19 nights, Miami to Manaus

The itinerary, port by port

14 calls over 19 nights, Miami 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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1. Embark
   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 →

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   Puerto Plata

   Puerto Plata is the Dominican Republic's north-coast amber capital, a town of faded Victorian gingerbread houses sitting under the green wall of Mount Isabel de Torres. Port guide →

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   Philipsburg

   Philipsburg is the Dutch-side capital of Sint Maarten, a narrow strip of town wedged between Great Bay and a salt pond. Port guide →

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   Terre-de-Haut (Îles des Saintes)

   Terre-de-Haut is the main inhabited island of the Saintes, a small archipelago off Guadeloupe's south coast, settled by Breton and Norman fishing families whose descendants still run the place. 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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   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 →

14. 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 →