Oceania articles

At 9 a.m. on March 3, ’06, the Grigoriy Mikheev sounded her horn and we celebrated crossing the Antarctic Circle with Dutch liqueur. When choosing an Antarctic trip, this had been one of my goals.
(Also see the March and January articles)
(Third of three parts on Australia, jump to part 1, p
Free air, shore excursions and much more!
From Auckland, NEW ZEALAND, April 30, ’06. . .
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I have loved to shop for jewelry most everywhere I’ve traveled! • I bought a wide, choker-type necklace made of camel bones in the medina in Tunis, Tunisia.
A British company that I like is Exodus (Grange Mills, Weir Road, London, SW12 0NE, England; phone +44 [0] 20 8675 . . . From the U.S., book with Adventure Center, 1311 63rd St., Ste.
Freestyle Holidays (Somerset Mews, 9/5 Rosebery Place, Balmain, NSW 2041, Australia; phone [61 2] 1300 799 197 or visit www. freestyle.co.au) offers many different tour packages, and we chose their 12-day “North and South Islands” tour.
New Zealand The 12-day “Spectacular New Zealand” trip from smarTours (501 Fifth Ave., Ste. 1402, New York, NY 10017; 800/337-7773 or www.smartours.net) was fantastic and my family and I highly recommend it to other travelers. We traveled March 6-17, ’06.