A glamorous luxury cruise including: Peru, Chile, Argentina, Falkland Islands and Uruguay

From there we’ll continue to Plaza San Martin with its impressive colonial architecture. After the tour we’ll return to the hotel to prepare for Shabbat, which we’ll enjoy with the warm and hospitable Jewish community of Lima.

From there we’ll continue to the Larco Museum which houses numerous collections of Inca and pre-colonial gold, along with ancient jewelry, masks, ceramics, and various antiquities from Peru’s varied cultures and ethnicities.

We’ll arrive to amazing panoramas of the city and its environs, and we’ll immediately depart down to the Urubamba River Valley which was the Sacred Valley of the Inca Kingdom. We’ll visit the Awana Cancha Alpaca & Llama Farm, and enjoy the manifold items on sale at the colorful Indian Market in Pisac. We’ll marvel at the amazing scenery as travel through the valley.

This “Lost City: was abandoned by the Inca and remained undiscovered until it was revealed in 1911 by the explorer Hiram Bingham. After our visit we’ll spend some time in the market town of Aguas Calientes which lies at the foot of Machu Picchu, in the midst of some amazing jungle and rain forest.

We’ll begin our visit to Cusco with a walking tour of the city center, among the charming town squares, the impressive palaces, and the beautiful and unique architecture of the city. After supper we’ll so out to a folklore show about life in the Andes Mountains.

We set sail in the afternoon from Santiago Harbor as we begin our cruise voyage around Soputh Amrica. We’ll check into our staterooms and prepare for Shabbat.

We will continue to the summit of Malfoy, one of the city’s hills and enjoy panoramic views of the harbor, Tango Island, and the little Reloncavi Bay. We’ll continue to visit Puerto Varas, which lies on the banks of Lake Llanquihue at the foot of Osorno Volcano. We’ll also pay a visit to Petrohue Falls.

The roadway traverses the southern part of Chile, from the city of Puerto Mont in the north to the town of Villa O’Higgins in the south, and passes along hanging glaciers, massive forests, towns and villages, fjords and lagoons. On our travels, we’ll visit some of the villages and be amazed by the beauty of nature in this part of the world.

Also, we’ll be able to marvel at the views from the ship as we sail through the Sarmiento Canal named after the Spanish Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa who mapped the area from 1579-80. We’ll continue and cruise near the Amelia Glacier.

We’ll anchor in Punta Arenas, the capital of Chilean Patagonia. This is the southernmost city in Chile, located on the shores of the Magellan Strait, at an equal distance from both the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. We’ll tour downtown and see Magellan’s statue in the Central Square. We’ll also visit the Saliciano Museum, which exhibits a wide variety of fields: art, history, ethnology, fauna and flora in the region, the history of the missionary activities in the area and more. After the visit we’ll will return to the ship. We’ll then sail through the Beagle Canal, a strait in the Tierra del Fuego archipelago on the southern tip of South America. The strait separates the Big Island in the archipelago, also called Tierra del Fuego “Land of Fire” and the Picton, Navarino, Gordon, O’Brien, Londonderry and Stewart islands. In the eastern part, the strait serves as a natural boundary between Argentina to the north and Chile (to the south, and to the west it is wholly within Chile’s sovereignty.) We will also cross the Cockburn Canal and pass near the Eli glacier.

According to the Argentines, Ushuaia is the capital of the province of Tierra del Fuego, the “Land of Fire”, the South Atlantic Islands and also Antarctica.

On Shabbat after the services and meals we’ll enjoy a shiur or interesting lecture. We can also take advantage of the ship’s many outstanding facilities, or simply relax on deck with a drink.

Driving is on the left side of the road and the official language here is English. The islands became famous around the world due to unnecessary war initiated by Argentina against England. By the English, this faraway place is called the Falkland Islands. Some Argentines continue to believe that they are their own and they call them “Islas Malvinas”. The islands lie between South America and Antarctica. We will visit Stanley, the southernmost city on earth, the capital of the Falkland Islands.

We’ll be able to enjoy lectures, movies, shows and entertainment in the ships numerous theaters and entertainment centers.

We will stroll about the historic heart of the Old City, Ciudad Vieha. We will see the magnificent Independence Square in the center of Montevideo. In it, stands the mausoleum of Jose Artigas built in 1930 and housing the remains of the Uruguayan national hero. The square is on the border between the old city and the new city. We will stroll through the Port Market, Mercado del Puerto with its collection of shops, booths, craftspeople, and street artists. We will also pass through the city’s interesting sites: Solis Theater, Royal Palace, Park Prado, Government House, the Carrasco Neighborhood, Soccer Stadium, Holocaust Memorial and more.

We’ll visit the famous Palermo neighborhood, the garden city of Buenos Aires. We’ll visit the artsy quarter of La Boca, which was the original neighborhood where immigrants from Italy first lived. From there we’ll continue to view the magnificent Ricoleta cemetery. Finally, we’ll arrive to the Florida pedestrian mall, home to the world renowned Galeria Pacifico shopping mall. In the evening there is an option to go out to a Tango Show (payment required).

We’ll drive along its wide boulevards, decorated with trees and flowers and pass by the Presidential Palace, the Congress, the impressive synagogues, the Opera House, the Supreme Court on the façade of which are engraved the Ten Commandments, the football stadium and the Jewish quarter. We’ll return to the hotel to prepare for Shabbat.