Viking immediately introduced voyages on its latest Nile River ship, the Viking Hathor, at the moment are accessible for reserving. Set to debut in 2024, the Viking Hathor will be a part of the corporate’s rising fleet of purpose-built ships on the Nile River, which sail the favored 12-day Pharaohs & Pyramids itinerary. Demand in Egypt stays sturdy, with Viking’s 2023 season offered out and a few sailings into 2025 already promoting out.
“Egypt continues to be one in every of our hottest locations,” stated Torstein Hagen, Chairman of Viking. “As a rustic wealthy with historical past and tradition, we’re happy to convey the Viking method of exploration to Egypt for our visitors. With the addition of the Viking Aton this summer season and the Viking Hathor subsequent summer season, we’re trying ahead to assembly the rising demand within the area.”
The information follows latest accolades for Viking’s river fleet in Egypt. In its first 12 months of crusing, the Viking Hathor’s equivalent sister ship, the Viking Osiris, was named as one of many “Greatest New Cruises” in Conde Nast Traveler’s “2023 Scorching Record.” Moreover, TIME journal featured each Giza and Saqqara on its “World’s Best Locations of 2023” record, 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 Saqqara, the place excavation websites, just like the megatombs of animal and human mummies, are lively.
The Viking Hathor & Viking’s Rising Egypt Fleet
Internet hosting 82 visitors 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 thought. The Viking Hathor is the equivalent sister ship to the Viking Aton, which debuts in August 2023, and the Viking Osiris, which was named in 2022 by Viking’s first ceremonial godfather, the eighth Earl of Carnarvon. The sister ships function a number of elements acquainted to Viking visitors, similar to a particular sq. bow and an indoor/outside Aquavit Terrace. Along with the Viking Aton and the Viking Osiris, the Viking Hathor will be a part of the opposite ships within the Egypt fleet, the Viking Ra and the MS Antares. In response to sturdy demand, Viking could have six ships crusing the Nile by 2025 with the addition of a brand new sister ship, the Viking Sobek, which can be below development and can be delivered in 2025.
Viking’s Pharaohs & Pyramids Itinerary
Through the 12-day Pharaohs & Pyramids itinerary, visitors start with a three-night keep at a first-class lodge in Cairo, the place they will go to iconic websites such because the Nice Pyramids of Giza, the necropolis of Saqqara (also called “Sakkara”) and the Mosque of Muhammad Ali. Friends 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 Privileged Entry to the tomb of Nefertari within the Valley of the Queens and the tomb of Tutankhamen within the Valley of the Kings, and excursions to the Temple of Khnum in Esna, the Dendera Temple advanced in Qena, the temples at Abu Simbel and the Excessive Dam in Aswan, and a go to to a colourful Nubian village, the place visitors can expertise a conventional elementary faculty. Lastly, the journey concludes with a flight again to Cairo for a ultimate evening within the historic metropolis.
