EXPLORA I · South America & Amazon

11 nights, San Juan to Manaus

February 5, 2027 – February 17, 2027 · 11 nights · 9 stops

Explora's name for it: A Journey of Amazon Exploration & Cultural Discovery

This sailing runs one way from San Juan to Manaus, eleven nights, nine stops, descending the Caribbean before turning up the Amazon. It front-loads the islands. You start at the Old San Juan piers, where the cobbled grid of pastel houses and two stone forts sit a few steps from the gangway. Then small-ship calls a larger line can't make: Gustavia, where St Barths keeps big ships out so only the outer harbor and a tender bring you in, and Saint-Pierre, the town that rebuilt among the ruins of the 1902 Mont Pelee eruption, its volcano museum holding a church bell deformed by the heat blast. Bridgetown splits between Georgian streets and the turtles of Carlisle Bay. Then the river takes over: the Meeting of the Waters at Santarem, the 75-person village of Boca da Valeria, and Manaus and its rubber-boom opera house a thousand miles up the Amazon.

This rewards travelers who want range over routine, a working Caribbean city like Port of Spain alongside a one-room-school village reached only by tender. Skip it if you want beach days and a tidy round trip. The Amazon ports are logistically real: Macapa has no terminal and immigration can run five hours, Boca da Valeria runs on small tips you carry ashore. The one-way shape means flying home from Manaus.

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from $9,595 / guest, double occupancy $10,100

Solo from $16,790 per guest.

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The itinerary, port by port

9 calls over 11 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.

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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 →
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Gustavia
Gustavia is the harbor capital of St Barths, a small French island that has deliberately kept large cruise ships out, so only luxury lines anchor offshore and tender in. Port guide →
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Saint-Pierre
Saint-Pierre was Martinique's cultural capital, the Paris of the Caribbean, until Mont Pelee erupted on May 8, 1902 and a pyroclastic flow killed roughly 30,000 people in minutes. Port guide →
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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 →
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Port of Spain (Trinidad)
Port of Spain is the capital of Trinidad and Tobago, a genuine working Caribbean city rather than a cruise-built one, with a multicultural street life that shows in its food, its architecture, and its…
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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 →

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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. Compare suites → · What's included →

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