The 5 best destinations you can visit on a Ponant cruise ship

Looking to get off the beaten path on your next cruise vacation — and to do it in style? There might be no better option than a voyage with Ponant Explorations.The expedition cruise specialist operates a fleet of 13 small, luxurious vessels specifically designed to access some of the world's most remote and hard-to-reach places.Among these vessels are some of the world's toughest polar-rated expedition ships, including the only cruise vessel capable of reaching the North Pole. These allow Ponant to offer an unusually wide mix of sailings to the polar regions of Antarctica and the Arctic — arguably the world's two most difficult-to-access destinations.Ponant is also known for offering one of the most diverse arrays of off-the-beaten-path voyages across remote parts of Oceania and the Pacific Islands, as well as around little-visited parts of Africa, the Middle East and the Indian Ocean.In addition, Ponant sails to quite a few traditional cruise destinations such as the Mediterranean and the Caribbean, though the line typically focuses on the less visited corners of those places. It also has sailings that visit parts of Canada and New England.This mix of polar, tropical and subtropic...