Orion Expedition Cruises will sail to China, Micronesia and Java and offer new routes in NZ and Japan. ANNOUNCED LAST WEEK, NEXT YEAR’S ITINERARIES incorporate the first full year of voyages for the new Orion II including several maiden visits for the expanded cruise line. China is featured for the...
Orion Expedition Cruises
will sail to China, Micronesia
and Java and offer new
routes in NZ and Japan.
ANNOUNCED LAST WEEK, NEXT YEAR’S ITINERARIES
incorporate the first full year of voyages for
the new Orion II including several maiden
visits for the expanded cruise line.
China is featured for the first time with two
expeditions in the Yangtze Delta: Kobe to
Shanghai, which offers a forest hike to a
shrine at Miyajima and Misen San holy
mountain; and Shanghai to Tawau, via Taipei
and the Philippines, with snorkelling on the
coral reefs of Ishigaki and Coron.
New Japanese cruises will focus on art,
while another has a culinary theme.
An inaugural visit to Java will explore the
temples of Borobudur in a shore excursion.
In addition to its existing itineraries, Orion
will add ‘Pure New Zealand’ and ‘Bay of Islands’.
The two purpose-built expedition cruise
ships are scheduled to undertake a total of 69
voyages to 17 countries and 174 destinations
“well off the marine superhighway”.
Other options include Antarctica, the Russian
Far East, Borneo, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand
and Cambodia (Orion II); the Kimberley
coast, Arnhem Land, Great Barrier Reef, the
Spice Islands, the Sub Antarctic islands and
Papua New Guinea (Orion).
For dates and details of departures, see
www.orionexpeditions.com.
