You can actually take a cruise from Duluth, Minnesota, all the way to Antarctica. And the ports along the route include Thunder Bay, Parry Sound, Windsor, Cleveland and Toronto. There’s never been a cruise itinerary like it before, and the 71-day cruise that starts in Lake Superior in September is only one of a series of Longitudinal World Cruises being innovated by Viking Cruises as two of its new expedition ships explore the Great Lakes.
It’s part of a long-prophesized discovery of the Great Lakes as a cruise destination. With St. Lawrence Cruise Lines’ classic Canadian riverboat Canadian Empress as a backdrop, leaders from the cruise industry association Cruise the Great Lakes predicted at an event in early May that 2023 is set to break records, with 800 port visits generating $235-million in economic impact across the international Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River waterways.
Read it all in The Cruisington Times