Enjoy a 1-night hotel stay in Miami.

Board the ms Prinsendam and set sail for South America.

Charming Gustavia with its yacht-lined port, offers virgin beaches, haute couture and exquisite French cuisine.

Charming Gustavia, with its yacht-lined port, offers virgin beaches, haute couture and exquisite French cuisine.

Edenic green jungles, dazzling beaches, a drive-in volcano: This lush isle has it all, plus the spellbinding twin peaks the Pitons.

Blue morpho butterflies and iridescent hummingbirds flit and zoom through this idyllic island, once a French prison.

From here you’ll voyage into the heart of the Amazon, and spend eight miraculous days cruising past dense jungles that are home to one fifth of the planet’s plant and animal species.

See rubber and Brazil nut trees; learn how the locals make tapioca, staple of the Amazon; swim in the clear blue waters of the Rio Tapajos.

Grass huts, log canoes, hunting and fishing are part of daily life in this remote village. Step ashore to purchase an alligator tooth talisman from the local shaman.

Enjoy an extended stay in Manaus, with its ornate pink and white Opera House and Italian crystal chandeliers – brought piece by piece upriver from Europe.

Steeped in tradition, Parintins celebrates its centuries-old Indian culture each June at the Boi-Bumba Festival, a lavish event that rivals Rio’s Carnivale.

Rimmed by white sand beaches and lapped by the deep blue waters of Rio Tapajos, this village boasts one of the most beautiful beaches in Brazil.

Cricket is the national sport, afternoon tea goes without saying and motorists drive on the left – however the friendly island spirit, local rum and fried flying fish are strictly Bajan.

Located on the beautiful Grenadine island of Bequia, Port Elizabeth offers a charming waterfront, natural beauty and centuries of history to explore.

Colourful floating markets, wondrous coral reefs and landscapes dotted with curiously bent divi-divi trees await on this lovely island.

Disembark after breakfast and transfer to your return flight from Miami.