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December,

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Places of Power

The Grateful Traveler

   1. Sacred Sites of Jerusalem
   2. Suleymaniye Mosque
   3. Invitation to A Landmark Church
   4. Crop Circles and Sacred Places in Britain
   5. Holy Wells – An Tobhar Beannaithe
   6. Spiritual Quest
   7. Hidden Romania: The Flavour of Old Europe
   8. Spiritual Spaces of Japan's Kansai Region
   9.
The Hindu Temple - Where Man Becomes God
 10. Journey to Machu Picchu
 11. Finding Answers in Guatemala
 12. Mount Uluru

Semana Santa
The Karnak Open Air Museum
Pulguksa Temple And Sokkuram Grotto

Body Mind Spirit Journeys

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Nature's Bounty: Critters and Places

Nature's Dilemma

   1. Swimming With Whale Sharks in Ningaloo
   2. Khutzeymateen Grizzly Bear Sanctuary
   3. Kamchatka, "One of the Last Best Places"
   4. Volunteering with Elephants
   5. Serengeti National Park
   6. Red Canyons and Fall Foliage
   7. Gentle Giants: Getting up close and personal with Whale Sharks
   8. The Colours Of Rudall
   9.
UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site: Xidi and Hongcun
 10. Peru, Natural Wonder
 11. Selecting a Guided Sea Kayak Tour in Baja California Sur, Mexico
 12. Introduction to Karst Tiankeng, China

Christmas Bird Count
The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia
Keoladeo National Park

Eco Voyager

October,

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Fun Culinary

Soul of New Orleans

   1. Chilehead
   2. Warming the Heart: Chocolate Chaud Parisian style
   3. Croatia - The new foodie frontier
   4. Crossing the Culinary Rubicon
   5. Beaujolais Nouveaus - A Taste of Paradise
   6. French B&B Vacations
   7. Nutrition Once Again
   8. The art of tapenado, Granada-style
   9.
Tuscan Epicure

National Shrimp Festival
The Absinthe Museum
Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras

Good Tastes of Tuscany

September,

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Wonders of the World

How Do You Determine Value in a Tour?

   1. Spain's Most Unforgettable Place?
   2. The Oculus of the Pantheon
   3. The Louvre
   4. Remote El Mirador Eclipses Tikal!
   5. Sacred Tibet - Mount Kailash
   6. China: the Wonders
   7. Angkor What?
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Canyon de Chelly
   9. Egypt's Ancient Wonders

Grand Canyon Music Festival
Santa Fe's International Museum of Folk Art
The Great Wall of China

Ancient World Tours

August,

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Great Movie Locations

Los Angeles' Historic Theatres

   1. Marrekech
   2. Paris - A Film Lover's paradise
   3. The Reel Thing
   4. London Filmmakers Spoilt for Choice
   5. Hitchcock's London: The Great Illusion
   6. Vlad the Impaler or Dracula?
   7. Earnest Hemingway Travel Destinations
   8.
Pennsylvania Dutch Country
   9. Scene in San Francisco
 10. Movie Tourism in New Zealand
 11. Avenue of Stars

Sundance Film Festival
The Museum of the Moving Image
Ksar of Ait Benhaddou

Los Angeles Conservancy

July,

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Meet the People

The UN At 60

   1. Meet the Pueblo People -- Respectfully
   2. Paris Up Close
   3. Cultural Immersion - Putting the Dip in Diplomacy.
   4. WARNING: Meeting the people can seriously change your life
   5. Life is Uncertain, Eat Dessert First
   6. Non sono comunista!
   7. Oh The People You'll Meet...
   8.
Planeterra Peru - Giving back to the people and places we visited
   9. Going Deep in Poland
 10. A Russian Winter
 11. A Deepening Global Awareness: Volunteering Long-Term in Bolivia

 12. Discovering the Viking Past

Santa Rita Fiesta
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
The Slovakian Village of Vikolinec

InTouch Travel

June,

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Lands of Myths and Legends

Passports Required

   1. Oracle at Delphi
   2. A Case of Mythtaken Identity
   3. Highland Myths and Highland Realities
   4. The Maiden's Fair on the Hen Mountain
   5. "Sânzienele" - a celebration of Midsummer's Day
   6. Isola Comacini: Lake Como, a Curse, and Cuisine
   7.
Roots of the Silk Road
   8. Zen Adventure in Japan
   9. Vietnam, But Not As We Know It
 10. Mysteries of the Maya

 11. Machu Picchu Discovery
 12. The Archaeological Site of Maucallacta

Dragon Boat Festival
Delphi Museum
Giant's Causeway

Tibetan Expeditions

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Performing Arts festivals and events

Feathers, Banjos and Golden Slippers at the Mummers’ Museum

   1. Saharan Festival
   2. Pleasures of Bordeaux
   3. Music Festivals in Prague
   4. Getting Festive in Historic Spain
   5. Feis to Feis encounters
   6. Chicago Blues Festival, a  Great Time in the Big City
   7.
Epidaurus Festival
   8. Grand Teton Music Festival
   9. Summer Shakespeare
 10. Parranda Navidea, Santa Domingo

Edinburgh International Festival
Feathers, Banjos and Golden Slippers at the Mummers’ Museum
The Mystery Play of Elche: A Medieval Masterpiece

Music and Markets

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The View from the Ship

Distillery Destruction

   1. Before the Titanic, There Was the Vasa
   2. Route Canal - the waterways of Ireland
   3. The Tall Ships' Races 2005
   4. Cruising the Gulf of St. Lawrence
   5. Great Lakes Cruises of Discovery
   6. Cruising Antarctica
   7.
A View of Tierra del Fuego
   8. The Festival del Mar Santander and the Tall Ships Regatta
   9. Cruising Aboard a Working Ship
 10. Charter Yacht Vacations

International Festival of Canoes
The Vasa Museum
Nan Sdins, Sgaang Gwaii

University Educational Travel

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Why S.E. Asia Now?

The Great Tsunami's Upside

   1. Adventure travelers leave last, return first
   2. The Second Tsunami
   3. Thailand... the magic continues...
   4. Is It Safe To Travel In Asia Now?
   5. A little bit of Maldives in your life
   6. Back to the Beaches
   7.
Myanmar's Perfections
   8. The painted havelis of Rajasthan
   9. India's Beautiful Beaches
 10. Hell on wheels ... it's heaven

Songkran: From Merit Making to Water Fights
LA County Museum of Art
The Sacred City of KANDY
A Touch of Class Tours

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Warm Winter Getaways

In the Wake of the Great Tsunami

   1. Rising from the Ashes - We will Rebuild
   2. Fun and Funky Key West
   3. Hawaiian Arts Season 2005
   4. Bahia, Brazil: Land of Happiness
   5. Paradise is a string of atolls
   6. Peru's Floating Lake People: A Dying World
   7.
Saadani National Park, a Swahili Coast Secret
   8. Santo Domingo
   9. A Soupcon of Sicily
 10. Archipelago and Islands of Chile
 11. Darwinism's Incubator: Galapagos Islands
 12. Finding Tahiti's "Hidden Paradise" Islands
 13. Impressions of Tasmania

Hawaii Arts Season
Morse Museum of American Art, Winter Park, FL
Queretaro, Mexico
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
Adventure Lanka Tours

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Tour Host Review - Potpourri

Travel in 2005: Our annual prognostications

   1. Dubrovnik: Hidden Gem of the Adriatic
   2. The Flower Castle at Monemvassia
   3. Living the Tuscan Dream
   4. An elephant mother’s ultimate dilemma
   5. South Africa's birding paradise
   6. Torres del Paine - Chile’s friendly mountain wilderness
   7.
Guatemala's Volcanic Splendor
   8. Holywell Recreation Park - Jamaica’s mountain rainforest
   9. Beppu, Japan’s hot springs capital
 10. Chiang Rai: gates to Thailand’s Golden Triangle
 11. Winding through the Wachau
 12. New Zealand's cycling heaven

High Sierra Music Festival
The Skyscraper Museum, New York City
Ajanta and Ellora - India's handcrafted caves
Uluru National Park, Australia
Intrepid travel