Ganga Vilas luxury cruise reaches Varanasi; to be flagged off by PM on Friday

Varanasi: The Ganga Vilas luxury cruise which will be flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday reached Varanasi on Monday evening. 31 tourists from Switzerland arrived in Varanasi yesterday (January 10) and they will embark upon the world's longest cruise journey on this luxury ship on Friday.

Tourists from Switzerland were given a warm welcome by the local administration and traditional art performers yesterday. Today and tomorrow the tourists will visit different places in Varanasi and will have a look at the oldest living city on the earth. On Friday Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag off the Ganga Vilas on world's



longest cruise journey from Varanasi to Dibrugarh.

The cruise will cover 3,200 kilometres in 50 days. Passing through the rivers of India and Bangladesh, the cruise will be covering 27 different river systems and will stop at over 50 tourist sites, including world heritage. This will be the largest river journey by a single river ship in the world and would put both India and Bangladesh on the river cruise map of the world. The manager of The cruise Raj Singh told that the tourists are very excited about this journey and there are many luxury arrangements for them on the cruise.