Viking has taken delivery of the company's newest ship for the Nile River, the Viking Sobek. The delivery ceremony took place when the new ship was presented at Massara shipyard in Cairo.
Viking has been aggressively adding to its Nile fleet, which already includes five ships. The 82-passenger Sobek is a sister ship to the Viking Osiris, Viking Aton and Viking Hathor.
The Sobek will ply the 12-day Pharaohs & Pyramids itinerary. Viking plans to welcome four additional ships in the next two years -- the Viking Amun and Viking Thoth in 2025 and the Viking Sekhmet and Viking Ptah in 2026. That would bring Viking's fleet to 10 Nile ships.
The Pharaohs & Pyramids cruise tour begins with a three-night stay at a hotel in Cairo, where guests will visit iconic sites such as the Great Pyramids of Giza, the necropolis of Sakkara, the Mosque of Muhammad Ali or the Grand Egyptian Museum. Guests then fly to Luxor, where they visit the Temples of Luxor and Karnak before boarding a Viking river ship for an eight-day roundtrip cruise on the Nile.