Ponant has introduced a partnership with Smithsonian Journeys for a collection of co-branded sailings in 2023 together with a brand new Baltic Sea expedition.
The brand new nine-day expedition, Cruising the Historic Cities of the Baltic Sea, will depart on August 10 and return on August 18, 2023.
The journey will function an onboard presentation and dialogue with the previous president of Poland and Nobel Peace Prize-laureate Lech Wałęsa, in addition to Baltic historian Glenn Kranking and overseas affairs journalist Robin Wright, based on a press launch.
The cruise aboard Le Champlain will embrace visits to seven nations alongside the Baltic Sea together with Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Denmark. The ship can even go to 5 UNESCO World Heritage websites, together with the 18th-century Fortress of Suomenlinna in Helsinki and Lithuania’s Curonian Peninsula, a curved sand-dune spit and birdwatcher’s paradise.
Le Champlain will depart from Stockholm, Sweden and transfer in direction of Helsinki, Finland after which Tallinn, Estonia and Riga, Latvia. The following cease is Gotland’s capital metropolis Visby adopted by Klaipeda in Lithuania.
The ship will make a cease at Gdansk, Poland as nicely and visitors can even have the chance to discover the Danish island of Bornholm and its capital of Ronne. The journey will finish in Copenhagen, the place visitors will be capable of see the Christiansborg Palace among the many many sights.
Costs begin at $8,510 per particular person.
Ponant and Smithsonian Journey have deliberate a complete of 21 itineraries that will likely be led by two Smithsonian Journeys Specialists in an effort to deepen vacationers’ immersion in a vacation spot, based on a press launch.
