Report Cards

June 2006 issue | Appears on page 0

June Report Cards

FIRST, FAST & FURIOUS ? The following is a sampling of reports received from ITN readers around the globe. ITN invites you to join our corps of reporters ? just drop a card in the mail while the travel impressions are fresh in your mind. To obtain your ITN Report Cards, send a self-addressed, stamped, business-size envelope to ITN Report Cards, 2116 28th St., Sacramento, CA 95818. You will receive eight cards.

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April 2006 issue | Appears on page 0

April Report Cards

On MALAYSIA, January-February ’06. . . • We took a tour to Borneo with smarTours (Newark, NJ; 800/337-7773 or www.smartours.com), Jan. 28-Feb. 11. We travel often, but this tour was one of the best. Malaysia is just beautiful. The people are very friendly and much fun. The flora, due to the climate, is lovely and colorful.

We went to watch orangutans in the Sepilok-Sandakan rainforest. We took longboats with little motors to longhouses, where we were invited to taste their moonshine...

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March 2006 issue | Appears on page 0

March Report Cards

FIRST, FAST & FURIOUS ? The following is a sampling of reports received from ITN readers around the globe. ITN invites you to join our corps of reporters ? just drop a card in the mail while the travel impressions are fresh in your mind. To obtain your ITN Report Cards, send a self-addressed, stamped, business-size envelope to ITN Report Cards, 2116 28th St., Sacramento, CA 95818. You will receive eight cards.

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February 2006 issue | Appears on page 0

Report Cards

FIRST, FAST & FURIOUS ? The following is a sampling of reports received from ITN readers around the globe. ITN invites you to join our corps of reporters ? just drop a card in the mail while the travel impressions are fresh in your mind. To obtain your ITN Report Cards, send a self-addressed, stamped, business-size envelope to ITN Report Cards, 2116 28th St., Sacramento, CA 95818. You will receive eight cards.

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January 2006 issue | Appears on page 0

January Report Cards

FIRST, FAST & FURIOUS ? The following is a sampling of reports received from ITN readers around the globe. ITN invites you to join our corps of reporters ? just drop a card in the mail while the travel impressions are fresh in your mind. To obtain your ITN Report Cards, send a self-addressed, stamped, business-size envelope to ITN Report Cards, 2116 28th St., Sacramento, CA 95818. You will receive eight cards.

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December 2005 issue | Appears on page 0

Report Cards

From Seoul, SOUTH KOREA, Sept. 12, ’05. . .

• Hotel Incheon Airport. I made my reservation on the Internet after reading reviews of hotels close to the airport. I had a one-night layover. The cost of the room, $89, included airport pickup and dropoff.

The room was clean, comfortable, quiet and large, with a nice bathroom. The service was friendly and helpful. I’d stay here again.

My flight was the first one allowed to land after a typhoon (winds of 150 mph). The driver...

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October 2005 issue | Appears on page 0

Report Cards for October

On SOUTH AMERICA, July ’05. . .

• We took a 14-day tour, July 3-16, ’05, with Overseas Adventure Travel (Cambridge, MA; 800/955-1925 or www.oattravel.com). The “Route of the Maya” started from Miami and covered San Salvador in El Salvador; Copan in Honduras; the colonial city of Antigua as well as Lake Atitlán and Tikal in Guatamela, and Caracol in Belize. Many of these are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Excellent hotels (only fair in Belize). Most meals included (some even with...

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September 2005 issue | Appears on page 0

Report Cards

On CHINA, May-June, ’05. . .

• Laurus Travel (3195 Granville St., Ste. 45, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6H 3K2) arranged our trip to China, May 18-June 2, with China Odyssey Tours (Guangxi, China; visit www. chinaodysseytours.com).

The price was $3,500 per person for the 18-day trip and included airfare from the U.S., four flights within China and almost all meals. We also spent four nights and five days on the Yangtze with Victoria Cruises.

We saw Beijing, the Great Wall (...

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