Tours

August 2009 issue

“Northern Encounter”

 8-day/7-night tour in THAILAND, Jan.-March 2010; participants will do lots of walking. (Western tour leader with group of seven or more.) Highlights: Chiang Mai’s Doi Suthep temple/Mae Hong Son local market/Pai River caves/Lisu hill tribe village. Land and internal air, from $1,570. Single supp., from $115. Travel Indochina (El Segundo, CA; 866/459-6158, www.travelindochina.com).

July 2008 issue

“Patagonian Frontiers”

18 days/16 nights includes 4-day cruise. Departures through Feb. 16, 2009.

Highlights: Touring in Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA, tango at Esquina Carlos Gardel/Paran River delta catamaran/fly to Ushuaia; explore Tierra del Fuego/embark M/V Australis, sail Beagle and Murray channels to Cape Horn National Park/Zodiac to Piloto and Nena glaciers/Magellanic penguins on Magdalena Island/disembark in Punta Arenas/three nights’ Torres del Paine National Park/fly to Puerto Montt, CHILE, in Lake District/volcanoes, forests, falls in Vicente Rosales National Park/Fruitillar’s Museum of German...

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May 2008 issue

“Glorious Greece”

10-day/8-night tour, Oct. 3-12, 2008.

Highlights: In Thessaloníki (founded 316 B.C.), Aristotle Square, Byzantine Aghia Sophia Church, mosaics, Archeological Museum of Salonika/Royal Tombs and golden artifacts from King Philip II in Vergina/archaeological site of Dion/Great Meteoron monastery in Meteora/in Delphi, follow Sacred Way to Temple of Apollo, Delphi Museum/in Olympia, Temples of Zeus and Hera/in Athens, Acropolis, Parthenon, Plaka.

$3,795 from New York. $4,195 from West Coast. Land only, $2,995.

Cross-Culture Journeys (Amherst, MA; 800/491-1148. www....

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September 2008 issue

“Persian Highlights”

19-day/18-night tour of IRAN, April 3-21 2009. Highlights: Six UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including Persopolis/National Jewels Museum, Tehran/Isfahan/Yazd/Caspian Sea villages. Land and internal air, $5,495; single supplement, $795. ElderTreks (Toronto, ON, Canada; 800/741-7956, www.eldertreks.com).

March 2008 issue

Savings For Singles

Reduced single supplements are offered on selected 2008 departures of tours and cruises with Tauck.

For example, on the 12-day/11-night “Istanbul & the Black Sea” small-ship cruise (excluding airfare, $6,390 per person, double occupancy, with a single supplement of $4,235), the single supplement for the Aug. 12 and Sept. 24 departures is $1,235.

On five departures of “A Week in Paris and Provence” (land-priced $2,990, with a single supplement of $1,001), the single supplement is reduced to $551.

Tauck World Discovery (Norwalk, CT; 800/468-2825, www. tauck.com).

December 2009 issue

China

13 days/12 nights. Highlights: in Beijing, Temple of Heaven, Forbidden City, hutong tour by pedicab/Great Wall/Xi’an Terra Cotta Warriors/Guilin limestone caves/bamboo raft ride on Li River/Shanghai. Land only, $9,580. Single supp., $2,920. Internal air, from $1,065. Imperial Tours (San Francisco, CA; 888/888-1970, www.imperialtours.net).

 

June 2009 issue

London To Brighton Antique Car Run

6-day/5-night tour, Oct. 28-Nov. 2, 2009, includes pre-1905-car event. Highlights: Royal Automobile Club events/Churchill’s war bunker, Cabinet Rooms/Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Oliver,” starring Rowan Atkinson. Land only, $2,725. Single supp., $750. Steve Austin’s Automobilia & Great Vacations (Colton, OR; 800/452-8434, www.steveaustinsgreatvacations.com).

August 2009 issue

Morocco

21 days/19 nights. Highlights: Roman settlement, museum in Chella/travel Riff Mountains to Chefchaouen, where Andalusian, Berber and Jewish cultures meet/medina of Fez/Roman ruins in Volubilis/spend night in Berber desert encampment/”Valley of the Thousand Kasbahs”/colorful Djemaa el-Fna Square in Marrakech/Casablanca. From New York, $3,250. Single supp., $340. Djoser (Paoli, PA; 877/356-7376, www.djoserusa.com).