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Myanmar & Vietnam with Ceylon Express International

Tours in Review, January 2008 issue
Varini de Silva of Ceylon Express International (9542 Dumbreck Dr., Huntington Beach, CA 92646; 800/423-9566, www.ceylonexpress.com) created an independent month-long trip to Asia for my wife, Barbara, and me. Land and internal air for the Feb. 19-March 19, 2007, trip cost $13,500. Ceylon Express, using ground operators Rainbow Travel (Thimphu, Bhutan) in Bhutan and Indochina Services ...

Keeping in touch with the folks back home

Travelers' Intercom, December 2007 issue
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 ...

Smithsonian Journeys’ Travel Adventures vs. Signature Tours

Travelers' Intercom, November 2007 issue
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 » Saigon and the Mekong

Columns, September 2007 issue
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 ...

Far Horizons » Hue and Hoi An

Columns, August 2007 issue
(2 of 4 on Vietnam & Cambodia) The second stop in my March 2007 journey in Vietnam and Cambodia, the land portion of which was hosted by SITA World Tours, focused on Hue and Hoi An in central Vietnam, a region that many Vietnamese feel is the historic cultural heartland of the now-thriving country. Many of Vietnam’s ...

Looking for luxury in Vietnam, Thailand, & Bali

Features, July 2007 issue
Looking for luxury in Vietnam, Thailand, & Bali
by Bill Kizorek, Lisle, IL International travel: the phrase conjures up visions of adventure and exploration. There are so many ways to go about it. When I am by myself, I don’t care if I sleep in a tent in Botswana with hippos grunting through the canvas or eat breakfast at a camp table across from ...

Language semi-immersion

Travelers' Intercom, April 2007 issue
Here’s one way to practice a foreign language. If you live near a large ethnic population, find out where they shop and pay those stores a visit. Check the Yellow Pages under “Super Stores & Supermarkets,” “Gourmet Food Shops and Specialties” and “Mexican & Latin American Food Products.” When I was in Buenos Aires, I practiced my ...

Reviewers’ Corner

Columns, January 2007 issue
Here are a couple of the latest travel-book reviews written by ITN readers. “Panama” by Sarah Woods (2005, Bradt Travel Guides/Globe Pequot Press, Inc. ISBN 184162117X — 340 pp., $21.95). There’s more to Panama than the canal, and the best thing you can do is let Sarah Woods’ guidebook introduce you to this fascinating land only three ...

Cambodia and Vietnam with Journeys Within Tour Company

Tours in Review, January 2007 issue
To characterize our trip to Cambodia and Vietnam from Journeys Within Tour Company and Bed & Breakfast (Box 93155, GPO Siem Reap, Kingdom of Cambodia; call toll-free 877/454-3672, fax 855 63 964748 or visit www.journeys-within.com) as a “tour” would be a major understatement. Our experience would be better described as a personal invitation from a ...

Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia tour

Tours in Review, December 2006 issue
Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia tour
Twelve of us from across the U.S. met tour organizers Judy Slattum and Made Surya of Danu Enterprises (Box 156, Capitola, CA 95010; 888/476-0543, www.danutours.com) at the Zephyr Hotel in downtown Hanoi. Our group started together, then split into two smaller groups, one focusing on arts and culture (that was my group) and the other ...