{"id":14547,"date":"2010-08-16T22:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T22:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/le-ponant-to-offer-voyages-along-ancient-trading-routes-2\/"},"modified":"2010-08-16T22:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T22:53:00","slug":"le-ponant-to-offer-voyages-along-ancient-trading-routes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2010\/08\/le-ponant-to-offer-voyages-along-ancient-trading-routes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Ponant to Offer Voyages Along Ancient Trading Routes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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Le Ponant is a 290-foot sailing yacht that
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Compagnie du Ponan<\/a>t\u2019s Le Ponant<\/i> will offer 17 voyages this winter and spring that follow ancient trading routes, calling at ports such as Aqaba, Sharm el Sheikh, Muscat, Khasab, Doha, Abu Dhabi, Mumbai, Kochi, Mal\u00e9, Phuket and Penang. From Dec. 4 to April 4, the yacht will sail through Arabia, around the Maldives and India and on to Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n

Le Ponant <\/i>is a 290-foot sailing yacht that accommodates 64 guests in 32 outside staterooms. It has two restaurants, two lounges, a library and a 4,300-square-foot deck. The ship has 16,000 feet of sails.<\/p>\n

Kicking off its winter season on Dec. 4, Le Ponant<\/i>\u2019s six-night \u201cJordan & Egypt: Sacred Lands of the Red Sea\u201d starts from Alexandria and transits the Suez Canal on its way to Aqaba. The five-night \u201cOcean Voyage\u201d from Muscat to Kochi will depart Dec. 23, Jan. 18, Feb. 18 and March 24.<\/p>\n

The \u201cIndia and the Maldives: Spices and Silver Sand\u201d cruise, which departs Dec. 28 and March 10, calls at two ports in India and four islands in the \u201cPearl of the Indian Ocean\u201d archipelago. Four seven-night Mal\u00e9 roundtrip voyages, \u201cAtolls of the Maldives: Natural Aquariums and Blue Lagoons,\u201d depart Jan. 4, Jan. 11, Feb. 24 and March 3. Optional dive packages featuring eight to 10 dives are available for PADI-certified divers.<\/p>\n

The eight-night \u201cThailand and Malaysia: Islands and Marine Treasures\u201d cruises are roundtrip from Phuket and depart Jan. 25, Feb. 2 and Feb. 10. Le Ponant sails the Andaman Sea visiting Thailand\u2019s Butang, Similian and Ko Phi Phi Islands and Malaysia\u2019s Langkawi archipelago and Penang.<\/p>\n

High points of the seven-night \u201cSaris, Temples, and Lagoons,\u201d which departs March 17, include Kochi, Trivandrum and New Mangalore. The cruise continues to Goa and ends in Mumbai. In making its way back to the Mediterranean, Le Ponant follows the old Arab trading route. The seven-night \u201cLands of Honey and Incense\u201d itinerary, which departs March 28 and April 4, sails between Muscat and Dubai.<\/p>\n

Further information: www.ponant.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Le Ponant is a 290-foot sailing yacht thataccommodates 64 guests in 32 outside staterooms Compagnie du Ponant\u2019s Le Ponant will offer 17 voyages this winter and spring that follow ancient trading routes, calling at ports such as Aqaba, Sharm el Sheikh, Muscat, Khasab, Doha, Abu Dhabi, Mumbai, Kochi, Mal\u00e9, Phuket and Penang. From Dec. 4 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[342],"class_list":["post-14547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ponant-cruises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}