Welcome to another week of extraordinary hosts and guests from around the world on daily live stream sessions. Designed to bring the world to the homes of travelers, Viking.TV is an online destination for daily cultural content - helping guests explore the world in comfort, from the comfort of their couch. Viking.TV is designed to connect former guests, future guests and anyone interested in learning more about different places around the globe with the people and cultures of the destinations Viking visits on its dozens of ocean and river itineraries. It's a great idea. Stay connected and listen to world class lecturers, visit museums, get ideas for books, movies, short documentaries, to reading lists and filmographies and classical music concerts and so much more.
Viking's seventh ocean ship,
Viking Venus, will join
its award-winning fleet in early
2021. The newest 930-guest
sister ship will spend her
maiden season sailing popular
itineraries in Scandinavia and
Northern Europe, including
British Isles Explorer,
In Search of the Northern Lights,
Viking Homelands
and
Into the Midnight Sun
.Viking will also expand its
offerings in the Mediterranean
and announced five new
itineraries that include stops
in Istanbul, marking the
company's return to the iconic
city. The new 8-day
Ancient Mediterranean Treasures
will sail between Athens and
Istanbul, with overnight stays
in both cities. Guests looking
for an extended experience in
the region
can choose a longer
versions of the itinerary,
including the 15-day
Ancient Adriatic Treasures,
which sails between Venice and
Istanbul; the 15-day
Ancient Mediterranean
Antiquities, which
sails between Rome and Istanbul;
the 22-day
Iconic Mediterranean Treasures,
which sails between Barcelona
and Istanbul; or the 29-day
Mediterranean's Iconic Shores,
which also sails between
Barcelona and Istanbul and
includes stops in Montenegro and
Croatia.
Reservations are now open for Viking's new Mississippi River cruises, which will launch in 2022. The company's first custom vessel, Viking Mississippi, will debut in August 2022 and will sail voyages on the Lower and Upper Mississippi River, between New Orleans and St. Paul. Viking's arrival will bring modern river cruising to the Mississippi and will represent a major commitment to tourism and economic development in many communities along the river. Currently scheduled ports of call on Viking's new Mississippi River cruises comprise seven U.S. states: Louisiana (Baton Rouge, Darrow, New Orleans and St. Francisville); Mississippi (Natchez and Vicksburg); Tennessee (Memphis); Missouri (Hannibal, St. Louis); Iowa (Burlington, Dubuque and Davenport); Wisconsin (La Crosse); and Minnesota (Red Wing, St. Paul). As part of an exclusive preview promised by Viking Chairman Torstein Hagen, past Viking guests have been able to book the new Mississippi River cruises since March 30, 2020 and some departure dates are already nearly or completely sold out.
Viking offers new expedition voyages. Viking Expeditions will begin sailing in January 2022 with its first vessel, Viking Octantis, embarking on voyages to Antarctica and North America's Great Lakes. A second expedition vessel, Viking Polaris, will debut in August 2022, sailing to Antarctica and the Arctic. Viking's arrival to the Great Lakes will bring the newest and most modern vessels ever to explore this region of North America and will mark a major commitment to local tourism and economic development for the states of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, as well as the Canadian province of Ontario.
