Sailing across the world’s seas to discover what lies on distant shores is the stuff of dreams. We can peer into nearly any corner of the world, thanks to our electronic devices, but those images are a meager substitute for experiencing the world firsthand. To sail with Silversea is to see and experience people and cultures different from your own in meaningful ways — and to have the luxury of time to take it all in. To wit: the new 2026/27 Voyages collection.

Silversea’s just-released lineup of ocean voyages for 2026/27 focuses on where you want to go, of course, but it also guides you in experiencing each destination more deeply through thoughtfully curated itineraries and singular experiences.

What’s new and engaging

All of Silversea’s ocean ships now feature S.A.L.T. (Sea and Land Taste) culinary program. These onboard and land-based experiences provide a deep dive into the gastronomy and thus the culture of the world.

As always, there are new ports to explore, many accessible to Silversea guests because the fleet of smaller ships carries fewer passengers than the behemoths plying the seas and thus can journey into smaller, fascinating ports that others must bypass.

Guests will also find an increased emphasis on choices — their choices. Silversea provides more options to combine shorter sailings, including seven- to 10-day voyages in the Caribbean, including Silversea’s newest ship,  Silver Ray, sailing from Miami for the first time.

 Eight ships will connect guests with more than four dozen UNESCO Heritage Sites in more than185 destinations five-dozen-plus countries. Each voyage melds luxury, service and cultural immersion to deepen your connections to the places you visit and the people whose stories enrich and enliven the journey in unexpected ways.  Among the destinations:

Asia

By the numbers: Two ships, 17 voyages
How you’ll travel: Sister ships Silver Muse and Silver Moon, each carrying 596 guests, epitomize style and luxury in these intimate and amenity-filled voyages. Both ships offer eight dining venues, superb technology and an elegance and sophistication that raise the bar on the cruise experience.

Muse’s itineraries include Taiwan and the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand, where UNESCO sites abound, including the evocative Ha Long Bay in Vietnam and a mysterious underground river in the Philippines.

Moon also sails to Japan, where food is as much art as sustenance and cherry blossoms turn Japan itineraries into an inimitable canvas.

Special Silversea experiences in Asia

Cruise to Japan in April to experience the riotous blossoming of cherry trees across the land. Prominent in Japanese art, the fragile, pink blossoms are a living symbol that captures the elegance, artfulness and deep appreciation of beauty that lie at the heart of Japanese culture. The blooms are visible — and photographable — for just two short weeks each year.

The discovery of umami, the fifth basic taste after sweet, sour, salty and bitter, is credited to a Japanese scientist in the early 1900s. Essential to Japanese cuisine, umami is the focus of a remarkable Silversea excursion to Awaji Island, the mythical birthplace of Japan. Guests on this tour are immersed in the island’s tapestry of nature, history and gastronomy while also discovering the art of fermentation explained by a renowned chef.

In northeast Vietnam, the emerald waters and towering limestone formations of Hạ Long Bay have captivated photographers for years. You’ve no doubt seen the images, but gliding across these waters in a traditional junk allows you to appreciate the beauty of the bay in a more fulsome way.

Dramatic arches, sheer cliffs and ancient outcroppings rise from the deeply hued water. Some islets, including Stone Dog and Teapot, are named for their shapes. Ha Long, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is a setting of such surpassing beauty that it was named one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in 2011.

A UNESCO Site on the western coast of Palawan in the Philippine Archipelago offers a vastly different water experience. Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park encompasses an underground river, cathedral-like caverns featuring stunning speleothems and intact, biodiverse old-growth forests. A journey here is an adventure into the heart of one of nature’s gems above and below ground.

Opportunities:

Itineraries: 14-day Japan Long Tokyo roundtrip in April coincides with Japan’s cherry blossoms.
Itineraries: 16-day Tokyo to Singapore, including China, Japan and Korea
Itineraries: 14-day Hong Kong to Singapore, including Taiwan and the Philippines
Itineraries: 14-day Singapore to Hong Kong, including Vietnam and Thailand

Australia and New Zealand

By the numbers: One ship, seven voyages

How you’ll travel: The 596-guest Silver Moon embraces small-ship, luxury cruising, but there’s nothing “small” about its extraordinary experiential travel. The 18-day Australia and South Asia itinerary pairs Australia’s appealing coastal towns with Bali, Komodo Island and Singapore.

Special Silversea experiences in Australia and New Zealand

For wine enthusiasts, the ultimate New Zealand excursion may be Napier-S.A.L.T. Haute Hawke’s Bay. This immersive experience takes place at Craggy Range, a family-owned winery in the premium wine country of Hawke’s Bay on the North Island.

As part of a hands-on, guided tour of the estate and cellars, you’ll have the rare opportunity to taste the estate’s award-winning wines, including some from the Prestige Collection’s rare bottles of back vintage and trial wines. The tasting is complemented by light bites inspired by the bounty of the winery’s organic kitchen garden and creations by local artisans.

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, typically explored from the water, comes fully into focus a on this excursion: It’s viewed from the skies, the only way to see and comprehend the reef’s massive scale. Our Cairns: Helicopter to Great Barrier Reef Adventure shows off the reef in all its multicolored glory, a visual extravaganza that will remain with you.

Opportunities:

Itineraries: 18-day Singapore to Sydney: Australia and South Asia
Itineraries: 14-day Sydney to Auckland: Australia and New Zealand

Caribbean and Central America

By the Numbers: Five ships, 34 voyages

How you’ll travel: Silver Ray, Silversea’s newest ship and sister to Silver Nova, sails with 728 guests. Like Nova, Ray features an asymmetrical design and expansive use of glass in public spaces and suites to bring the outside in and make the natural world integral to the journey.

Silver Shadow, one of the Shadow-class ships, carries just 392 guests. It sails the Eastern and Southeastern Caribbean, calling at ports in the U.S. and British Virgin Islands along with the Lesser Antilles.

Silver Spirit takes 608 guests to Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao, which still show Dutch and Indonesian influences.

Silver Dawn, the 10th of Silversea’s ultraluxury ships, carries 596 guests and offers eight dining venues. In 2026/2027, Dawn will navigate the scenic Panama Canal.

 Silver Nova’s voyages are farther afield in South America, but three longer journeys also include Central American and Caribbean ports.

Special Silversea Experiences in the Caribbean and Central America

The Caribbean Sea is the highlight of a sunset catamaran sail from Gustavia, St. Barth, encompassing exactly what one imagines it to be: turquoise waters, a sailboat skimming the waves and a sun burning gold to orange to red as it sinks into the horizon.

For lovers of international gastronomy, Silversea’s S.A.L.T. experience in Martinique is key. You’ll learn the secrets of authentic Creole cuisine from a Michelin-starred chef as you prepare a meal, from starters to dessert, using fresh local products. Then you sit down to eat the delicious fruits of your labors against the backdrop of a magnificent view over Fort-de-France Bay, Martinique.

Can you indulge in personal pampering and do good in the world at the same time? Absolutely, if you’re on a Silversea Caribbean cruise. Case in point: An excursion with the Reef Renewal Foundation in Bonaire. You can join the foundation for an immersive “learning-and-doing” experience to educate you about the critical dangers facing coral reefs. Through classroom instruction and a guided snorkel, you’ll learn the basics of coral-reef restoration and become part of Bonaire’s efforts to preserve and restore its reefs.

Opportunities:

Itineraries: Seven- and 10-day Eastern Caribbean, San Juan RT and Bridgetown, Barbados, to San Juan Puerto Rico

Itineraries: 12-day Southern Caribbean Bridgetown to Miami, Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao.

Itineraries: 18-day Panama Canal Miami to Los Angeles

Itineraries: 11-day Miami RT and 12-day Bridgetown to Miami

French Polynesia and the South Pacific

By the numbers: One ship, 26 voyages

How you’ll travel
The 392-guest Silver Whisper is your amenity-rich base in this region. Silversea cruises here offers more overnights and about 24 more hours in port on a seven-day cruise than competitors’ similar itineraries. Silversea’s commitment to providing opportunities for a deeper connection to the people and places visited is readily apparent here. On board, you can enjoy Whisper’s stellar service, four restaurants and pampering in the spa.

Special Silversea Experiences in French Polynesia and the South Pacific

For beach lovers, there’s the exquisite Private Motu Experience in Moorea, where guests boat across Moorea Lagoon to Cook and Opunohu bays. You’ll savor the pleasures of life on a private motu (islet) and experience local music, food and artistry on one of the most beautiful beaches in the world.

How did the first Polynesians navigate by the stars? What are the stories and legends the ancient people told to explain their world? Learn it all on a Star Gazing and Legends Storytelling excursion at the edge of the magnificent Blue Lagoon as you sip wine as you sit around a beach fire under a sky brimming with stars. If magic exists, it’s here.

Opportunities

Itineraries: Seven-day Society Islands
Itineraries: 14-day Society, Tuamotu and Marquesas Islands
Itineraries: 16-day Hawaii and American West Coast, Honolulu to Vancouver, Canada.
Itineraries: 14-day French Polynesia and Hawaii

South America

By the numbers: One ship, four voyages

How you’ll travel
Silver Nova, which debuted in 2023, is one of the most spacious and environmentally friendly cruise ships ever built, thanks to groundbreaking technological solutions. It has launched a new era of sustainable cruising and innovative elements designed to create a uniquely immersive journey for the 726 passengers from start to finish.

Special Silversea Experiences in South America

It’s a world so compelling you cannot look away for fear of missing what might reveal itself in the river or along its dense, mysterious shores: pink dolphins, toucans, impossibly fragrant orchids at one moment and the pungent scent of decomposing flora the next. You might see tree trunks crowded with sleeping bats, multihued macaws, oversized spiders and scolding monkeys. Riveting yet so distant from what we know, the Amazon is as culturally rich as it is scientifically critical to the planet. The place to take it all in: MUSA, Museu de Amazônia in Manaus, Brazil, set within Adolpho Ducke Forest Reserve.

Manaus has its own surprises, perhaps most unexpectedly Teatro Amazonas, its renowned opera house built in 1897 to lure the great Enrico Caruso to sing in the middle of the Amazon. He did.

And then there’s the human-created extravaganza of color, culture, music, dance and creativity that is Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. Sail on the 10-day Rio to Buenos Aires itinerary in February to experience what is arguably the most exotic, pulsing, coveted festival in the world. Silversea gives you unparalleled access to see, hear and feel it.

Opportunities

Itineraries: 20-day Amazon: Bridgetown to Rio de Janeiro
Itineraries:10-day Rio Carnival: Rio de Janeiro to Buenos Aires
Itineraries: 16-day South America East and West: Buenos Aires to Valparaíso
Itineraries: 18-day Panama Canal: Valparaíso to Miami

The Grand South American Voyage

By the numbers:

How you’ll travel: The word “grand” hardly does the journey justice. Grand Voyage South America offers an entire continent to discover and appreciate for its UNESCO sites, biodiverse ecosystems and intriguing cultural experiences.

It’s a world of extremes, from the magnificent Garibaldi Fjord and glacier at the tip of the continent to Arica in northern Chile, where the massive dunes of rainless Atacama Desert lie, from remote Ushuaia, Argentina, southernmost city in the world, to the dazzling contemporary skyline of Panama City and its architecturally striking skyscrapers.

In between, the sailing is an evocative journey that reveals the heart and soul of the continent, often by way of intriguing small ports that larger ships bypass.