Tours

7-day, 6-night “moderate”-level trip in ITALY’s Veneto region. Avg. 32 miles daily (6 days). Departures June 12 & Sept. 19, 2022. Highlights: In walled city of Cittadella, bike fitting, warmup ride/ride along Brenta River to medieval towns of Marostica, Bassano/in hamlet of Asolo, taste cicchetti (Venetian appetizers)/Grotte (Caves) del Caglieron in Breda/prosecco tasting in Prosecco/in Soligo River valley, wine tasting at local winery. $4,695 ppdo. Single supp., $495....

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9-day, 8-night “moderate”-level walking tour. Avg. 7-8 miles daily. Monthly departures May-October 2022. Highlights: Train from Bucharest to Bucovina for exterior frescoes at Moldoviţa Monastery/steam train along Moldoviţa River/learn about egg painting from local Hutsuls/Suceviţa Monastery/in Rodna Mountains National Park, climb to glacial lake of Stiol, Horses’ Waterfall/in Sighetu Marmaţiei, Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance. From $1,289 ppdo....

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12 days, 11 nights in eastern Australia. Departures Sept.-Nov. 2022, Feb.-May & Sept.-Nov. 2023. Highlights: In Melbourne, Flinders Street Railway Station, Shrine of Remembrance/fly to Alice Springs in the Outback, home to dingoes, red kangaroos, for Uluru/fly to Cairns for Great Barrier Reef, Kuranda Village, rainforest/fly to Sydney for harbor cruise, Sydney Opera House. $3,538-$3,758 ppdo (per dates). Cosmos (Littleton, CO; 800/276-1241, www.cosmos.com).

26-day, 25-night cultural, historian-led tour, Sept. 18-Oct. 13, 2022. Group limit, 6-12. Highlights: In Tunisia, Bardo Natural Museum in Tunis, Antonine Baths in Carthage, 3rd-century Amphitheatre of El Jem, Sousse Archaeological Museum in Sousse/in Algeria, Kasbah of Algiers, Mausoleum of Medracen in Balta/in Mauritania, medieval Berber town of Chinguetti, Neolithic rock paintings near Amogjar Pass. $10,985 ppdo. Single supp., $1,585. Flights not included. (Option of booking 1 segment or 2...

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8-day, 7-night “challenging” tour in western CANADA. Departures May-Sept. 2022 & 2023. Highlights: In Banff, learn about medicinal plants on forest walk/Lake Louise/Moraine Lake in Valley of Ten Peaks/Icefields Parkway/walk on Athabasca Glacier/Jasper National Park. From $3,675 ppdo; with extension, from $5,950 ppdo. Single supp., from $1,400. (Option to add 2-day trip through the Rockies on glass-domed train.) Insight Vacations (Boston, MA; 888/680-1241, www.insightvacations...

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Broughton Castle in Oxfordshire, England. Photo courtesy of Cotswold Walks

7-day, 6-night “easy”-level walking tour in southern ENGLAND. Departures June 19, 2022 & June 18, 2023. Avg. 2-3 miles a day. Group limit, 6-16. Highlights: In Chipping Campden, Arts-and-Crafts-style Hidcote Manor Garden/Kiftsgate Court Gardens/Upton Wold/topiary birds at Rockcliffe House/Broughton Castle/Prince Charles’ residence at Highgrove Gardens in Gloucestershire/Daglingworth House Garden. From £1,795 (near $2,422) per person, double occupancy (ppdo)....

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13 days, 12 nights in Eastern Europe, May 4-16, 2022. Group minimum, 10. Highlights: In Kraków, POLAND, Wawel Hill, Kazimierz (Jewish Quarter), Oskar Schindler’s Enamel Factory museum/Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp/Ksia˛z˙ Castle’s underground tunnels in Wałbrzych/underground city of Osówka/in GERMANY, Dresden, Bautzen memorials/Prague, CZECHIA/in AUSTRIA, Mauthausen concentration camp, Gestapo Haus Memorial in Vienna. $5,500 ppdo. Single supp., $1,200. Valor Tours (...

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9-day, 8-night “moderately challenging” guided walk in SPAIN. Departures April-October 2022. Avg. 7 miles daily (7 days). Group limit, 14. Highlights: In Bilbao, Old Quarter, pintxo tasting/walk along Costa Verde in Cantabria/in Oviedo, San Salvador Cathedral/Camino Primitivo/in Lugo, Galicia, 3rd-century Roman walls/Camino Frances/transfer to Monte do Gozo/Plaza del Obradoiro in Santiago de Compostela/Cape Finisterre. $4,499 ppdo. Active Adventures (Queenstown, New Zealand; in...

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