Viking’s new ship for the Nile River, Viking Osiris, was christened earlier this week in Egypt. The state-of-the-art ship was constructed particularly for the Nile River and can sail the cruise line’s bestselling Pharaohs & Pyramids itinerary.
Internet hosting 82 visitors in 41 staterooms, the brand new, state-of-the-art Viking Osiris is impressed by Viking’s award-winning river and ocean ships with the elegant Scandinavian design for which Viking is understood. The ship options a number of points acquainted to Viking visitors, resembling a particular sq. bow and an indoor/out of doors Aquavit Terrace.
The Viking Osiris joins the Viking Ra, which launched in 2018. Moreover, in response to robust demand, the Viking Aton, an an identical sister ship to the Viking Osiris, will be a part of the fleet in 2023. Throughout immediately’s naming occasion in Luxor, Hagen additionally introduced that two extra sister ships, the Viking Hathor and the Viking Sobek, are already below building and will likely be delivered in 2024 and 2025, respectively.
The naming of the Viking Osiris comes as Egypt marks a number of key occasions this yr, together with the extremely anticipated opening of the brand new Grand Egyptian Museum exterior of Cairo on the Giza Plateau and the one hundredth anniversary of the invention of King Tutankhamun’s tomb by the world’s most well-known Egyptologist, Howard Carter, and his benefactor and co-explorer, the fifth Earl of Carnarvon.
“Egypt has all the time drawn curious explorers for its wealthy historical past and historic antiquities, and ever since we first started working on the Nile River in 2004, our visitors proceed to be amazed by the nation’s many cultural treasures. Immediately we’re happy to formally welcome the Viking Osiris to our rising fleet on the Nile River, which permits us to welcome much more curious explorers to this unbelievable vacation spot,” mentioned Torstein Hagen, Chairman of Viking. “Throughout this milestone yr for Egypt, we’re additionally very grateful for the continued shut friendship with the Carnarvon household, and that Lord Carnarvon has honored us by serving as the primary godfather in our historical past.”
“It’s a nice honor to be requested to be godfather to the Viking Osiris, one of the stunning river vessels to have ever graced the Nile. That is particularly the case within the centenary yr of my great-grandfather’s discovery of the tomb of the Pharoah Tutankhamun, and little question he and my great-grandmother, Woman Almina, would have been delighted to board the Viking Osiris had it been crusing of their day,” mentioned Lord Carnarvon. “The fifth Earl of Carnarvon was one of many nice explorers and excavators of his time, and immediately chances are you’ll take part his love of the glories of historic Egypt, all within the distinctive consolation and elegance of the Viking Osiris.”
