White Desert

Promotion(s)

• EARLY EMPERORS

  Valid for Travel 20 Nov 2025 - 02 Dec 2025

  EARLY EMPERORS ADVENTURE - from $71,500 p/p

  Join us on an incredible adventure to one of nature’s rarest sights – an immense colony of 28,000 Emperor Penguins. Our ability to access the colony early in the season means you’ll see the chicks just as they are stepping off their parents’ feet. To capture this moment is to witness wildlife at its most extraordinary!

  Flying in via private aircraft, you will stay at one of our luxury camps in the interior of Antarctica. With only 12 guests on each departure, the experience is tailored to your needs.

  Trip inclusions:

  · Return private aircraft flights from Cape Town to Wolf’s Fang Runway, Antarctica

  · Access to the Emperor Penguin colony at Atka Bay

  · Accommodation in one of our luxury camps (Echo or Whichaway)

  · 5-star dining and beverages

  · A curated selection of our White Desert activities, which could include fat biking, champagne picnic lunch, mountain climbing, skiing, hiking, ice climbing, abseiling, ziplining, and more.

  WHICHAWAY Camp

  Whichaway is located on a rare rocky outcrop on the Schirmacher Oasis. It is surrounded by frozen lakes and a huge ice fall at the edge of a glacier. This location therefore allows some focus on our Ice Tunnels, Ice Waves and Blue River as well as a crystal cave network. It is ideal for a traveller looking to do more leisurely activities while still exploring some incredible sights. Whichaway is designed with rich interiors that conjure up images of Antarctica’s old-world heritage of exploration - luxurious leather and faux fur create an elegantly warm environment perfect for recalling the day’s adventure. During your stay at Whichaway guests can enjoy a sauna with views of the glacier.

  ECHO Camp

  Towards the interior of the continent, Echo is surrounded by some of the most impressive Nunatak mountain ranges on the planet. Set on a massive glacier, the expansive views in the area are unrivaled. The terrain feels like visiting a galaxy far far away. This location lends itself to some more adventurous activities including Ice Climbing, Mountain Climbing, Abseiling etc. Echo’s ‘Sky Pods’ are futuristic and luxurious, the six bedrooms are created from composite fibreglass with floor to ceiling windows allowing guests to soak in the moon-like landscape beyond.

• SOUTH POLE & EMPERORS

  Valid for Travel 20 Nov 2025 - 04 Feb 2026

  SOUTH POLE & EMPERORS- from $110,000 p/p

  This luxury adventure takes you into the heart of Antarctica to see the Emperor Penguins. Then it's on to the southernmost point on earth – the South Pole!

  Flying in via private aircraft, you will stay at one of our luxury camps in the interior of Antarctica. With only 12 guests on each departure, the experience is tailored to your needs.

  Trip inclusions:

  · Return private aircraft flights from Cape Town to Wolf’s Fang Runway, Antarctica

  · Access to the Emperor Penguin colony at Atka Bay

  · Trip to the South Pole and overnight at Dixie's Camp

  · Accommodation in one of our luxury camps (Echo or Whichaway)

  · 5-star dining and beverages

  · A curated selection of our famous White Desert activities, which could include fat biking, champagne picnic lunch, mountain climbing, Arctic Truck ‘Antarctic’ safaris, skiing, hiking, ice climbing and abseiling

  WHICHAWAY Camp

  Whichaway is located on a rare rocky outcrop on the Schirmacher Oasis. It is surrounded by frozen lakes and a huge ice fall at the edge of a glacier. This location therefore allows some focus on our Ice Tunnels, Ice Waves and Blue River as well as a crystal cave network. It is ideal for a traveller looking to do more leisurely activities while still exploring some incredible sights. Whichaway is designed with rich interiors that conjure up images of Antarctica’s old-world heritage of exploration - luxurious leather and faux fur create an elegantly warm environment perfect for recalling the day’s adventure. During your stay at Whichaway guests can enjoy a sauna with views of the glacier.

  ECHO Camp

  Towards the interior of the continent, Echo is surrounded by some of the most impressive Nunatak mountain ranges on the planet. Set on a massive glacier, the expansive views in the area are unrivaled. The terrain feels like visiting a galaxy far far away. This location lends itself to some more adventurous activities including Ice Climbing, Mountain Climbing, Abseiling etc. Echo’s ‘Sky Pods’ are futuristic and luxurious, the six bedrooms are created from composite fibreglass with floor to ceiling windows allowing guests to soak in the moon-like landscape beyond.

• Best of Both

  Valid for Travel 27 Jan 2026 - 04 Feb 2026

  White Desert is offering the chance to experience both our camps - WHICHAWAY and ECHO - in a single 8-day journey.

  So often, we are asked how to choose between the two, given that both are exceptional places to stay, yet situated in completely different environments. Whichaway is dramatic and luxurious; Echo otherworldly and unique.

  Now, there is the BEST Of BOTH itinerary! Places are limited to only 12 clients in each camp and the dates run from 27th January 2026 – 4th February 2026. As part of the experience, we will fly to the lowest point on Earth – the Geographic South Pole – and also into some little-explored mountains that are truly surreal in form.

  This combination trip allows guests to experience the ‘Blue River’ of Whichaway, where the iridescent colour of the water is simply dazzling. There is also the ‘Crystal Cave’ where hexagonal chandeliers of ice cascade across the ceiling.

  Guests will also head to Echo Base, situated in the mountains. Pitted walls of rock break through the ice cap, creating a perspective so bizarre that astronaut Buzz Aldrin said it looked more like the surface of the moon than anything on earth.

  This is the only time White Desert is offering the chance to stay in both our luxury camps this season.