ON LOCATION with Karine
Karine Hagen, Executive Vice President of Viking, shares her latest adventures and insights from her travels around the world
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ast summer, a few colleagues and I, joined by our Chairman, spent a spellbinding weekend in Svalbard. This spectacular archipelago under Norwegian sovereignty also boasts the closest settlement in the world to the North Pole. It was a magical and humbling experience amid majestic flora and fauna, and for the first time in my life I felt I was truly a guest of nature. With the launch of Viking Expeditions, we are now able to offer our guests phenomenal polar experiences in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. For more details visit vikingcruises.co.uk/expeditions
STOP, LOOK & LISTEN Amid the absence of manufactured noise, we can discover the magical music of nature: the cacophony of crackling ice; the flapping wings of a passing bird; the gentle bark of a seal pup. These are a few of the sounds of nature that the extremities of the world offer us. In taking the time to stop, listen and look, you gain a completely new appreciation of our world. Perhaps a discipline we can apply not only on travel expeditions, but also in our daily lives. 52
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