Two new Viking ships dedicated to Nile cruising were christened during a ceremony at the exclusive Viking dock at the Luxor archaeological site.
The Viking Hathor was named after an ancient Egyptian goddess associated with motherhood. this Viking Sobek It is the name of the crocodile god.
The specifications of these ships are similar to Viking Aton And the Viking Osiris, which was already sailing on the Nile.
Viking Cruises Chairman Thorstein Hagen praised the ships and said: “As our award-winning fleet on the Nile continues to grow, we look forward to introducing more curious travelers to this extraordinary destination. “
The 82-passenger ship is the fifth and sixth to enter service on the Nile, where Viking Cruises plans to build a fleet of 10 ships.
The two dignitaries served as godfathers of etiquette. Edward Herbert, named for the Viking Hathor, great-great-grandson of the 5th Earl of Carnarvon, who funded the 1922 expedition that discovered King Tut’s tomb at Luxor .
Mohamed El Banna, who named the Viking Sobek, is a member of the Egyptian Senate and the founder of Cosmos Egypt, a Cairo-based travel agency and the country’s oldest destination management company.
The two ships will be deployed on Viking’s 12-day Pharaohs and Pyramids itinerary, which begins with a three-night stay in a hotel in Cairo and allows guests to visit the Great Pyramids of Giza, the Saqqara Necropolis, the Mosque of Muhammad Ali or the Grand Egyptian Museum.
Guests will then fly to Luxor to visit the Luxor and Karnak temples before boarding a Viking ship for an eight-day round-trip cruise on the Nile.
