SWAN Hellenic has unveiled its cultural expedition cruises for next year, exploring the Arctic, Antarctica, Brazil, the Bissagos Islands, Norway, and more. Vega and her slightly larger sister ship Diana extend eight-day explorations to epic 21-night semi-circumnavigation voyages. The smaller ship will explore the Antarctic Peninsula from Ushuaia until early...
SWAN Hellenic has unveiled its cultural expedition cruises for next year, exploring the Arctic, Antarctica, Brazil, the Bissagos Islands, Norway, and more.
Vega and her slightly larger sister ship Diana extend eight-day explorations to epic 21-night semi-circumnavigation voyages.
The smaller ship will explore the Antarctic Peninsula from Ushuaia until early Mar, when she’ll steer west on a 21-day South Atlantic Semi-Circumnavigation cruise, visiting the rugged, volcanic Gough Island, and Tristan de Cunha, on her way to Cape Town.
This voyage will be followed by expedition cruises up West Africa and on to Lisbon, before coasting the Atlantic seaboard to Honfleur.
Celtic discovery voyages of Cornwall, Ireland, Wales, and Scotland will then take Vega on into Iceland, Norway and the Arctic for her summer season.
Vega will then cross from Greenland to Halifax in Sep, then southward to spend Oct and Nov deep in the Caribbean and Brazil through to the end of Nov.
Meanwhile, Diana will be based in Antarctica until late Feb, when she’ll turn north into the fjords and channels of Chile, and up the entire west coast of South and Central America to La Paz.
Diana will then return south to the Panama Canal to discover Cuba, before proceeding up the East Coast of the United States to Halifax.
From here, she’ll cross to Greenland in late May for her Arctic Season, before leaving Tromso in Jul for the Norwegian fjords, Scotland, and the Netherlands.
Making her way down the Atlantic seaboard, she’ll enter the Mediterranean, before she transits the Suez Canal and Red Sea in Oct to explore the Seychelles, Madagascar, and South Africa through until late Nov.
Diana will leave Cape Town for a semi-circumnavigation voyage to the Antarctic Peninsula and Ushuaia, arriving in early Dec for the start of her next Antarctic season.
“We’re truly delighted with the fantastic itineraries our experts have curated for 2024, enriched with exciting new destinations, including Cuba and the Bijagos islands,” Chief Executive Officer Andrea Zito said.
“We’re now offering an unrivalled choice of worldwide opportunities to see what others don’t with unique style and personalisation.”
Unfortunately, Swan Hellenic’s third ship Minerva remains entangled in a legal deadlock with Russia’s largest leasing company GLTK (CW 31 Jan 2023), the line confirmed to Cruise Weekly, with hopes she will commence operations soon.
