18 nights, Manaus to Miami

The itinerary, port by port

16 calls over 18 nights, Manaus 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 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 →

1. 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 →

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   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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    St. John's (Antigua)

    St. Port guide →

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    Road Bay

    Road Bay is Anguilla's main harbor, sheltering the small fishing village of Sandy Ground on a wide curve of pale sand. Port guide →

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    Spanish Town (Virgin Gorda)

    Spanish Town is the small main settlement on Virgin Gorda, but the reason the day exists is a few miles south of it: The Baths, a stretch of coast where house-size granite boulders pile into grottoes,… Port guide →

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    Grand Turk

    Grand Turk is the small, low-rise capital island of the Turks and Caicos, a former salt-raking colony of donkeys, ponds, and pastel Bermudian houses that never urbanized. Port guide →

16. Disembark
    Miami

    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 →