Fastly developed Viking One of the most diverse arrays of any cruise line’s journey program is.
Not only the California -based company offers ocean cruises in almost every corner of the world, but it also offers river revolutions on many major rivers of the world. This is particularly different from most cruise lines; Usually, cruise lines either cruise either the ocean or river, but not both.
Viking consists of a particularly large footprints, when it comes to the journey of European River, with a wide range of sailors on almost every European river notes, which range from Danube and Rhine to Doro in Portugal in Central Europe.
Company too River travels on the Nile River Mekong in Egypt and in Southeast Asia, and recently Started a river journey with Mississippi Too.
As a summer of 2025, the fleet of the Viking had 82 river ships – a surprising number. For North Americans, there is no main contestant between the catering river lines – which includes Avalon Waterway, Unuvild and Amavetaves – they are near the number of ships anywhere.
Among the ocean cruise destinations, the Viking has a major appearance in Scandinavia and Northern Europe, which he considers on the turf of his home. (The company was founded by a Norwegian family.) But you will find 12 traditional ocean ships of Viking everywhere from North America to Asia and Australia. In 2022, the line also looked at Antarctica with its first campaign ship-a type of vessel was designed to travel particularly remote, hard-to-wheat places. There are now two such ships in the Viking.
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Scandinavia and Northern Europe
Some of the Viking’s most interesting journey schedules are around Skandinavia and Baltic Sea, which are with many beginning or end in Norway – the company’s founder and president, Torstein Hagan’s motherland.
As Hegan once told me, Scandinavia and Baltic Sea are the ones that the company considers “Viking Country” – an area where it wants to dominate.
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Especially during the summer, the Viking dedicates an unusual large number of its vessels to the journey program around other northern European destinations such as Scandinavia, Baltic Sea and Iceland. Many especially relatively small but famous beautiful Norwegian city uses the city Bergon, Norway (Population 286,000) As an entrance, some other lines do not. It allows for abnormal variations on specific Baltic Sea or Norwegian Fozards Cruzes.
The most popular route of the line in the region is a two-week long, one-way journey between “Viking Homelands”, Bergon and Stockholm, which combines several days of discovery of Norway’s West Coast’s FJORD region with more specific Baltic Cruise sites such as Copenhagen and Talin, Estonia.
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Note that, until the invasion of Ukraine of Russia, these travel programs also included a trip to St. Petersburg, Russia – a cruise marki attraction in the Baltic region for a long time. But like other cruise brands, Viking stopped all its calls in Russia after the war began, and it is unlikely that the St. Petersburg will return to the journey program until the conflict is resolved.
Viking also offers a 14-night journey program that includes several stops in the northern part of the country above the Arctic Circle. The dub “in the midnight sun”, the one-way route between Bergon and London is unique as it connects the distant Shetland and Orkney Islands in Scotland with a distant-up-up-upsex Honingswag and Tromso, calls to Norway. However, part of the United Kingdom, these island chains have long -related relations for Norwegian and Viking History.
The journey program that takes you from Bargon to Iceland or even are available as France, Portugal and Spain.
Viking’s trips to Scandinavia and Northern Europe are widely widely in lengths ranging from seven nights to 28 nights.
The longest sailing Viking offers include the calls in northern Europe, there are 28-night trips between Bergon and New York City. The trips include stops in Norway, Iceland, Greenland and Canada.
In northern Europe, the Viking ships mostly exit Bergon, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Copenhagen, London and Reckjavik.
Mediterranean Sagar
The Viking has developed as a prominent player in the Mediterranean Sea, including more than 30 different travel programs, including stops in the area.
Travels include trips centered on the Western or Eastern Mediterranean Sea, especially, as well as some including stops in both regions.
The 14-night of the latter’s specific line is “Mediterranean Anctivity” routing, which is a one-way journey between Athens, Greece and Barcelona, with a stop in Greece, Turkish, Italy, Monaco, France and Spain.
The more concentrated Mediterranean Yatra program includes the nine-night “empire of the Mediterranean” of the line between Venice, Italy and Athens, which mostly stop along the eastern part of the Adriatic Sea in Slovenia, Croatia and Montenegro.
In the Mediterranean, the main hubs of the line are Barcelona, Sivitavecia (port for Rome) and Venice, Pirius (port for Athens) and Istanbul.
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Europe Riverways
Viking, quite easily, the giant of the river cruises in Europe – at least, among the rows that complete the English speakers. As a summer of 2025, the company operated more than 70 river ships on a wide health of the continent rivers – more than any other river line eating for North Americans.
In all, the region has a line for about half of all river cruises taken by North Americans. North Americans, the next largest player in the Europe River Cruz for Amawaterways, is less than half the size.
In the rivers of Europe where there is a major presence of viking, there are rhin, main and danub in Central Europe; Scene, Ron, Dordogne, Garon and Gironde in France; Doro in Portugal; And Mosele and Albe in Germany. Until Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Viking offered cruises on the DNIEPER River in Ukraine.
On almost all rivers, the line offers several travel programs with lengths ranging from seven nights to 22 nights.
In 10 different travel programs on Rhine alone, Prasad ranges from Amsterdam to Basel, Switzerland, from 22-night “European Sojorn” to Amsterdam to Bucharests, seven-night “Rhine Gateway” from Romania. The latter adds travel on the main and Danube rivers for days on Rhine.
The Nile
Viking provided some of the most intimate and elegant cruises on Neil, with seven ships on the river and five and the next two years to debut in the next two years.
With the exception of two old ships (Viking RA and MS Antarasis), all these Viking ships on the nile are part of one New and especially stylish series It began to debut only in 2022.
All seven of the viking indigo ships conduct the same seven-night nile cruise journey program, which is added to a hotel with a 11-night “Pharaoh and Pyramid” tour with a four-night stay at a hotel in Cairo (three nights before and after three nights before the cruise).
The cruise part of the tour includes trips to the historic temples of Luxor, Karnak, Esna, Dendera and Abu Simbel, as well as visit to the prestigious Valley of Kings. The migration in Cairo travels to Giza, Egyptian museums and pyramids of other sites.
In the new range of Viking vessels debuting in 2022, five ships offered a clean, scandinavian-influential design, which mimic as the Viking’s Europe-based ships.
In particular, the vessels have a complete deck of huge suites, which is some more rival on the Nile River for luxury and comfort. Each of these suites comes with two full-sized rooms-a large living room with a residential experience and a walk-in closet and a adjacent bedroom with bathrooms. Each suite also has an outer balcony with seating for two – something that you do not always look on on indigo ships.
Antarctica
Viking is a relative newcomer for Antarctica, but a large development area for the destination line. Viking recently Two new 378-ratri campaign cruise ships added Especially designed to travel to the white continent.
Viking Viking Octantis, the first of these ships, began a sailor to Antarctica in 2022. The second ship in the series, Viking Polaris soon started. Together, two ships have created waves in the market for Antarctica cruises, as they have many new and unusual features.
The most notable hanger is, an enclosed marina that allows passengers to move into two of the two explorers of each ship even when living in the protected interior of the ship. First for a campaign ship, this is something that greatly improves experience for travelers going on Antarctica exploration.
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For the Polar Expedition Cruise Vessels, each cabin of both the Viking octantis and the Viking Pollaris has glass walls from the floor to the roof that partially opens from the top to feel a balcony.
Viking offers several Antarctic journey programs, with Buenos Aires, a night starting at a hotel in a hotel in Argentina, with a specific journey to Ushua, to Argentina, before a flight to Argentina, one of two campaign ships for two-night cruise to ride Antarctica and back. A long version of the trip includes one of the vessels in Antarctica and 13 nights in additional days.
Viking also provides Antarctica sailors who combine the white continent with stops in Falkland Islands, Uruguay and Brazil.
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