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EXPLORA II · Grand Journeys

10 nights, San Juan to Manaus

February 6, 2028 – February 17, 2028 · 10 nights · 8 stops

Explora's name for it: A Journey through Coastal History & the Heart of the Amazon

San Juan (open port guide)San JuanLittle Bay (open port guide)Bridgetown (open port guide)Devil's Island (open port guide)Macapá (open port guide)Santarem (Pará) (open port guide)Boca da Valeria (open port guide)Manaus (open port guide)Manaus

The itinerary, port by port

8 calls over 10 nights, San Juan to Manaus. Open any port for my full day-ashore guide, what to see, when to go, and how the day actually runs.

Getting there: Flights to San Juan (SJU) open around March 2027, about 11 months before you sail. I track that window for booked clients and flag it the moment it is worth booking. When to book your flights →

  1. Embark
    San Juan

    San Juan's old quarter is a walled Spanish colonial town on a headland, founded in the early 1500s, with two stone forts run by the U.S. Port guide →

  2. 2
    Little Bay

    Little Bay is the emerging capital district on the north coast of Montserrat, the British territory whose southern half, including the original capital Plymouth, was buried by the Soufriere Hills volcano… Port guide →

  3. 3
    Bridgetown

    Barbados's capital is a UNESCO-listed Georgian port town wrapped around a careenage, with British colonial bones, a Parliament still in session, and a turtle-filled bay a short taxi away. Port guide →

  4. 4
    Devil's Island

    The Îles du Salut are three small granite islands off French Guiana that France ran as a penal colony from 1852 until the 1940s, the system the wider world remembers as Devil's Island. Port guide →

  5. 5
    Macapá

    Macapá is the capital of Amapá state, sitting directly on the equator at the northern mouth of the Amazon, where the line literally runs through the city's Marco Zero monument and even through the midfield… Port guide →

  6. 6
    Santarem (Pará)

    Santarem sits where the clear blue-green Tapajos River meets the silt-brown Amazon, a port city founded by the Portuguese in 1661 and one of the oldest in the Brazilian Amazon. Port guide →

  7. 7
    Boca da Valeria

    Boca da Valeria is a tiny riverside village of roughly 75 people at the mouth of the Valeria River, about 850 miles up the Amazon near the Pará-Amazonas border. Port guide →

  8. Disembark
    Manaus

    Manaus is the million-person Amazonian capital that grew rich on the rubber boom of the 1890s to 1910s and spent that money on European architecture set down in the middle of the rainforest, a thousand… Port guide →

Fares on this departure, decoded

Reading the fare fine print is the job. Here's what this sailing currently carries:

Invitation to Discover More
Explora's discovery fare, available across most of the calendar. Onboard credit where the offer applies.
Early Booking Benefit
A fare for booking far enough ahead of departure. Onboard credit where the offer applies.

The ship and your suite

This sailing is aboard EXPLORA II, all-suite, every suite with a private ocean-front terrace. Suites run from the entry Ocean Terrace to the Owner's Residence; the right tier depends on how you travel. Compare suites → · What's included →


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