January 6, 2029 – April 24, 2029 · 107 nights · 56 stops
Explora's name for it: Endless Worlds, our 108-day Inaugural World Journey 2029
The itinerary, port by port
56 calls over 107 nights, Dubai to Miami. 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 Dubai (DXB) open around February 2028, 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 →
Khasab sits at the tip of the Musandam Peninsula, an Omani exclave of sheer ochre cliffs dropping into the Strait of Hormuz, the reason it gets called the Norway of Arabia. Port guide →
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Mumbai
Mumbai is India's commercial capital and a dense collision of British-Raj architecture, Art Deco seafronts, and street life that runs at full volume.
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Mormugao (Goa)
Goa is the former heart of Portuguese India, and a day here splits cleanly between two very different draws: the baroque churches of Old Goa and the laid-back beaches and Latin-quarter streets that made the…
Kochi is the historic spice port of Kerala on India's southwest coast, where Portuguese, Dutch, Arab, Chinese, and Jewish trading layers all left something standing. Port guide →
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Malé
Malé is one of the most densely packed capital cities on earth, a single square mile of bright buildings, mosques, and motorbikes that bears almost no resemblance to the resort-island Maldives most people…
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Colombo
Colombo is Sri Lanka's commercial capital, a layered port city where a Dutch-and-British colonial Fort district, a chaotic bazaar, lake-side Buddhist temples, and a long seafront green all sit within a…
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Hambantota
Hambantota is a deep-water port on Sri Lanka's dry southeastern coast, and unlike Colombo there is no city day to be had at the pier.
Phuket is Thailand's largest island, anchoring the Andaman Sea coast with limestone seascapes, hilltop temples, and a Sino-Portuguese old town that predates the beach resorts by a century. Port guide →
Langkawi is a forested Malaysian island in the Andaman Sea, a duty-free archipelago of limestone karst, mangrove rivers, and rainforest that runs to the waterline. Port guide →
Singapore is a city-state where the cruise terminal sits at the edge of Marina Bay, so the skyline, the famous waterfront, and a fast, clean metro are all within minutes of the gangway. Port guide →
Surabaya is Indonesia's second city and East Java's capital, a hot, busy port best understood as a gateway rather than a destination in itself. Port guide →
Benoa is Bali's deep-water port on the island's southern neck, and your ship ties up directly at the pier with no tender. Port guide →
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Komodo
Komodo National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage site spread across volcanic islands in the Lesser Sundas, and the only place on earth where the Komodo dragon, the largest living lizard, walks wild.
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Darwin
Darwin is the Northern Territory's tropical capital, the closest Australian city to Asia and the one most shaped by World War II, when Japanese aircraft bombed the harbor in 1942.
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Port Moresby
Port Moresby is the capital of Papua New Guinea, a country with more than 800 languages and one of the planet's deepest concentrations of living tribal culture.
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Alotau
Alotau is the small capital of Milne Bay Province at the far eastern tip of mainland Papua New Guinea, set on a deep-water bay ringed by rainforest hills.
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Cairns
Cairns is the gateway city to the Great Barrier Reef and the Wet Tropics rainforest, two World Heritage areas that meet at the coast here.
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Airlie Beach
Airlie Beach is the mainland gateway to the 74 Whitsunday Islands and the central Great Barrier Reef, a compact resort town wrapped around a free swimming lagoon and a waterfront boardwalk.
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Brisbane
Brisbane is Queensland's riverside capital, a subtropical city built around a looping brown river with parkland, galleries, and reclaimed wharves at its core.
Sydney is the harbor town of Cape Breton Island, a former coal and steel city that is now the gateway to Cape Breton's Scottish, Acadian, and Mi'kmaq heritage. Port guide →
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Melbourne
Melbourne is Australia's culture-forward second city, known for laneway coffee, galleries, gardens, and a tram network that makes a day without a car easy.
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Hobart (Tasmania)
Hobart is Tasmania's harbor capital, a small Georgian city pressed between the Derwent estuary and the bulk of kunanyi/Mount Wellington.
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Sailing the Milford Sound
Milford Sound is a glacier-carved fjord on the southwest coast of New Zealand's South Island, where sheer rock walls rise straight from dark water inside Fiordland National Park.
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Port Chalmers (Dunedin)
Port Chalmers is the deepwater harbor for Dunedin, a Scottish-founded university city on the Otago coast, and the day really earns its place out on the Otago Peninsula, which has the only mainland breeding…
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Lyttelton (Christchurch)
Lyttelton is the historic port town in a volcanic crater harbor that serves Christchurch, the largest city of the South Island, rebuilt and reinvented after the 2010 to 2011 earthquakes.
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Wellington
Wellington is New Zealand's compact, hilly capital wrapped around a deep harbor, and it punches well above its size with the free national museum, a heritage cable car, and a genuinely walkable waterfront…
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Napier
Napier is the Art Deco capital of New Zealand, a Hawke's Bay seaside town leveled by a 1931 earthquake and rebuilt almost entirely in the 1930s Art Deco and Spanish Mission styles, which gives the compact…
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Tauranga
Tauranga is the gateway to the Bay of Plenty, and the cruise dock sits right at the foot of Mount Maunganui, an extinct volcanic cone the Maori call Mauao that you can climb or circle straight off the ship,…
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Auckland
Auckland is New Zealand's largest city, built across an isthmus between two harbours and a field of dormant volcanic cones, and it puts a real metropolis at the foot of the gangway.
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Waitangi (Bay of Islands)
The Bay of Islands is a maze of 144 subtropical islands off Northland, and Waitangi is its historical heart: the place where the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand's founding document, was signed in 1840.
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Lautoka (Viti Levu)
Lautoka is Fiji's second city, on the drier western side of the main island of Viti Levu, long known as the Sugar City for the cane mill and the rail line that still runs down the main street.
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Dravuni Island
Dravuni is a tiny inhabited island at the northern edge of the Kadavu group, ringed by the Great Astrolabe Reef, one of the largest barrier reefs in the world.
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Suva (Viti Levu)
Suva is Fiji's capital and the largest city in the South Pacific, on the wet, green southeastern side of Viti Levu, with a faded colonial core of timber verandas and government buildings.
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Nukuʻalofa
Nukuʻalofa is the low-rise capital of Tonga, the only Pacific nation never colonized and still a monarchy, on the flat coral island of Tongatapu.
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Arutunga (Aitutakji)
Aitutaki is a small Cook Islands volcanic island wrapped by a vast triangular lagoon that is the reason ships come here, water in graded turquoise dotted with uninhabited sand motus.
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Moʻorea
Moorea is Tahiti's nearer neighbor, a heart-shaped volcanic island where jagged green peaks rise directly behind two deep bays, Cook's and Opunohu.
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Bora Bora
Bora Bora is the lagoon that put French Polynesia on the map: a central volcanic island crowned by the sheer basalt tower of Mount Otemanu, ringed by a barrier reef and a necklace of motus in vivid blue water.
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Huahine
Huahine is the quiet, green Society Island that skips the resort sprawl: two islands joined by a bridge, dense vanilla and fruit cultivation, and one of the largest concentrations of pre-European stone…
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Raiatea
Raiatea is the second-largest of the Society Islands and the cultural cradle of eastern Polynesia, home to Taputapuatea, the marae from which ancient navigators are said to have launched voyages across the…
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Papeete (Tahiti)
Papeete is French Polynesia's capital and only real city, a working Pacific port where the territory's commerce, food, and pearl trade converge along the waterfront.
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Fakarava
Fakarava is one of the largest atolls in the Tuamotu archipelago, a rectangle of coral reef enclosing a vast lagoon, and a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve where the water clarity and marine life are the entire point.
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Bounty Bay
Bounty Bay is the single rocky landing on Pitcairn Island, the speck of British territory where the HMS Bounty mutineers settled in 1790 and burned their ship, and whose roughly four dozen descendants still…
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Easter Island
Easter Island, called Rapa Nui by its people, is one of the most isolated inhabited islands on the planet and the open-air home of the moai, the monumental stone ancestors carved and raised by a Polynesian…
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Valparaíso
Valparaíso is a working Pacific port that climbs forty-some hills above a tight harbor flat, and its historic quarter has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2003.
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Coquimbo
Coquimbo is a Pacific port town paired with its older sister city La Serena, about 11 km north up a long beachfront.
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Paracas Peninsula (Pisco)
Paracas sits where Peru's coastal desert meets a cold, wildlife-rich sea, reached through the General San Martín port near Pisco.
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Callao (Lima)
Callao is Lima's port, and the day is really about Lima itself: a viceregal capital founded in 1535 with a colonial historic center and a string of cliff-top coastal districts.
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Salaverry (Trujllo)
Salaverry is the working port for Trujillo, the colonial capital of Peru's north coast, and the day belongs to two pre-Inca cultures.
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Manta
Manta is Ecuador's tuna-fishing capital on the Pacific coast, a working port city rather than a resort, and the day earns its place mainly as the gateway to Montecristi, the town where the genuine…
Amador is a chain of small islands linked by a causeway built from Panama Canal spoil at the canal's Pacific entrance, now home to a new cruise terminal that opened in 2024. Port guide →
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Crossing the Panama Canal
The full transit lifts your ship 85 feet over the Continental Divide through a working lock system more than a century old, then sets it back down on the far ocean.
Cartagena is Colombia's old Caribbean fortress city, a UNESCO-listed walled town of balconied colonial houses, plazas, and the largest Spanish fort built in the Americas. Port guide →
Willemstad is the capital of Curacao, a UNESCO-listed Dutch colonial harbor town where pastel waterfront houses line the Handelskade and a pontoon bridge swings open across the channel for passing ships. Port guide →
Oranjestad is Aruba's capital, a compact Dutch-Caribbean town of pastel gabled buildings, a free streetcar, and duty-free shopping that sits directly behind the cruise piers. Port guide →
Miami is the busiest cruise port in the United States, set on Dodge Island in Biscayne Bay a mile or two off downtown. Port guide →
Fares on this departure, decoded
Reading the fare fine print is the job. Here's what this sailing currently carries:
World Journey
The fare attached to Explora's around-the-world sailings. 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 I, 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.
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