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The world's longest river cruise to run between Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh and Dibrugarh in Assam from January 2023.

The 50-day cruise will set sail from Varanasi on 10 January and cover 4,000 km, passing through Kolkata and Dhaka in Bangladesh before reaching Bogibeel in Dibrugarh on 1 March.

The name of the cruise is Ganga Vilas, which will sail from Varanasi to Dibrugarh in the longest river journey of 50 days covering 27 river systems and visiting over 50 tourist sites including World Heritage Sites.

This will be the largest river cruise by a single river ship in the world and will put both India and Bangladesh on the river cruise map of the world.