Nice information for Nile River adventurers! Viking® has introduced a big milestone in developing their latest ship, the Viking Hathor. This state-of-the-art vessel will debut in August 2024 and be part of Viking’s in style 12-day Pharaohs & Pyramids itinerary.
First, options of the brand new Viking Hathor, then extra info on the Viking Egypt program, adopted by some private reminiscences of our journey to Egypt after which on to Jordan.
- Accommodating 82 friends
- That includes elegant Scandinavian design
- Crusing the favored Pharaohs & Pyramids itinerary
The Viking Hathor & Viking’s Rising Egypt Fleet
Internet hosting 82 friends in 41 staterooms, the brand new, state-of-the-art Viking Hathor is impressed by Viking’s award-winning river and ocean ships with the elegant Scandinavian design for which Viking is understood. An equivalent sister ship to the Viking Osiris and the Viking Aton, the Viking Hathor options a number of elements acquainted to Viking friends, reminiscent of a particular sq. bow and an indoor/outside Aquavit Terrace. Viking can have six ships crusing the Nile by 2025 with the addition of one other sister ship, the Viking Sobek, which is already beneath development and shall be delivered subsequent yr. Further ships within the Egypt fleet at present embrace the Viking Ra and the MS Antares.
Viking’s Pharaohs & Pyramids Itinerary
Through the 12-day, Pharaohs & Pyramids itinerary, friends start with a three-night keep at a first-class resort in Cairo, the place they will go to iconic websites such because the Nice Pyramids of Giza, the necropolis of Sakkara, the Mosque of Muhammad Ali, or the Grand Egyptian Museum. Company then fly to Luxor, the place they go to the Temples of Luxor and Karnak earlier than boarding a Viking river ship for an eight-day roundtrip cruise on the Nile River, that includes visits to the tomb of Nefertari within the Valley of the Queens and the tomb of Tutankhamun within the Valley of the Kings, and excursions to the Temple of Khnum in Esna, the Dendera Temple complicated in Qena, the temples at Abu Simbel and the Excessive Dam in Aswan, and a go to to a colourful Nubian village, the place friends can expertise a conventional elementary college. Lastly, the journey concludes with a flight again to Cairo for a remaining evening within the historic metropolis.
Lately, the Viking Osiris was named one of many “Greatest New Cruises” in Condé Nast Traveler’s “Scorching Record” and the “Greatest Luxurious River Cruise” in Forbes’ “Greatest Luxurious Cruises” listing. Moreover, TIME journal featured each Giza and Saqqara on its “World’s Best Locations” listing, recommending crusing the Nile River with Viking. TIME notes that Viking is among the many only a few who cease in each Giza and the village of Sakkara, the place excavation websites, just like the megatombs of animal and human mummies, are lively.
Nice information for anybody trying to prolong their Egyptian journey with Viking! Viking provides Pre and Put up Extensions that present Privileged Entry to unique archives and reveals, making your journey much more unforgettable:
- Privileged Entry: Get a better take a look at Egyptian historical past with unique entry to archives and reveals not usually open to the general public.
- Knowledgeable Egyptologist: Journey with a Viking Tour Director, an professional Egyptologist who will share their information and insights all through your journey.
- Distinctive Experiences: Immerse your self in Egyptian tradition with distinctive experiences like a personal, early morning go to to the Egyptian Assortment on the British Museum.
- World-Famend Museums: Go to famend museums just like the British Museum, the Petrie Museum, the Ashmolean Museum, and Oxford College’s Griffith Institute.
- Unique Visits: Take pleasure in unique visits to Highclere Citadel to view the Earl of Carnarvon’s magnificent non-public assortment of Egyptian artifacts.
Further choices embrace a three-night Pre-Extension in Istanbul, the place friends can go to the timeless metropolis and necessary non secular websites together with the “Blue Mosque” and the legendary Hagia Sophia. After concluding the river voyage, friends may also prolong the journey with a 4-night Put up-Extension to Jordan—Petra, Useless Sea & Ammanto view Roman antiquities at Jerash, Crusader-era castles at Kerak or Shobak and expertise the misplaced metropolis of Petra, a UNESCO World Heritage Website.
I’ve not personally sailed with Viking in Egypt however a latest, complete journey in Egypt & Jordan with Abercrombie & Kent visited a whole lot of the identical locations on the Nile. On the time, I collected admission tickets to all of the points of interest we visited. Listed below are pictures of these tickets:
