This year’s Far East-West World Cruise from Silversea will include 33 destinations the line has never visited during a world cruise, according to the line.
The Silver Shadow set off on its 132-day roundtrip voyage out of San Francisco on Monday. The ship will visit 65 destinations in 14 countries and include 20 overnights, according to the line.
The sailing will cruise much of the Pacific Rim, including Hawaii and remote Pacific islands, Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, China and Japan. The cruise will then cut back across the Pacific Ocean to Alaska, Canada and California.
Experiences during the voyage include an evening on the USS Missouri in Honolulu featuring dinner and music of the 1940s; an overnight at a luxury hotel while visiting Uluru, a mountain in the desert in Australia considered a spiritual center for the indigenous population; and a visit to the Hindu temple of Prambanan and the Buddhist temple of Borobudur Indonesia.
The day before the sailing, Silversea hosted a World Cruise Bon Voyage event in the rotunda of San Francisco City Hall, with Silversea president Barbara Muckermann in attendance to bid guests bon voyage.
The world cruise is slated to conclude on May 26.
Silversea’s 136-day Controtempo World Cruise will follow in 2025 visiting 30 countries across four continents. In 2026, the line will offer what it calls its most diverse voyage in the brand’s history with a 140-day sailing called The Curious and the Sea, inspired by the curiosity that led seafarers to unknown parts of the world.