{"id":17952,"date":"2022-12-17T02:03:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T02:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/17\/ponant-and-smithsonian-journeys-introduce-baltic-expedition-cruise-industry-news\/"},"modified":"2022-12-17T02:03:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T02:03:15","slug":"ponant-and-smithsonian-journeys-introduce-baltic-expedition-cruise-industry-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/17\/ponant-and-smithsonian-journeys-introduce-baltic-expedition-cruise-industry-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Ponant and Smithsonian Journeys Introduce Baltic Expedition &#8211; Cruise Industry News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ponant has introduced a partnership with Smithsonian Journeys for a sequence of co-branded sailings in 2023 together with a brand new Baltic Sea expedition.<\/p>\n<p>The new nine-day expedition, Cruising the Historic Cities of the Baltic Sea, will depart on August 10 and return on August 18, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The journey will function an onboard presentation and dialogue with the previous president of Poland and Nobel Peace Prize-laureate Lech Wa\u0142\u0119sa, in addition to Baltic historian Glenn Kranking and international affairs journalist Robin Wright, in keeping with a press launch.<\/p>\n<p>The cruise aboard Le Champlain will embody visits to seven international locations alongside the Baltic Sea together with Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Denmark. The ship will even go to 5 UNESCO World Heritage websites, together with the 18th-century Fortress of Suomenlinna in Helsinki and Lithuania\u2019s Curonian Peninsula, a curved sand-dune spit and birdwatcher\u2019s paradise.<\/p>\n<p>Le Champlain will depart from Stockholm, Sweden and transfer in direction of Helsinki, Finland after which Tallinn, Estonia and Riga, Latvia. The subsequent cease is Gotland\u2019s capital metropolis Visby adopted by Klaipeda in Lithuania.<\/p>\n<p>The ship will make a cease at Gdansk, Poland as properly and company will even have the chance to discover the Danish island of Bornholm and its capital of Ronne. The journey will finish in Copenhagen, the place company will be capable of see the Christiansborg Palace among the many many sights.<\/p>\n<p>Prices begin at $8,510 per particular person.<\/p>\n<p>Ponant and Smithsonian Journey have deliberate a complete of 21 itineraries that can be led by two Smithsonian Journeys Experts so as to deepen vacationers\u2019 immersion in a vacation spot, in keeping with a press launch.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Ponant has introduced a partnership with Smithsonian Journeys for a sequence of co-branded sailings in 2023 together with a brand new Baltic Sea expedition. The new nine-day expedition, Cruising the Historic Cities of the Baltic Sea, will depart on August 10 and return on August 18, 2023. The journey will function an onboard presentation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cruiseindustrynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/lechamplain.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cruise"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoptraveler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}