Tours

December 2012 issue

Taste Of Wales & Ireland

12 days / 11 nights. Highlights: From Dublin, IRELAND, tour Wicklow Mountains / ferry to Holyhead, WALES / medieval Conwy / Caernarfon / ride Snowdonia Railway / Harlech Castle / ghost walk in Tenby / St. David’s / Waterford, Ireland / Killarney / Bunratty Castle. Land, from $2,046. Single supp., $748. CIE Tours Int’l. (Morristown, NJ; 800 / 243-8687).

March 2013 issue

“Nepal, Kingdom Of The Majestic Mountain”

11 days / 9 nights, Dec. 9-19, 2013. Highlights: Kathmandu / Patan City of Fine Arts / Pokhara in the Himalayan foothills / game drives in Chitwan National Park, home to leopards, crocodiles, sloths, peacocks, eagles. Land, £1,495 (near $2,348). Single supp., £275 ($432). Patrick Syder Travel (Zenobia House, 23 Bowmans Close, Steyning, West Sussex, BN44 3SR, U.K.; phone +44 [0] 1903 879737).

October 2013 issue

Ryder Cup In Scotland

7-day/6-night tour, Sept. 23-28, 2014, includes passes to Ryder Cup golf tournament. Highlights: Explore Edinburgh/watch final practice rounds at Gleneagles/Ryder Cup Opening Ceremony/Fourball and Foursomes matches/Closing Ceremony/Glasgow/Loch Lomond/Oban/play golf at Musselburgh, “oldest golf course in the world.” Land, from $5,450. Kensington Tours (Wilmington, DE; 888/903-2001). 

June 2013 issue

“Ghosts Of Cambodia”

9 days/8 nights. Highlights: Sunrise at Angkor Wat/Banteay Srei temple/Siem Reap/boat on Tonle Sap Lake/Mechrey ecotourism community/Angkor Thom/pre-Angkor-era temples/Phnom Penh/Toul Sleng prison museum/Killing Fields Museum/limestone caves at Kampong Trach/in Kep, jungle trek through Bokor National Park. Land, from $2,555. Horizon & Co. (Wilmington, DE; 800/387-2977).

November 2012 issue

Galápagos

14 days / 13 nights or 18 days / 17 nights. Highlights: From Quito, ECUADOR, fly to Baltra Island and board the Tip Top IV / blue-footed boobies, frigate birds on North Seymour / snorkel, kayak in Darwin Bay off Tower Island / fur seals on Santiago / marine iguanas on Isabela / Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz / albatross, Nazca boobies on Española. Land / cruise, $5,500-$6,300. Single supp. (3-night hotel portion only), $300. Galápagos Travel (Aptos, CA; 800 / 969-9014).

April 2013 issue

“Turkey: A Photographic Expedition”

14-day/12-night tour with National Geographic photographer Steve Winter, Oct. 1-14, 2013. Highlights: In Istanbul, Old City, Hagia Sophia, Sirkeci quarter, Süleymaniye Mosque/walled city of Diyarbakır/stone carvings on houses in Midyat/beehive houses in Harran/Ionian city of Priene/Temple of Didyma/Ephesus/Selçuk Saturday market. Land, $6,795. Single supp., $675. Turkish Journeys (Medford, MA; 781/391-6183).

January 2013 issue

Pearls Of The Aegean

8-day / 6-night tour of TURKEY. Highlights: Selçuk Museum in Kuşadası / Greek ruins in Ephesus / Pergamum, capital of the Attalid Kingdom / Troy / in Istanbul, Blue Mosque, Topkapi Palace, Hagia Sophia. From New York, from $1,799. Troy Tours (Los Angeles, CA; 800 / 748-6878).

February 2013 issue

Ghost Tour In England

5 days/4 nights. Highlights: 900 years of bloody history at the Tower of London/Thames cruise/London ghost walk/13th-century Lacock village/Fox Talbot Museum/Cardiff Castle, WALES, reputedly haunted by Marquess of Bute/Stratford-upon-Avon/“Ghosts Alive” show at Warwick Castle. Land, £740 (near $1,187) for 3-star hotels or £610 with bed-and-breakfasts. Tours of Excellence (19 Hillcrest Rd., Little Sutton, Cheshire, England CH66 4PY; phone 0151 339 0640).