Viking Yi Dun Departs Shanghai, Concludes Its Chinese-Flag Era

Viking Sun - The luxury vessel - which was formerly operated by Viking Ocean Cruises - was renamed Viking Yi Dun before entering service in Asia (Photo credit China Daily)The Viking Yi Dun slipped her moorings at Shanghai’s North Bund International Cruise Terminal on June 5, beginning a roughly 60-day positioning voyage across the South China Sea.

The ship will sail past Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean, around the Cape of Good Hope and into the Mediterranean, with a scheduled arrival in Barcelona, Spain, in early August.

Viking said in a press release that the departure also marked the formal launch of what it has promoted as its first Chinese-language transcontinental itinerary, the “60-Day Afro-Euro-Asian Discovery Journey.”

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