Cruise Line: Regent Seven Seas Cruises Ship: Seven Seas Navigator Region: Caribbean Departs: Jan 09, 2009 From: Ft Lauderdale (Pt Everglades)

10 Nights from 3750.00 USD

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Description

10 Night Cruise sailing from Ft Lauderdale roundtrip aboard Navigator. 10 Night Cruise sailing from Ft Lauderdale roundtrip aboard Navigator.

In the six-star tradition of Regent Seven Seas Cruises, the Seven Seas Navigator is destined for distinction. Occupying the uppermost niche in cruising, she offers her 490 guests an unusual level of luxury and some of the highest space and service ratios at sea. From her all-suite, all-ocean-view accommodations with their luxurious marble baths to her signature cuisine to her superbly attentive staff, she has few equals.

Highlights of your cruise include:

Ft Lauderdale, Florida
Ft. Lauderdale sits in the middle of the burgeoning megalopolis known as South Florida, which hugs the Atlantic coast from Miami in the south (a 35-minute car ride away) to Palm Beach in the north. It is the principal city in huge Broward County, two-thirds of which is swampland in the Everglades. What isn¿t swampy includes 23 miles of beaches and 28 municipalities.

Cozumel
Cozumel is the largest inhabited island in Mexico, which lies only 11 miles off the mainland. On the isalnd there is only one town called San Miguel, which is located on the West Coast. Luxury hotels, shops and restaurants are situated on the beaches of the Caribbean Sea. The rest of this immense island is filled with natural beauty. Explore the endless stretches of natural, virgin beaches. On the East Coast, the beaches are known for large breaking surf and immense limestone rock formations. On the West side enjoy calmer waters, this area is popular for snorkeling and diving as the sea is crystal clear and teams with the most striking coral formations and tropical fish found in the Caribbean.

Belize City
Throughout the country, especially in the central and southernmost forests are many ruins of the Classic Maya Period that flourished here and in the neighboring Guatemala from the 4th to the 9th century. The first settlers were English with their black slaves from Jamaica who cam about 1640 to cut log wood, then the source of textile dyes. The British Government made no claim to the territory but tried to secure the protection of the wood-cutters by treaties with Spain. Even after 1798, when a strong Spanish force was decisively beaten off at St. George¿s Caye, the British Government still failed to claim the territory, though the settlers maintained that it had now become British by conquest. Belize became independent on September 21, 1981, following a United Nations declaration to the effect. Guatemala refused to recognize the independent state, but in 1986, President Cerezo of Guatemala announced an intention to drop his country¿s claim to Belize. A British military force was maintained in Belize from independence until 1993, when the British government announced that the defense of Belize would be handed over to the government on January 1, 1994.

Key West, FL
This flower-scented little city/island is a haven for famous writers, former hippies, struggling artists, sun seekers, and tourists from all over the world. They like the relaxed pace, the storybook architecture, the carnival-like street life, and they are drawn to Mallory Square every evening to applaud the sunset. The island just 2 miles wide by 4 miles long, is one of about a thousand coral islets in an archipelago that stretches 126 miles southward from Miami. It is linked to the mainland by the Overseas Highway, which ribbons its way across 34 of the islands with over 42 bridges, the largest one spanning 7 miles. The U.S. government acquired Key West from Spain in the early 1800's. During those days, most of the isolated islanders made their living as wreckers and pirates, diving for the booty from ships that wrecked on the coral reefs offshore. Business waned in the mid-1800's: There were fewer wrecks after the government built lighthouses. So the economy turned to shrimping, fishing, sponging and cigar making with the help of Cuban dissidents who had fled their island and Spanish rule. During the Spanish-American War and World War I, major military installations were built on the island. In the 1920's much of the local economic base began to fade as the military left and the cigar industry moved northward to Tampa.

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