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Setting sail on the Seine – a solid New Year’s resolution if you ask us. (Photo: Andrey Krav/Getty Images) New Year, new cruise! We rounded up a dozen fresh ways to set sail in 2017, from debut ships to newly launched itineraries. Here are 12 new places to cruise in 2017.

That’s it. There are no more. The last living mountain gorillas spend their days in the densely forested mountain range that is shared by Uganda, Rwanda, and the Congo. Through human population growth and poaching, the numbers of the mountain gorillas have dwindled to just 800. We got a chance to get up close to one family as part of our African safari with Acacia Africa. We visited the gorillas in the beautiful country of Uganda. This part of Africa is the image most people get when they think of the continent. Uganda is lush, bright green plants cover the red soil and the skies are a deep blue with crisp white clouds. As we approached the western edge of Uganda the terrain became very hilly and the roads windy. The hills looked like a patchwork quilt of different shades of green with small plots of tea, vegetables, and coffee. The most striking feature was the morning mist. The dampness of the night would spill over into the morning and cover the hills in a blanket of white mist....

An overland safari through Africa is an incredible experience and one of the few affordable ways to travel Africa. For us, and I am sure many other people, we didn’t know what to expect on an overland safari. So we put this guide together to give some insight of what life is like on an overland safari through Africa. We spent 43-days traveling from Nairobi to Cape Town with Acacia Africa and then returned the following year for 58-days Nairobi to Cape Town again but trekking to the mountain gorillas in Uganda. Along the way, we ran into different trucks from other companies and learned most safaris run in a similar fashion. While there maybe a few specifics that vary between companies, overall this is what to expect on an overland safari. This is the stuff we wished we would have known before going on an African safari. The Truck Life on an overland safari revolves around the truck. The truck gets you and all of you stuff from place to place and campsite to campsite. The trucks them...