South America 2023 - Fabulous Travels

South America 2023 – day 15 – Monday 20/03

We wake up in Europe again, specifically Martinique a French colony pre 1946 and now an “overseas department.” We open the curtains […]

Having lost count of how many times we have visited Barbados, we don’t have any desire to travel far today. Indeed we […]

We have five consecutive port days coming up, so we’re making the most of todays sea day. Our favourite exec sous chef […]

We’re in les Îles du Salut, the Salvation Islands. Just eleven miles off the coast of French Guiana, the next country round from […]

Overnight we make two milestones – last evening we cross the equator, and then in the early hours of today we cross […]

Rain stops play – not really, we just have to keep under the sky bar’s balcony so we can still have breakfast […]

Originally we couldn’t disembark at Alter do Chão, only ship’s tours allowed off. That rule is now relaxed so we needn’t have […]

Our morning stop is just “hangin’ around the river” as we park up and only Zodiac tours are allowed out. We pass […]

Embarkation day! We plan a neighbourhood walk today as our driver is scheduled for 13:20 but the heavens open spectacularly so we […]

Obviously we’re not Amazonian newbies, and after doing the town yesterday we felt that an immersive tour was essential this visit. We’ve seen […]