Sydney’s picturesque Opera Home, the enduring Moai statues of Easter Island, and the legendary Robinson Crusoe Island are only a few of the memorable stops deliberate for the maiden world voyage of a Fred. Olsen Cruise Line ship in 2025.
Bolette’s Maiden World Voyage to Discover Southern Hemisphere
Fred. Olsen Cruise Line’s Bolette will make her first world voyage in 2025, visiting various places comparable to Brazil, French Polynesia, Australia and South Africa in the course of the 106-night crusing.
Bolette is scheduled to depart Southampton, UK, on January 6, 2025, and name on Lisbon, Portugal, earlier than making her strategy to South America on a route that has been designed to emulate the primary world circumnavigation by Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano in 1519.
That historic journey set out with the aim of discovering a western commerce path to the Spice Islands and was thought-about a milestone in seamanship and exploration when accomplished in 1522.
“It is going to additionally cruise the south coast of Australia as British navigator Matthew Flinders did in 1801, and can name into locations visited by the likes of Captain James Prepare dinner and Alexander Selkirk – the Scottish sailor who was the inspiration for Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe novel,” stated Martin Lister, head of itinerary planning and vacation spot expertise at Fred. Olsen Cruise Traces.
The voyage consists of visits to a number of the most legendary locations within the Southern Hemisphere, together with the Christ the Redeemer statue in Brazil, Sydney Harbour and Opera Home in Australia, and South Africa’s Desk Mountain and Sign Hill.
Different ports of name embrace stops in Spain, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, French Polynesia, Australia, South Africa, Namibia, and Senegal.
The voyage additionally options passages of Cristo Rei, River Tagus, Belem Tower, Discovery Monument and Abril 25 Bridge (Portugal), the Magellan Strait, Cape Deseado, Alejandro Selkirk Island, and the Chilean Fjords (Chile), Pitcairn Island (French Polynesia), and a crossing of the Worldwide Date Line.
“This further particular voyage for Bolette’s first world cruise has been hand-crafted by our workforce of journey planners to allow our friends to sail within the wake of well-known historic explorers,” Lister stated.
“Company will be capable of witness a number of the world’s most spectacular vistas, expertise various tradition and encounter wildlife in addition to discover a number of the lesser recognized and fewer steadily visited gems like Robinson Crusoe Island,” Lister added.
Robinson Crusoe Island, situated about 400 miles west of San Antonio, Chile, was the house to a marooned Scottish sailor named Alexander Selkirk from 1704 to 1709, which grew to become the setting for Daniel Defoe’s novel. To capitalize on its literary standing, the Chilean authorities renamed it Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966. Solely a few thousand individuals stay on the distant island.
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Fares for the “Voyage of Exploration Across the World” cruise begin at £12,499 (USD $15,836) per particular person. Company can select between £600 per particular person to spend on board or free transfers protecting as much as 250 mainland miles from the port.
World Voyages Entice Distinctive Passengers
Bolette, previously Amsterdam from Holland America Line, was acquired by Fred. Olsen in 2020 and is one the most important ships within the firm’s fleet. At 62,735 gross tons and that includes 690 cabins, Bolette has room for 1,338 friends and 657 crew members.
The ship has six eating places, eight lounges, an leisure auditorium, and two swimming swimming pools, together with one with a retractable roof that permits friends to benefit from the water year-round.
Specialty eating places embrace Colors & Tastes, that includes a Far East-style menu, and Vasco, with its Indian-inspired delicacies.
For Bolette’s maiden world voyage, visitor audio system might be available throughout parts of the journey to ship talks to friends on the historical past and tradition of the areas visited.
One other Fred. Olsen Cruise Traces ship – Borealis – departed for a 103-night world cruise on January 5, 2024, with a extra uncommon visitor onboard: a cask of single malt whisky. A nod to historic maritime traditions, the cask will full its growing old in the course of the voyage, maturing with the assistance of sea air and the light rocking of the ship.
Borealis has a unique itinerary than the 2025 journey of Bolette. Borealis will go to Bermuda, South Carolina, Florida, the Panama Canal, Costa Rica, Hawaii, French Polynesia, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, India, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Cyrus, Greece, Malta, and Spain. The ship is scheduled to return to England on April 17, 2024.
