Embarkation will be from the ports of Civitavecchia, Genoa, Marseille and Barcelona on January 4, 5, 6 and 7, respectively.
Mediterranean, Middle East, Africa
The vessel first calls at destinations in the Mediterranean Sea such as France, Spain, Italy, Malta, Cyprus, offering an overnight in Haifa, Israel and a day visit to Cairo from Port Said/Alexandria, Egypt.
MSC Poesia will then journey through the Suez Canal to the Red Sea for calls in Egypt for Luxor and Jordan to visit Petra.
After an overnight stay in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the ship heads south to Zanzibar, the Seychelles and Mauritius before heading to mainland Africa for a tour of South Africa calling Durban and Port Elizabeth with an overnight stay in Cape Town.
The Americas and Europe
The ship will cross the South Atlantic Ocean to South America and sail up the Amazon River in Brazil as far as Manaus, calling Salvador de Bahia and Belém with an overnight stop in Rio de Janeiro.
It will then set sail for the Caribbean, arriving in Saint Lucia, Barbados, Martinique, Dominican Republic and the Bahamas, as well as calling at MSC Cruises’ private island, Ocean Cay, en-route to North America.
Passengers will stay overnight in Miami and New York City before MSC Poesia sails north to Nova Scotia and Quebec in Canada. It will then sail east for calls in Greenland and Iceland before returning to mainland Europe.
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