Click logo to return to www.greatriver.com ...Steamboats, houseboats and fantastic sunsets offer only a peek at life along the Mississippi River valley! Small boat cruising is king along the river. Small boats include paddlewheelers, houseboats, and day cruising. There are few overnight cruises available, but several of the small cruising boats offer overnights in hotels along the river. Check out the JBS, the Twilight, and Celebration Cruise Lines. 
INDEX to our TRAVEL INSIGHT FEATURES for the MISSISSIPPI RIVER and other great world waterways.
Waterway Cruise Reports by Pat and Richard Middleton

 RIVER CRUISES WORLDWIDE

   Luxury River Cruising with AMA WATERWAYS through
"Europe's Heartland"   

With our Mississippi River cruising steamboats inexcusably shut down for the moment, the European waterways have been teasing me to come explore a few more of the world's most renown rivers.  In this Waterway Cruise Report we explore the Mosel, Rhine, and Main Rivers!

 

 

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Join our cruise of the Yangtze River in China! This is an experimental, low-res SLIDE show with text commentary. Click HERE to begin.

 

 

  Cairo, Click photo to see review by Alan Fox of his trip to Cairo, Egypt and Cruising the Nile Egypt, and Cruising the Nile River!
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We'd been traveling for nearly 24 hours since leaving Savute Elephant Camp in Botswana, but our excitement at finally reaching the Land of the Pharaohs was impossible to contain. Ahead of us that great, ancient city was coming to life as it had every day for more than a thousand years.

 

 

 

     Cruising with the St. Lawrence Cruise Line from Kingston to Montreal and Quebec City.      
          Small boat river cruising at it's most comfortable, and scenic best!

 

 

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Barging on the Canal du Midi
Southern France and the Mississippi River Connection 
New! We've posted our photo album!

 

 

 

ALASKA   FRANCE   GERMANY   CANADA   SOUTH AMERICA and GALAPAGOS ISL.,
UNITED STATES MAINLAND
CHINA   MEXICO, CARIBBEAN  
SPECIALTY TRAVEL: BIRDING   TRAIN JOURNEYS   HIKING   FERRY TRAVEL   RIVER CRUISING

PHOTO JOURNALISM GALLERY
We hope you enjoy our PHOTO ESSAYS which compliment our Travel Insight Features!  You'll find a growing number of photo collection (we're working on Panama, the Calgary Stampede, a display of our real photo note cards and hand-painted historic maps) for all our adventure trips featured on this small boat cruise report site. Please visit. You can order prints online and we'll offer the same great detail that you get in our other top-rated Waterway Cruise Reports. PLEASE, give us some feed back on how you like this new photo format. Enjoy!
 

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