Guayaquil to San Juan

Sail along one of the world’s manmade wonders, the Panama Canal, on this cruise departing Guayaquil. We’ll relax into life onboard with two days at sea, crossing from South to Central America at Fuerta Amador for Panama City, where we’ll spend two nights. That’s plenty of time to explore its streets, old and new, venture to its fringe of beaches and jungle – and, of course, buy a Panama hat. You could also take a closer look at the canal locks at Miraflores, through which gigantic vessels squeeze onto the canal. It’s time now for our ship to slip along the narrow channel built more than a century ago to push back nature for 52 miles to join the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. At the other end, we make for Cartegena, on the coast of Colombia, with a beauty of an old city that is recognised by UNESCO. Then we cross the Caribbean to two equally historic cities, Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic and, via the holiday playground of Punta Cana, our final port, San Juan in Puerto Rico.