22 nights · 10. March - 1. April 2027 · Valparaiso → Papeete (Tahiti)
This 22-night expedition aboard Silver Cloud sails from Chile across the south-eastern Pacific back to French Polynesia. From Valparaíso, the route first heads to the lonely Juan Fernandez Islands of Robinson Crusoe and Alejandro Selkirk, the real setting of Defoe's novel. Across long sea days, the voyage reaches Easter Island with its Moai statues and the Rapa Nui UNESCO World Heritage National Park, as well as Pitcairn with its Bounty descendants. The Gambier Islands with Mangareva and forays to the Marquesas or the southern Tuamotus round off the leg before the voyage ends in Papeete.
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Valparaíso sits on Chile's Pacific coast some 120 kilometres north-west of Santiago and is Chile's most important container port. Its historic old town, with still-running funicular railways, mural art and colourful hillside neighbourhoods, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
In the Juan Fernández Archipelago some 670 kilometres off the Chilean Pacific coast, this volcanic island is famous as the setting of the true story behind Daniel Defoe's novel: the Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk lived here alone from 1704 to 1709. Today it is a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.
Easter Island or Rapa Nui is a Chilean island in the south-eastern Pacific, about 3,500 kilometres from the South American mainland, and one of the most remote inhabited places on Earth. On the UNESCO World Heritage island stand nearly 900 Moai, monumental stone statues carved between the 13th and 16th centuries.
Adamstown is the only settlement on Pitcairn Island, the most remote inhabited island of the South Pacific. Its 40 or so residents descend directly from the Bounty mutineers who hid from the Royal Navy in 1790 and scuttled their ship in the bay.
In the far south-east of French Polynesia, Mangareva is the main island of the Gambier group in the South Pacific. It is ringed by an extensive coral lagoon and known above all for its pearl farming, whose black Tahitian pearls from the Gambier archipelago rank among the most sought-after gems in the entire South Seas.
Hanavave lies on the west coast of Fatu Hiva in the Marquesas Islands and is considered, with its Bay of Virgins, one of the most beautiful bays in the world. Bizarre basalt pinnacles and lush vegetation frame the anchorage.
Atuona is the main settlement of the Marquesan island of Hiva Oa in French Polynesia and the final home of the painter Paul Gauguin and the singer Jacques Brel, both buried in the Calvaire cemetery. The jagged green peaks above Tahauku Bay rank among the most dramatic island settings in the Pacific.
Just 17 kilometres from Tahiti lies Moorea in the Society Islands group of French Polynesia. Jagged volcanic peaks such as Mount Rotui and Mount Tohivea, turquoise lagoons and white coral reefs sit as close together as nowhere else in the South Pacific, making the island a classic of Pacific dream imagery.
On the main island of French Polynesia, this lively port town opens onto the lagoon. The Marché de Pape'ete with tiare blooms and vanilla, the harbourside roulottes food stalls and the pearl galleries mark it out as the gateway to the South Seas.
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