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How to Travel by Tour and See the World From the beaches of Samoa to the palaces of India, these excursions include all the arrangements and offer as much handholding as you want. By Miriam Cross, From Kiplinger's Personal Finance, September 2016
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Educational tours balance learning with handson activities, so your day in Paris could start with a lecture about Impressionism and continue with a stroll through the Musée d’Orsay to view paintings. “You get a behindthescenes perspective on the place you’re visiting,” says Jim Moses, president of Road Scholar, which focuses on experiential learning.
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Besides tour operators such as Road Scholar and Perillo’s Learning Journeys, look into academic trips offered by a museum or art gallery. Members of the Art Institute of Chicago can learn about the murals and architecture of Mexico City with an expert from the museum’s education department. Or take in the temples and pyramids of Egypt with a curator of Egyptian art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Smithsonian Journeys offers more than 350 departures a year. For example, its 16day “Discovering Vietnam” starts at $4,357 for fall 2016 departures, including airfare. You’ll spend a day boating among the limestone islands of Ha Long Bay and dine at the home of a local historian. For animal and nature encounters, look for programs backed by zoos, aquariums and environmental organizations. For instance, an expert in reef life from the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago will lead 14 guests on a sixday diving expedition in Palau, a tiny archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, in February. The price starts at $3,780. Advertisement
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College alumni associations also host travel programs, and many allow nongraduates to participate if they join the association. Sometimes the tour is led by an academic. For example, an astronomy professor from the University of California, Berkeley, will lead a 10day trip to Chilean Patagonia to glimpse the solar eclipse in February (from $5,855).
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A tour is the easiest—and sometimes the only—way to delve into remote or inaccessible parts of the world, including the Andes and Machu Picchu, the Galápagos Islands, and polar regions.
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If adventure means immersing yourself in a foreign culture, consider Cuba, where “people to people” tours are one popular way to visit the country. (The U.S. still restricts travel to Cuba to certain authorized tours.) For example, National Geographic Expeditions’ nineday “Cuba: Discovering Its People and Culture” starts at $6,295 for fall 2016 departures (plus charter airfare). Cross Cultural Journeys offers some themed trips, such as “writers and artists” and “Cuban boxing,” accompanied by an expert in that field (2017 departures for the former start at $4,995, including charter airfare from Miami). Another country that is slowly opening up to U.S. visitors is Iran. Alexander+Roberts’ new 14day “Persian Moments” trip (from $7,199 for 2017 departures, including airfare from Dubai) leads you through palaces, bazaars and inhabited caves. More on Travel »
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