Norwegian offers 17-country, 44-port trip

Friday, 28 Jun, 2007 0

Norwegian Coastal Voyage’s has introduced what it terms a 67-day “Longitudinal World Explorer Cruise” making its way from pole to pole.

Guests aboard the company’s new expedition ship, the 318-passenger MS Fram, begin the trip in Iceland, then:

They take in the advent of the October Fall foliage season from the northern reaches of Canada to New England and down the US’s eastern seaboard, spend time soaking in the warm, sunny weather and tropical waters of the Caribbean, transit the Panama Canal – and then skip to Spring as the ship crosses the Equator and makes it way along the western shores of South America to Antarctica and the Chilean Fjords.

The 17-country, four-continent expedition takes in 44 ports of call, ranging from the smaller and more unusual such as Arica, Chile, to many firsts for the company, such as New York City and Boston.

The cruise offers 102 optional shore excursions. These run the gamut – an eight-hour exploration of Iceland’s thermal activity; an Irish pub; bicycle tour of Nova Scotia’s rugged coastline; lunch with an astronaut at Kennedy Space Center; cave tubing in Belize; dolphin encounters; tour of a banana processing plant; cave exploration in Panama; a visit to a Chilean ghost town; fly fishing in a forest preserve; and icebergs, penguins and other wildlife in Antarctica.

The 12,700-ton eight-deck ship is the first cruise ship built exclusively for sailing in the challenging maritime environment of Greenland from May through September.

Full-cruise rates are $10,999 to $39,999 per person, double; segments from 8 to 52 nights are offered at prices of $2,499 to $25,599. Rates include selected cabin category, all meals on board and lectures by experts and naturalist guides.
Report by David Wilkening

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