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Pole to Pole Cruise Itinerary

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A year and a half as I write this to go for this cruise and here is the complete itinerary. I’ve made this post “sticky” on the Home Page so it will always be visible should anyone want to check it over time. I will link blog posts to itinerary items as an index when I’m actually on the way. First, a summary image; the arrow shows where I will be on the Volendam (click on the image for a larger view)…

Pole to Pole Cruise Itinerary
  • Flight to Fort Lauderdale
  • 25 Jan (Sat) – Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US – Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 26 Jan (Sun) – At Sea
  • 27 Jan (Mon) – At Sea
  • 28 Jan (Tue) – Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 29 Jan (Wed) – At Sea
  • 30 Jan (Thu) – Santa Marta, Colombia – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 31 Jan (Fri) – At Sea
  • 01 Feb (Sat) – Puerto Limon (San Jose), Costa Rica – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 02 Feb (Sun) – Enter Panama Canal Cristobal – Arrive: 6:00 AM
    • Cruising Panama Canal
    • Exit Panama Canal Balboa – Depart: 8:00 PM
    • Fuerte Amador, Panama (overnight) – Arrive: 9:00 PM
  • 03 Feb (Mon) – Depart: 4:00 PM
  • 04 Feb (Tue) – Crossing the Equator
  • 05 Feb (Wed) – Manta, Ecuador – Arrive: 6:00 AM Depart: 8:00 PM
  • 06 Feb (Thu) – At Sea
  • 07 Feb (Fri) – Salaverry (Trujillo), Peru – Arrive: 7:00 AM Depart: 6:00 PM
  • 08 Feb (Sat) – At Sea
  • 09 Feb (Sun) – Callao (Lima), Peru (overnight) – Arrive: 6:00 AM
  • 10 Feb (Mon) – Depart: 6:00 PM
  • 11 Feb (Tue) – General San Martin (Pisco), Peru – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 12 Feb (Wed) – At Sea
  • 13 Feb (Thu) – Arica, Chile – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 14 Feb (Fri) – At Sea
  • 15 Feb (Sat) – Antofagasta, Chile – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 16 Feb (Sun) – At Sea
  • 17 Feb (Mon) – San Antonio (Santiago), Chile – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 18 Feb (Tue) – At Sea
  • 19 Feb (Wed) – Isla Robinson Crusoe, Chile – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 20 Feb (Thu) – At Sea
  • 21 Feb (Fri) – Puerto Montt, Chile – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 22 Feb (Sat) – Castro, Isla Chiloe, Chile – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 23 Feb (Sun) – Puerto Chacabuco, Chile – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 24 Feb (Mon) – Cruising Chilean Fjords
  • 25 Feb (Tue) – Scenic cruising Amalia or Brujo Glacier & Sarmiento Channel
  • 26 Feb (Wed) – Strait of Magellan
    • Punta Arenas, Chile – Arrive: 6:00 AM Depart: 6:00 PM
    • Cockburn Channel & Beagle Channel
  • 27 Feb (Thu) – Daylight cruising Glacier Alley
    • Ushuaia, Argentina – Arrive: 2:00 PM Depart: 8:00 PM
  • 28 Feb (Fri) – Cape Horn and Drake Passage
  • 01 Mar (Sat) – At Sea
  • 02 Mar (Sun) – Antarctic Experience – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 6:00 PM
  • 03 Mar (Mon) – Antarctic Experience – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 6:00 PM
  • 04 Mar (Tue) – Antarctic Experience – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 6:00 PM
  • 05 Mar (Wed) – Antarctic Experience – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 6:00 PM
  • 06 Mar (Thu) – At Sea
  • 07 Mar (Fri) – Stanley/Falkland Is/Islas Malvinas – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 08 Mar (Sat) – At Sea
  • 09 Mar (Sun) – Puerto Madryn, Argentina – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 10 Mar (Mon) – At Sea
  • 11 Mar (Tue) – At Sea
  • 12 Mar (Wed) – Montevideo, Uruguay – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 6:00 PM
  • 13 Mar (Thu) – Buenos Aires, Argentina (overnight) – Arrive: 8:00 AM
  • 14 Mar (Fri) – Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 15 Mar (Sat) – Punta del Este, Uruguay – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 16 Mar (Sun) – At Sea
  • 17 Mar (Mon) – At Sea
  • 18 Mar (Tue) – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (overnight) – Arrive: 8:00 AM
  • 19 Mar (Wed) – Depart: 8:00 PM
  • 20 Mar (Thu) – Armacao dos Buzios, Brazil – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 2:00 PM
  • 21 Mar (Fri) – At Sea
  • 22 Mar (Sat) – Salvador da Bahia, Brazil – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 3:00 PM
  • 23 Mar (Sun) – Maceio, Brazil – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 24 Mar (Mon) – Recife, Brazil – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 11:00 PM
  • 25 Mar (Tue) – At Sea
  • 26 Mar (Wed) – Fortaleza, Brazil – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 27 Mar (Thu) – At Sea
  • 28 Mar (Fri) – Crossing the Equator
  • 29 Mar (Sat) – Barra Norte Sea, Brazil
    • Crossing the Amazon River Bar, Brazil
    • Barra Norte River, Brazil
    • Cruising the Amazon River
    • Crossing the Equator
  • 30 Mar (Sun) – Santarem, Brazil – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 31 Mar (Mon) – Boca da Valeria, Brazil – Arrive: 7:00 AM Depart: 2:00 PM
  • 01 Apr (Tue) – Manaus, Brazil (overnight) – Arrive: 8:00 AM
  • 02 Apr (Wed) – Depart: 3:00 PM
  • 03 Apr (Thu) – Parintins, Brazil – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 04 Apr (Fri) – Alter Do Chao, Brazil – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 2:00 PM
  • 05 Apr (Sat) – Cruising the Amazon River
    • Crossing the Equator
    • Barra Norte River, Brazil
    • Crossing the Amazon River Bar, Brazil
    • Barra Norte Sea, Brazil
  • 06 Apr (Sun) – At Sea
  • 07 Apr (Mon) – Devils Island, French Guiana – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 08 Apr (Tues) – At Sea
  • 09 Apr (Wed) – At Sea
  • 10 Apr (Thu) – At Sea
  • 11 Apr (Fri) – At Sea
  • 12 Apr (Sat) – Mindelo, Cape Verde – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 13 Apr (Sun) – Praia, Ilha de Santiago, Cape Verde – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 14 Apr (Mon) – At Sea
  • 15 Apr (Tue) – Banjul, Gambia – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 16 Apr (Wed) – Dakar, Senegal – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 17 Apr (Thu) – At Sea
  • 18 Apr (Fri) – At Sea
  • 19 Apr (Sat) – Arrecife, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 20 Apr (Sun) – Agadir, Morocco – Arrive: 7:00 AM Depart: 1:00 PM
  • 21 Apr (Mon) – Casablanca, Morocco – Arrive: 7:00 AM Depart: 8:00 PM
  • 22 Apr (Tue) – Cruising Strait of Gibraltar
    • Gibraltar – Arrive: 11:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 23 Apr (Wed) – At Sea
  • 24 Apr (Thu) – Barcelona, Spain (overnight & party) – Arrive: 8:00 AM
  • 25 Apr (Fri) – Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 26 Apr (Sat) – At Sea
  • 27 Apr (Sun) – Cadiz (Seville), Spain – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 6:00 PM
  • 28 Apr (Mon) – Scenic cruising Tagus River
    • Lisbon, Portugal (overnight) – Arrive: 11:00 AM
  • 29 Apr (Tue) – Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 30 Apr (Wed) – Leixoes (Porto), Portugal – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 01 May (Thu) – At Sea
  • 02 May (Fri) – Brest, France – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 03 May (Sat) – Cherbourg (Normandy), France – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 6:00 PM
  • 04 May (Sun) – Zeebrugge (Brussels), Belgium – Arrive: 10:00 AM Depart: 6:00 PM
  • 05 May (Mon) – Rotterdam, The Netherlands – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 06 May (Tue) – At Sea
  • 07 May (Wed) – South Queensferry (Edinburgh), Scotland, United Kingdom – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 6:00 PM
  • 08 May (Thu) – At Sea
  • 09 May (Fri) – Scenic cruising Eidfjord
    • Eidfjord, Norway – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 10 May (Sat) – At Sea
  • 11 May (Sun) – Trondheim, Norway – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
    • Scenic Cruising Trondheimsfjord
  • 12 May (Mon) – At Sea
  • 13 May (Tue) – Tromso, Norway – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 14 May (Wed) – Scenic Cruising North Cape
    • Honningsvag, Norway – Arrive: 10:00 AM Depart: 8:00 PM
  • 15 May (Thu) – At Sea
  • 16 May (Fri) – At Sea
  • 17 May (Sat) – Djupivogur, Iceland – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 3:00 PM
    • Scenic cruising Berufjordur
  • 18 May (Sun) – Akureyri, Iceland – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
    • Scenic cruising Eyjafjordur
  • 19 May (Mon) – Isafjordur, Iceland – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
    • Scenic Cruising Isafjardurdjur
  • 20 May (Tue) – Reykjavik, Iceland (overnight) – Arrive: 8:00 AM
  • 21 May (Wed) – Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 22 May (Thu) – At Sea
  • 23 May (Fri) – At Sea
  • 24 May (Sat) – Nanortalik, Greenland – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 25 May (Sun) – Qaqortoq, Greenland – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 26 May (Mon) – Paamiut (Frederikshab), Greenland – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 27 May (Tue) – At Sea
  • 28 May (Wed) – St Anthony, Newfoundland, Canada – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 3:00 PM
  • 29 May (Thu) – St Johns, Newfoundland, Canada – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 30 May (Fri) – Saint Pierre and Miquelon – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 5:00 PM
  • 31 May (Sat) – At Sea
  • 01 Jun (Sun) – Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada – Arrive: 7:00 AM Depart: 4:00 PM
  • 02 Jun (Mon) – Bar Harbor, Maine, US – Arrive: 8:00 AM Depart: 6:00 PM
  • 03 Jun (Tue) – Boston, Massachusetts, US – Arrive: 7:00 AM Depart: 9:00 PM
  • 04 Jun (Wed) – At Sea
  • 05 Jun (Thu) – At Sea
  • 06 Jun (Fri) – At Sea
  • 07 Jun (Sat) – Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US – Arrive: 7:00 AM
  • Flight Back to Los Angeles