Tours

August 2011 issue

Haciendas Of Ecuador

Nine-day/eight-night tour with stays in historic haciendas (working farms and ranches). Highlights: Quito city tour/artisan villages of Calderon and Cotocachi/visit a condor sanctuary/Otavalo market/Papallacta Hot Springs/Cayambe-Coca Ecological Reserve for dwarf red deer, foxes, tapirs, spectacled bears/Avenue of Volcanoes to Volcan Cotopaxi/Saquisilí market/Luna Runtun spa & resort at Volcan Tungurahua, where hiking, horseback riding, rafting and biking are included. Land, from $3,685. Single supp., $1,000.

Wildland Adventures (Seattle, WA; 800/345-4453).

April 2010 issue

“Bolivia, The Empire Of The Sun”

Eight days/six nights. Highlights: Ruins of Tiahuanco/Lake Titicaca/hydrofoil excursion to Copacabana/meet a shaman who reads fortunes in coca leaves/city tour of La Paz, Open Air Museum. From Miami, from $2,392. Single supp., from $558.

Tara Tours (Miami, FL; 800/327-0080).

July 2011 issue

“Hill Tribes Of India”

18 days/17 nights; Nov. 21-Dec. 8, 2011. Highlights: Visit tribal villages in Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh/tea estates in Assam/wildlife viewing near Burma boader/Nagaland Hornbill Festival. Land, $5, 483. Single supp., $1,266.

Cross Cultural Adventures (Arlington, VA; 703/237-0100).

January 2010 issue

Central Peru

19 days/18 nights, May 3-21, 2010. Highlights: Lima/La Punta/palace of Puruchuco/Tupac Amaru, site of mummy find/Inca ruins of Vilcashuamán/narrow-gauge train trip to Huancayo/dugout canoe up Amazon to Campa Indian territory/walk a section of the “Inca Road.” $3,700 from Los Angeles. Single supp., $500.

Lifebound Tours (Fallbrook, CA; 760/742-3455).

August 2014 issue

“Knitting New Year’s Cruise On The Danube”

On a 161-passenger boat, 8-day, 7-night cruise-tour from Vilshofen, GERMANY, to Budapest, HUNGARY, Dec. 27, 2014-Jan. 3, 2015. Highlights: Learn of new knitting techniques and patterns with textile expert and author Barry Klein. Create items to wear at New Year’s Eve on-board celebration in Vienna, AUSTRIA. In Melk, Benedictine abbey tour/city tours in Vienna and Budapest. From $2,799 per person, double occupancy. Optional three nights in Prague, $750.

AmaWaterways (Calabasas, CA; 800/626-0126).

February 2010 issue

Tanzania Family Safari

13 days/11 nights. Highlights: in Arusha National Park, colobus monkeys, 575 bird species/mangrove swamps in Tarangire National Park/meet schoolchildren/Ngorongoro Crater/leopards, lions, cheetahs, migrating wildebeest in Serengeti National Park. Land only, from $4,990 adult or $4,390 child under 12. Single supp., from $590.

Thomson Family Adventures (Watertown, MA; 800/262-6255).

May 2011 issue

“Paris For Art Lovers”

Seven days/six nights, Oct. 17-24, 2011. Highlights: “Mona Lisa” and “Venus de Milo” at the Louvre/Musée Rodin/Impressionists at Musée d’Orsay/Montemarte/Opéra Garnier, “home of the Phantom.” Land, $2,295, includes a Paris Museum Pass. Single supp., $350.

La Belle France (Fresno, CA; 559/229-4866).

April 2014 issue

“Adventure In Mongolia”

16 days, 15 nights, June 18-July 3 & Aug. 27-Sept. 11, 2014. Highlights: In Ulaanbaatar, 19th-century Gandan Monastery, dinosaur skeletons and eggs at Natural History Museum/in Gobi Desert, Eagle Valley/desert ger camps/at Khongoryn Els, ride Bactrian camels to 2,600-foot-high “singing” sand dunes/in Bayanzag, Flaming Cliffs/Khögnö Khan Uul Nature Reserve/ruins of ancient Mongol capital of Karakorum/Erdene Zuu, possibly the country’s oldest-surviving Buddhist monastery. Land, $5,495-$5,895 per person, double. Single, $6,290-$6,690.

Smithsonian Journeys (Washington, DC; 855/330-...

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