rue de Shyam and
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Coblentz and you pass magnificent
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castles beautiful scenery so the Rhine
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is a great place to go on a river cruise
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and there's a huge amount of choice now
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the second incredible River to go
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cruising on is the Danube the Danube is
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a very long with it's over 1,800 miles
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long it's the second longest river in
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Europe after the Volga and it passes
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through an incredible eight country so
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it starts in Germany ends in the Black
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Sea so it passes through Germany Austria
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Slovakia Hungary Croatia Serbia Bulgaria
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Romania Moldavia and finally the Ukraine
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now the most popular stretch is between
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Germany and Hungary so starting around
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about Passau and ending in Budapest in
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Hungary now on this cruise you see
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phenomenal scenery you pass through
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loads of locks and you visit fantastic
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places including malko there's an
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incredible cathedral Lintz Vienna
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Salzburg
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so really iconic and famous places so
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again many many of the river cruising
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companies will offer cruises along the
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Danube the next great river to crew
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is the rhone their own is one of
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france's most magnificent and mightiest
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of rivers the road is perfect for people
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who love food and drink because it
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passes through really the gastronomic
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and winemaking heart of France so on our
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own cruise you're going to cruise
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through places like burgundy and
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Provence you're gonna visit places like
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the city of Leon which is the gourmet
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capital of France
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some of the historic places of visits
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are the fortified city of Avignon the
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reason though that many people go on a
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cruise on their own is because of the
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food and the wines the next great River
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to cruise is the Douro
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which will take you through Portugal and
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Spain the dwara Valley is actually a
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UNESCO World Heritage Site now this is
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not as well-known as many of the other
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rivers most of the cruises will start in
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porto and will wide its way along the
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dura normally ending back in porto now i
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should post on eduardo you're gonna go
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past lot very picturesque vineyards and
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they pass many evil villages
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so the dwara is really popular with
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people who either done the Ryan done the
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Danube what is the other parts of Europe
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now my fifth suggestion on one of the
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best river cruises in the world is the
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dois in France now the reason that this
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is fantastic is it's one of the quietest
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rivers for river cruising it's a very
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shallow river so it's quite difficult to
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navigate
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so cross to Europe actually created a
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very specific ship which has paddle
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wheels on either side to be able to go
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down the reverse so what you'll find on
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the law is cross Europe is the only main
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river cruising company there and it's
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absolutely magnificent up because you go
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to visit incredible shadows you see
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beautiful scenery very historic towns
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much less commercial than many of the
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other rivers which are very busy my next
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suggestion is the Seine in France the
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cruisers travel between Paris and
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Honfleur which is down on the coast near
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than normally landing beaches so the
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center is a really great river cruise if
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you want to see some of Paris because
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often the cruisers will include
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sometimes to see Paris at night you'll
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get a chance to sit visit Versailles you
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will go through the beautiful French
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scenery downtown floor and particular
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you're interested in history and the
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Normandy beaches there's some great
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excursions there are many options of
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places to cruise on rivers in Europe but
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I want to take a look at some of the
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other rivers of the world which I think
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are amongst
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the best for the cruisers that you can
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do the first of those and one of the
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most popular and growing ones is the
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Mekong River
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now the Mekong River will take you to
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Vietnam and Cambodia
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many of the big European river cruise
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operators operate in the Mekong the
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three big city highlights include sim
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Reaper Phnom Penh and Ho Chi Minh City
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although many people go on the Mekong
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River to see the Angkor temples and
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particularly the beautiful temple of
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Angkor Wat one of the excursions is
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normally going to this big sprawling
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temple at sunrise and you get to see the
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sunrise above the temple and then go and
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explore it on these cruises there's lots
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of cultural immersion so a chance to
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really understand the culture of Vietnam
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and Cambodia this visit to markets and
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of course some of these incredibly
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beautiful temples the river cruise boats
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tend to be slightly smaller than ones in
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Europe a little bit more nimble because
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the nature of the river our next
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suggestion is the Nile this is one of
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the oldest forms of river cruising going
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right back to the days of the Pharaoh
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the nan is an incredibly long river it's
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over 4,000 160 miles long now the river
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cruises on the Nile tend to focus on a
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120 mile stretch between Luxor and Aswan
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Dam and this is really the most
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important part of historic Egypt so in
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Luxor you get to see the value of the
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Kings and other significant fires and
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then you basically can cruise down to
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the Aswan Dam with awesome excursions
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where you can go and see some of the
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very significant sites there the Nile is
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a magnificent place to cruise it's very
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historic any of these beautiful small
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rural cruising boats and the most
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important time to go because it gets
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incredibly unbearably hot in Egypt is
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around about Christmas time so sort of
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November through it about January
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February place to go cruising is along
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the Mississippi River in the United
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States of America the Mississippi River
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is a magnificent historic River and in
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gone river cruises and really explore
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the old history of the south the Civil
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War slavery and also just taken the
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beautiful scenery of the old plantations
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for those of you who fans
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you can also or many of the cruises go
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to Memphis and of course visit Graceland
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Elvis Presley's home there are two big
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companies that are crew
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Mississippi which is the Americans queen
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steamboat company and the American
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cruise lines and but they operate those
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big old traditional paddle steamers with
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the big wheels at the back of course
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there are many more rivers of the world
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that you can go cruising and all the
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time companies are finding ways to go on
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more and more rivers it's a beautiful
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way to go and see a part of the water
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it's quite intimate there's boats by
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their very nature are small it's quite a
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leisurely approach and most of the river
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cruises are pretty all inclusive so
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you'll find your accommodation your food
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your excursions are normally included so
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it's a great way of immersing yourself
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and seeing parts of the world those are
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in my view the nine best river cruises
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