Cruise Port Guide
The bucket-list things to do — and the private, expert-led way to do each.
Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, and the private, small-group, or expert-led way to make it yours — your own pace, real access, none of the crowd.
Trek to the legendary viewpoint where marooned sailor Alexander Selkirk — the real Robinson Crusoe — scanned the horizon for rescue ships for over four years. One of the world's most storied hilltop panoramas, above an island barely touched by time.
Plunge into one of the most biodiverse and least-visited marine environments in the South Pacific. Cumberland Bay's crystalline waters harbour Juan Fernández fur seals, giant lobsters, and endemic reef fish found nowhere else on Earth.
Explore the island's extraordinary living laboratory — a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve — through its dedicated Natural History Center, then wander San Juan Bautista's colonial lanes with a local expert guide who has spent a lifetime here.
Discover the eerie WWI battlefield ruins of Fort Santa Bárbara and the German naval gun emplacements that loom from the clifftops — relics of the 1914 Battle of Más a Tierra, one of the most remote naval engagements in history.
Ride through a UNESCO-protected forest where 70% of plant species exist nowhere else on Earth — a slow, immersive passage through ancient ferns, endemic palms, and the hovering jewel of the Juan Fernández firecrown hummingbird.
Glide by Zodiac along the island's wild rocky coastline to the thriving Juan Fernández fur seal colony — a species hunted to near-extinction and now rebounding magnificently in one of the South Pacific's most remote sanctuaries.
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