Share a Be My Guest dinner at The Fish Sheds with hosts Becky and Alex, overlooking Bonne Bay. Settle in for a three-course feast of fresh, local ingredients—from North Atlantic seafood to foraged greens—served in a lovingly restored fishing shed.

Tour the grounds and discover artifacts from the inshore fishery as your hosts weave stories of family, foodways, and the resilience that shapes Newfoundland’s culinary scene.

Set out on a guided walk through Terra Nova National Park, Canada’s most easterly national park. Trace sheltered inlets and boreal forest, watching for seabirds over headlands and the quiet patterns of bog and barrens.

Learn how glacial geology shaped this coastline and how conservation supports wildlife corridors. As a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER Experience, your visit aligns with efforts to protect fragile habitats and promote responsible enjoyment of wild places.

Tour Red Bay National Historic Site, a UNESCO World Heritage harbour where Basque crews hunted right and bowhead whales in the 1500s. Walk the waterfront and museum to grasp a transatlantic industry in miniature.

See artifacts from the sunken galleon San Juan and the tiny chalupa boats that ferried crews to whales. Learn how rendered oil once lit European cities, linking Labrador to the Old World.

• 5 Dinner (D)
• 11 Breakfast (B)
• 1 Lunch (L)

• St. John’s: Newfoundland brings new sights, languages, foods and traditions with every city. In St. John’s, join a one-of-a-kind experience, the Screech-in Ceremony. This Newfoundland tradition gives CFAs (Come from Away’s) like you the opportunity to be an honorary Newfoundlander. Tradition goes that you recite a local saying, kiss a cod fish (a once-primary export), take a shot of Newfoundland Screech rum and be declared an honorary Newfoundlander. To commemorate the fun ritual, you’ll get a certificate confirming your title.
• St. John’s: Your Travel Director reveals the must-sees of St John’s on a city tour. Start with a stop at Cape Spear to see the oldest surviving lighthouse in Newfoundland. Next up is Signal Hill, the site of St. John’s Harbor defenses from the 17th century to the Second World War, for panoramic city views. It’s also the location of Cabot Tower, where the first Trans-Atlantic wireless message was received over 100 years ago. Your Travel Director reveals the must-sees of St John’s on a city tour. Start with a stop at Cape Spear to see the oldest surviving lighthouse in Newfoundland. Next up is Signal Hill, the site of St. John’s Harbor defenses from the 17th century to the Second World War, for panoramic city views. It’s also the location of Cabot Tower, where the first Trans-Atlantic wireless message was received over 100 years ago.
• St. John’s: Visit Cupids, the second oldest English Settlement in North America. The small town is celebrated for its architecture and archaeological sites. Then visit the picturesque village of Brigus, well well-kept with old-style architecture, rustic stone walls, lush green gardens, and winding narrow lanes are reflective of its English, Irish, and Welsh heritage.
• Cape Bonavista: Visit the Lighthouse on Cape Bonavista and see if you can spot whales, icebergs and puffins (in season).
• Clarenville: Join a Local Specialist on a walking tour of Trinity, a magical little town. Learn about the colorful history of its inhabitants, the Beothuk people, the French, the Irish, and the English.
• Gander: Join a local specialist for a tour around Gander, which served as inspiration for the international Broadway musical “Come from Away,” Learn about the significant role this small Newfoundland community played during the 9/11 disaster.
• Twillingate: Join a local specialist this morning for a guided walk in Terra Nova National Park. You’ll encounter a landscape of sheltered inlets, headlands and forests.
• Gros Morne: Visit the scenic Lobster Cove Head Lighthouse and breathe in the sea air.
• Gros Morne: Trace the rugged and scenic coastline of Western Newfoundland with a stop at Arches Provincial Park, a unique natural rock archway created by tidal action.
• St. Anthony: Continue to L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site for a tour of the UNESCO-listed 11th century Viking settlement.
• L’Anse-au-Clair: Learn how to shuck a scallop like a local at a farm in Blanc Sablon.
• L’Anse-au-Clair: With our Local Specialist, encounter a millennia of human history at the crossroads of four ancient cultures in Port aux Choix National Historic Site.

• Selected hotel dinners plus a locally hosted meal
• 4-star stays
• Deluxe coach travel

Set sail for the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve, gliding past green headlands to colonies of Atlantic seabirds. In season, watch puffins and humpbacks feeding in rich, cold currents as icebergs drift offshore.

On this scenic boat cruise, naturalists share insight into nesting cliffs, marine life and conservation. This optional excursion is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Discover St. John’s on a guided panoramic tour, from colour-washed row houses to its working harbour. Ascend Signal Hill National Historic Site to Cabot Tower, where Marconi received the first transatlantic wireless message, and take in sweeping Atlantic views.

Continue to Cape Spear National Historic Site, the easternmost point in North America. Stroll past a 19th-century lighthouse to dramatic cliffs where seabirds ride the wind and ocean swells pound the headland—perfect for evocative photos and perspective.

Explore Cupids, founded in 1610 and among the earliest English settlements in North America. Wander lanes lined with salt-box houses and learn how archaeology and storytelling keep the settlement’s origins alive.

Travel on to Brigus, famed for stone walls, flowered lanes and seafaring lore. Walk the Brigus Tunnel, hand-cut in the 1860s to reach deep-water wharves, and pause over the harbour to absorb the community’s enduring seafaring heritage.

Visit the storied Cape Bonavista Lighthouse, one of Newfoundland’s most picturesque signals from the age of sail. Carefully climb the lantern tower of this mid-19th-century light, once fueled by seal oil, for wide-angle Atlantic views.

Scan the horizon to spot puffins and whales, and, in spring, shimmering icebergs in season. Inside, exhibits reveal the daily rhythms of lighthouse keepers who safeguarded ships along this rugged, fog-prone coast.

Walk historic Trinity with a Local Specialist, threading past clapboard churches, weathered wharves, and lovingly kept saltbox houses. This sheltered harbour town reveals centuries of mercantile enterprise and outport life.

Hear layered tales of Beothuk presence and waves of French, Irish and English settlers. Step inside restored merchant premises and along coves where wooden stages once bustled with the cod fishery, all against a postcard-perfect shoreline.

Visit Gander, a small town with a global heart. Hear how the community opened its doors during 9/11 when transatlantic flights were diverted, turning the airport into a haven of kindness and quick thinking.

Uncover the town’s pioneering role in aviation heritage as a former mid-Atlantic refuelling hub. The warmth that inspired Come From Away comes alive in first-hand accounts of volunteers, passengers and enduring friendships.

Visit the Whale Pavilion in King’s Point and stand beneath a 50-foot humpback skeleton, an awe-inspiring reminder of the giants that migrate along Newfoundland’s coast.

Exhibits connect North Atlantic marine ecology with outport life, revealing how ocean rhythms shape culture and economy. Learn about whale biology, conservation, and the community’s ties to coastal waters.

Follow a Local Specialist along the Tablelands Trail where ochre peridotite reveals the Earth’s mantle exposed at the surface. The stark, otherworldly landscape contrasts with the park’s lush valleys.

Discover how colliding continents uplifted this geology and why nutrient-poor rocks support rare plants. Part of UNESCO-listed Gros Morne National Park, the Tablelands tell a cornerstone story of plate tectonics.

Visit Lobster Cove Head Lighthouse, set high above the surf at Gros Morne’s entrance. Wander coastal headland trails where seabirds wheel and wildflowers cling to wind-worn rock.

Inside the keeper’s house, exhibits illuminate outport heritage—from family life to the cod fishery that sustained nearby communities. Step outside for sea-air views across rocky coves and distant headlands.

Trace a rugged shoreline en route to Arches Provincial Park, where surf and time have carved striking sea-carved arches from ancient limestone. The setting is a photographer’s delight.

Learn how pounding waves, frost and uplift shaped this rugged coastline along the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Pause at pullouts for sweeping views, salt spray and the soundscape of the North Atlantic.

Explore L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site, a windswept UNESCO World Heritage landscape where Norse explorers built a foothold c. 1000 CE. Step into reconstructed turf longhouses and imagine life at the edge of the known world.

Meet costumed interpreters, examine artifacts and view the archaeological remains that confirm the only authenticated Norse settlement in North America—set amid bogs, berries and bracing sea air.

Climb Point Amour Lighthouse, the tallest in Atlantic Canada, rising 33 metres above the Strait of Belle Isle. Its stone tower commands sweeping views of sea, cliffs and shoreline.

Built in 1857 to guard a treacherous strait, the light’s exhibits share shipwreck tales and keeper life. On clear days, scan for drifting pack ice and seabirds coursing the wind.

Visit Port au Choix National Historic Site with a Local Specialist to trace thousands of years of Indigenous cultures on Newfoundland’s northwest coast. Exhibits reveal Maritime Archaic and Dorset lifeways shaped by rich marine resources.

View artifacts, model dwellings and shoreline sites that map 4,500 years of seasonal movement, hunting, and sophisticated adaptation to the cold Labrador Current and its bounty.

Visit a working aquaculture site to learn how to shuck a scallop like a local. Meet the experts, handle the tools, and appreciate the care behind a delicacy fresh from cold Labrador waters.

Guided tastings invite you to taste live and cooked scallops side by side, paired with wine. Discover how this working scallop farm sustains coastal communities while championing quality and traceability.

Board the EMM-CAT for a catamaran cruise across Bonne Bay, where saffron Tablelands meet glacier-scoured mountains. Glide beneath sheltered arms with commentary on geology and outport traditions.

Watch for eagles, seabirds and occasional minke whales as you trace the meeting point of tablelands and fjords. This optional excursion is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Venture by trail to the dock and cruise Western Brook Pond, a glacially carved, landlocked fjord framed by billion-year-old cliffs. Waterfalls thread down amphitheatre walls as the boat slips into silent coves.

Guides interpret geology and ecology while you photograph towering cliffs and waterfalls reflected in tannin-dark waters. This optional excursion is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Trafalgar

Experience St. John’s hospitality at a lively evening where you’ll join a Screech-in Welcome Ceremony. Recite the local oath, kiss a cod, and toast with Newfoundland Screech rum as music and stories fill the room. By night’s end, you’ll be declared an honorary Newfoundlander and receive a keepsake certificate.

Rooted in centuries of seafaring culture, this playful rite weaves humour with heritage. Expect foot-tapping tunes, tall tales and the warm camaraderie that defines Newfoundland’s outport traditions.