Tours

September 2020 issue | Appears on page 26

ULTIMATE KENYA SAFARI
Two young male elephants enjoying play-fighting in Samburu National Reserve, Kenya. Photo by Michele Burgess

17-day, 15-night photography tour, June 6-22, 2021. Luxury tented camps. Highlights: Near Nairobi, elephant sanctuary at Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, Giraffe Centre, Karen Blixen Museum/21 game drives, 3 per vehicle, in Maasai Mara (renowned for big cats) and Samburu game reserves and Ol Pejeta Conservancy (host to the Big Five). From New York, $9,360 ppdo; from Los Angeles, $9,660 ppdo. Single supp., $1,500. In Focus with Michele Burgess (Huntington Beach, CA; 714/536-6104, www.infocustravel....

CONTINUE READING »
September 2020 issue | Appears on page 26

BIRDING & HIKING

14-day, 13-night nature trek in the Caribbean. Departures ongoing in 2021 except January. Highlights: In ANTIGUA, walk through steep bush, forest to old plantation buildings, identify plants with guide, Wallings Nature Reserve/fly to ST. LUCIA, home to parrots, warblers/fly to MONTSERRAT for Montserrat Volcano Observatory, ghost town of Portsmouth. $3,995 ppdo. Hike Caribbean (London, England, UK; phone +44 333 987 4694, hikecaribbean.com).

September 2020 issue | Appears on page 26

PERUVIAN AMAZON & MACHU PICCHU EXPLORATION

15 days, 14 nights. Monthly departures in January, March-July & September-December 2021. Highlights: In Lima, tour Miraflores and Barranco districts, visit 16th-century Casa de Aliaga/fly to Iquitos for skiff ride on Marañón River, home to over 60 bird species, pink dolphins/meet with villagers/walk in jungle along Samiria River/skiff tour of Pacaya River, home to capuchin monkeys, turtles/Amazon Manatee Rescue Center near Nauta/Machu Picchu/Cusco. $15,499 ppdo. Uniworld Boutique River...

CONTINUE READING »
August 2020 issue | Appears on page 27

WILDERNESS WALKING: THE ORKNEY ISLANDS

7-day, 6-night “moderately easy” trek in northern SCOTLAND. Departures Aug. 6 & 22, 2021. Group limit, 8. Highlights: Cross Pentland Firth from Inverness to Orkney/ferry to Rousay Island for walks to Midhowe Broch (fortified tower), Faraclett Head/Mull Head/Old Man of Hoy sea stack/Neolithic village of Skara Brae/Ring of Brodgar. From £1,795 (near $2,238) per person, double occupancy (ppdo). Single supp., £435 ($542). Wilderness Scotland (Aviemore, Highland,...

CONTINUE READING »
August 2020 issue | Appears on page 27

FRENCH-SPANISH BASQUE

13 days, 12 nights, Sept. 19-Oct. 1, 2021. Highlights: Bayonne, FRANCE, for Musée Basque/in San Sebastián, SPAIN, Plaza de la Constitución/boat ride on Bay of La Concha/in Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum/in Oñati, overnight in 13th-century tower/Pamplona/ferry from Hondarribia back to France/Château d’Abbadia in the French Pyrénées/shop for riverside picnic in St. Jean-Pied-de-Port/Bay of Biscay boat ride. $4,295 ppdo. Single supp., $550. Intimate France (Oakland, CA; 800/676-1247, www....

CONTINUE READING »
August 2020 issue | Appears on page 27

LUSATIA: GERMANY’S EASTERN BORDERLANDS
Historic Reichenturm tower in Bautzen, Saxony, can be seen in eastern Germany with Martin Randall Travel. Photo by Constanze Sarfert (Photodesign Amador)

7-day, 6-night art historian-led tour focusing on architecture and gardens, Sept. 13-19, 2021. Highlights: Fly London-Berlin, drive to Frankfurt (Oder) and Eisenhüttenstadt/medieval Cistercian monastery in Branitz/Prince Pückler-Muskau’s 19th-century landscaped garden/see Baroque and Renaissance architecture in Gorlitz/in Zittau, 15th-century Lenten altar cloth at Church of Holy Cross. From £2,290 ($2,855) ppdo. Single supp., £140 ($175). Martin Randall Travel (based in...

CONTINUE READING »
August 2020 issue | Appears on page 27

POLAND: TURBULENT HISTORY OF WWII

12 days, 11 nights, Aug. 23-Sept. 3, 2021. Highlights: In Warsaw, Old Town, Museum of Polish History/in Lublin, Majdanek concentration camp/in Kraków, 16th-century Flemish tapestries in Wawel Royal Castle, Oskar Schindler’s Enamel Factory museums/sites of Ausch witz, Birkenau/Black Madonna of Częstochowa/in Gdansk, Museum of the Second World War/Wolf’s Lair at Kętrzyn/symbolic cemetery at Treblinka. $3,600 ppdo. Single supp., $800. Valor Tours (Sausalito, CA; 800/842-4504, www....

CONTINUE READING »
August 2020 issue | Appears on page 27

EXPLORING CRETE: ARCHAEOLOGY, NATURE & FOOD

13 days, 12 nights. Departures April 14 & May 6, 2021. Group limit, 18. Highlights: Drive from Heraklion to Malia for Minoan Palace ruins/see white-sailed windmills on Lasithi Plateau/Byzantine frescoes at Church of Panagia Kera/Minoan palaces of Zakros, Knossos/wine tasting in Peza region/boat ride to ancient Lissos/Monastery of Agia Triada on Akrotiri Peninsula/ancient Eleutherna. £3,935 (near $4,906) ppdo. Single supp., £580 ($723). Peter Sommer Travels (Monmouth, Wales,...

CONTINUE READING »