The MSC Orchestra has safely docked in Cape Town on Thursday, January 13 after it voluntarily suspended all its domestic sailings in South Africa in early December.
At the time of the suspension, the luxury cruise line indicated that the temporary ban was dictated by the cruise line’s industry-leading health and safety protocol in connection with the most recent sike in COVID-19 infections in the country.
However, now that cases have seemed to drop and Cape Town and the Western Cape ready to welcome tourists the ship made her way from Durban to Port Elizabeth where she is then expected to embark passengers and depart for a 5-night cruise to Walvis Bay and Lüderitz, returning to Cape Town on of January 18.
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