EXPLORA I · South America & Amazon

11 nights, Manaus to San Juan

February 17, 2027 – March 1, 2027 · 11 nights · 11 stops

Explora's name for it: A Journey from Amazon Adventures to Caribbean Charms

This is a one-way sailing that starts a thousand miles up the Amazon and ends on a Caribbean headland. You begin in Manaus, the million-person rainforest capital the rubber boom built, where the Teatro Amazonas opera house anchors a walkable historic core. From there the route works downriver through Parintins, home of the Boi-Bumba festival, and the Tapajós village of Alter do Chão, both tender calls, before clearing the river's mouth at Macapá, where the equator runs through the city. Then the Atlantic crossing to the Caribbean: the prison-island ruins of Île Royale off French Guiana, sailing-village Bequia, Georgian Bridgetown with its turtle bay, the Pitons coast off Castries, anchor-only St Barths at Gustavia, and the forts of Basseterre, finishing on the cobbles of Old San Juan, where Explora ties up in the old quarter itself.

Eleven nights for eleven stops is a working pace, with several tender ports and a real Atlantic stretch between the river and the islands. It rewards travelers who want the deep Amazon as the headline and the Caribbean as the wind-down, not beach-seekers. Note that the river beaches at Alter do Chão depend on water level, and Macapá has no cruise terminal, so immigration there can run long and a landing is not guaranteed. Confirm those calls before you commit.

Explora I is all-suite and all-oceanfront, which on a river this scenic earns its keep.

from $10,100 / guest, double occupancy

Solo from $12,625 per guest.

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Daily fare, last 49 days · low $10,100. Fares checked Jul 14, 2026.

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The itinerary, port by port

11 calls over 11 nights, Manaus to San Juan. 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 Manaus (MAO) are already bookable for these dates. I watch the fare for booked clients so you book at the right moment. When to book your flights →

Embark
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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Parintins
Parintins is a river town of about 100,000 on an island in the Amazon, famous for the Boi-Bumba folklore festival, a three-day spectacle each June built around the legend of a resurrected ox and a rivalry… Port guide →
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Alter do Chão
Alter do Chão is a small river village on the Tapajós about 30 km upstream from Santarém, where the water runs clear and blue instead of the muddy brown of the main Amazon. Port guide →
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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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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 →
6
Bequia
Bequia is the largest of the Grenadines, a seven-square-mile island in St Vincent and the Grenadines with a deep sailing and whaleboat-building heritage and a single small harbor town, Port Elizabeth, on… 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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Castries
Castries is St. 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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Basseterre
Basseterre is the Georgian-era capital of St Kitts, a small twin-island Caribbean nation where the cruise pier puts you a five-minute walk from a colonial town center built around a circular junction… Port guide →
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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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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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