Seabourn 2021 - 2022

AMAZON EXPEDITIONS 76 DAYS 0-1 | MANAUS The largest city on the Amazon and the main port for trade between the vast Amazon Basin and the outside world, Manaus is actually located on the Rio Negro, a few miles from where it meets the Rio Solimões to form the Amazon at the famous “Meeting of the Waters,” where the dark-stained waters of the Negro flow alongside the creamy brown Solimões without mixing. Here you will embark Seabourn Venture to remain overnight. Markets along the waterfront hold exotic fish, fruits and other products of the forests. The impressive Teatro Amazonas Italian Renaissance Opera House was constructed of imported materials. The theater hosted world-famous artists at the height of the rubber boom, when the “rubber barons” sent their linens across the Atlantic to Paris for laundering. DAYS 2-9 | THE AMAZON EXPERIENCE During your expedition in the Amazon River we will explore varying environments shaped and differentiated by the river itself. These can be divided into three major regions: Flooded Forests and Blackwater Tributaries – Manaus to Rio Jutaí. The Amazon here is wide, slow and winding, with large areas of seasonally flooded igapó forest flooded by blackwater tributaries and várzea forest with sediments from the Andes carrying floating vegetation and vital nutrients to support an amazing diversity of plant and animal life along the river and floodplains. This region is almost like a seacoast, best explored by Zodiac ® , and we will do that on a daily basis, often with multiple departures. People here exploit the forest’s natural products and engage in agricultural and extractive activities in a place rarely seen by the outside world. Exploring this incredible environment with your Expedition Team experts will immerse and help you understand and appreciate it. The Frontier Amazon – Rio Jutaí to Leticia, Colombia. The banks are closer here and the currents stronger. Our ship passes closer to the forest and we see less frequent evidence of human population. In this more intimate relation to the forest, we will again use the Zodiacs ® to probe the shorelines and gain insights from your Expedition Team about the daily activities of the humans and the wildlife living here. The river itself forms the triple borders of Brazil, Colombia and Peru. Isolated, traditional caboclo communities see few visitors. Picturesque, friendly Leticia is a frontier town, hundreds of miles from the nearest Colombian road. The stilt and floating houses along its waterfront reveal how closely its peoples’ lives are linked to the river. The Peruvian Amazon – Leticia to Iquitos, Peru. The Peruvian Amazon is enveloped in an ocean of jungle where the seasons are marked only by the changing river levels and the amount of rainfall during the days. Here we will encounter indigenous populations more commonly along the banks of the river, and discover age-old human traditions surviving unaltered by the outside world. Many unexpected, unforgettable adventures await us as we board our Zodiacs ® to explore some of the most remote regions and exotic cultures of the mighty Amazon. DAY 10 | IQUITOS Iquitos , Peru is a fascinating place. In the midst of the jungle, we find a major seaport nearly 2,000 miles (3,200 km) from the sea, the largest city on earth that cannot be reached by road. Here you will disembark Seabourn Venture to begin your homeward journey, with myriad vivid and indelible memories of the Amazon River and the amazing forests, fascinating creatures and the remarkable people along its banks. *APR 8, 2022 itinerary operates in reverse order, and overnights in Iquitos in lieu of an overnight in Manus. THE HEART OF THE AMAZON 10 DAYS | MANAUS TO IQUITOS | MAR 29, 2022 V223 ; APR 8, 2022* V226 | SEABOURN VENTURE HIGHLIGHT: IQUITOS, PERU. Surrounded by an ocean of primeval forest, we discover a major commercial seaport thousands of miles from the sea. Near the eastern slopes of the Andes, Iquitos is the largest city on earth that cannot be reached by road. Outside its limits are timeless human communities surviving almost untouched by modern civilization, and a rich, diverse and vital ecosystem waiting to be explored, appreciated and understood. MANAUS IQUITOS Amazon River Pevas Leticia Rio Jutai Cuxiu Muni Badajos Note: routing/ activity dependent on river/tidal conditions. IQUITOS, PERU