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On FRANCE, December ’07-January ’08. . . After 20-plus trips to Paris, we continue to find excellent, unusual, inexpensive restaurants (in terms of euros, not in terms of the present dollar exchange rate). On our last trip, the following were noteworthy. • Casa San Pablo (5 rue de Sevigne) — in the fourth arrondissement, about midway between ...

Surin’s elephant roundup

It was not easy to make the arrangements in advance to attend the Elephant Roundup in Surin, Thailand, but it was well worth the effort. The Elephant Roundup, a “rodeo” in which elephants participate in events, is held each year during the third week of November. The morning we attended the show, we took a tuk-tuk ...

Viet Nam and Cambodia with Kan Travel Service

I took my 16-year-old nephew, Xan, on a trip to Southeast Asia, his first to the area, in June ’07. For our 16-day trip, I worked with Jim Kan of Kan Travel Service (Petos­key, MI; phone 231/347-8122 or e-mail jim@akantrav.com), who in turn worked with Leneya McCullough of Exotissimo Travel (in the U.S. at 1501 N. ...

Laos — land of a million elephants

Laos — land of a million elephants
by Richard Shally, Walnut Creek, CA. Photos by Henk Ten Dam, Netherlands Laos is known as “the land of a million elephants,” but are there really a million? To find out, I took a 17-day Small Group Discovery Tour with Carpe Diem Travel, a UK-based socially responsible tour company. The January ’07 tour started and ended ...

Keeping in touch with the folks back home

Bill Steltzer of West Grove, Pennsylvania, lamented that on a May ’07 trip to France he had trouble finding public Web-access points. “Now that computer ownership is universal, the Internet cafés have vanished,” he wrote. “We used to find public libraries good spots for Internet access but not on this past trip. At the mediatheques (small-town ...

How much to tip on tours

Richard E. Smith of Long Beach, California, opened up the topic of tipping on tours (April ’07, pg. 4). Questions he asked included 1) “Should the cost of tipping be included in the tour price?,” 2) “Should there be an existing standard for tipping adhered to by most tour companies?,” 3) “Should an escrow tipping ...

Smithsonian Journeys’ Travel Adventures vs. Signature Tours

My husband, George, and I went on a 16-day Smithsonian Journeys tour, “Treasures of Angkor Wat and Vietnam,” March 19-April 3, 2007. The cost was $1,899 each, excluding airfare. Air travel from Thailand to Cambodia; Cambodia to Vietnam; within Vietnam, and from Vietnam to Hong Kong was billed separately and totaled $850 per person. Entry and ...

Far Horizons » The wats of Angkor and beyond

by Randy Keck, part 4 of 4 on Vietnam & Cambodia After my 1½ weeks in Vietnam, an evening arrival in Siem Reap, Cambodia, from Saigon provided me with the opportunity for an overnight respite before touring the remarkable remnants of the ancient Khmer civilization in and around the vicinity of Angkor Wat. I had arrived ...

How much to tip on tours

Richard E. Smith of Long Beach, California, opened up the topic of tipping on tours (April ’07, pg. 4). Questions he asked included 1) “Should the cost of tipping be included in the tour price?,” 2) “Should there be an existing standard for tipping adhered to by most tour companies?,” 3) “Should an escrow tipping ...

Far Horizons » Saigon and the Mekong

by Randy Keck (part 3 of 4 on Vietnam and Cambodia) My sojourn in southern Vietnam began on arrival in Saigon on an afternoon flight from Da Nang. During my time in Saigon I never once heard it referred to as Ho Chi Minh City by a local. Greeted by my new guide, Hoa, who speaks four ...