Being on board a cruise ship for months at a time is NOT something that appeals to everyone.
However, most who do it come back raving fans of these extended voyages.
After you’ve done one or two world cruises, what could possibly be next on your bucket list?
SilverSea has one potential answer: An Expedition style World Cruise.
There is no doubt that expedition cruising is growing much faster than the rest of the cruise industry. As people get weary of visiting the Caribbean ports of call over and over, they begin looking for more interesting places to explore. What used to be a very niche offering, is now a whole subset of the cruise industry.
So it was probably only a matter of time before someone came out with the extended version of the expedition cruise.
The Silver Cloud will be departing Ushuaia (at the southern tip of South America) on January 30, 2021 for the first Expedition World Cruise in history.
She will do several days in Antarctica before heading to more moderate latitudes. Guests on board will visit the Chilean fjords, followed by some zig-zagging through the South Pacific to places like Easter Island, Tahiti, Fiji and Tonga, before making a port stop in Cairns, Australia.
One doesn’t normally associate Australia with expedition cruising, but Cairns is the perfect port to explore the Great Barrier Reef, which fits perfectly into an expedition cruise. From Australia, the Cloud will head up to South Asia before moving eastward through the Indian Ocean to Sri Lanka and India.
The next leg of this cruise is decidedly less “expedition”. During the month of June, the Cloud will sail up the Red Sea, and into the Mediterranean briefly, on her way to Iceland. After six port stops in Iceland, the Cloud will head further north into the Arctic Circle to Svalbard before sailing south again to finish in Tromso, Norway on July 16, 2021.
Here’s the summary: 167 days, 107 ports of call, 30 countries, and to the best of my knowledge the only cruise ever to have included both the Arctic and Antarctic circles.
“How much?” is probably the next question. We’ll have to wait until March to find out.
Looking at how SilverSea prices its other expedition cruises, I would expect pricing for this journey to start at around $100k per person. Knowing SilverSea, this will be a highly inclusive price.
So, if you’re looking for a bucket list trip that has really never been done before, OR if you’re thinking that a segment of this trip might be worth taking, then take a look at the Silver Cloud.
In either case you will have earned pretty cool bragging rights.
Click here to learn more about the first-ever Expedition World Cruise: https://www.silversea.com/destinations/world-cruise/world-cruise-2021-expedition.html
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Sue Bradley
Sue Bradley
