5 ICONIC DECKSIDE VIEWS

Here are some man-made sights guaranteed to get everyone on deck with their cameras (even at the crack of dawn). ◆ SYDNEY The moment your ship passes between the ‘Heads’ that mark the harbour entrance and ties up in between the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge. ◆ NEW YORK Sailing past the downtown skyscrapers and tying up at one of the finger jetties on the Hudson in the heart of Manhattan. ◆ VENICE Easing between the Doges’ Palace on St Mark’s Square and the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore before passing along the Guidecca Canal. ◆ ISTANBUL Arriving through the Dardanelles and into the Bosphorus, then tying up in the shadow of the city’s mosques and minarets. ◆ PANAMA The Canal, built over a century ago as a shortcut between the Pacific and the Atlantic, still ranks as arguably the greatest engineering feat yet.