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The wedding day of Prince William and Kate Middleton, April 29, 2011, will be a public holiday in the United Kingdom. Along with Easter, four public holidays will fall between April 22 and May 2. The wedding will be held at Westminster Abbey in London. Hotel rooms in the area were rapidly booked.
Four-day, three-night tour of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), CHILE. Highlights: Orongo ceremonial village/Ana Kai Tangata Cave/west coast of island with its petroglyphs, caves and moais/Matato’a music-and-dance show/15 standing moais of Ahu Tongariki/artisans’ market. With air from Santiago, Chile, $4,498 (Hotel Iorana) or $4,179 (Hotel O’tai).
Chilean Special Journeys (Santiago, Chile; phone, in US, 888/345-6077).
17 days/16 nights. Highlights: From Johannesburg, fly to Windhoek, NAMIBIA/cheetahs in private reserve/Sossusvlei dunes/cruise Walvis Bay/game drives in Etosha National Park, Mahango Game Park/80-ton Hoba Meteorite/in BOTSWANA, Chobe National Park for elephants/cruise Zambezi River at Victoria Falls, ZIMBABWE. Land, from $7,499. Single supp., $2,000.
Collette Vacations (Pawtucket, RI; 877/867-5002).
15 days/14 nights, July 17-30, 2011. Join a seven-day nontechnical climb of the Machame route up Mt. Kilimanjaro (summit 19,345 feet)/on Zanzibar island, take part in a four-day project building a sustainable farm for primary school students. Land and internal air, $5,195.
Roadmonkey Adventure Philanthropy (Brooklyn, NY; 323/924-8351, http://roadmonkey.net).
12 days/11 nights. Highlights: In VIETNAM, Hanoi cyclo tour of the “36 streets”/cruise Halong Bay/Cu Chi Tunnels in Ho Chi Minh City/Siem Reap, CAMBODIA/Angkor Wat/Ta Prohm/Bangkok, THAILAND. Land, from $2,299. Single supp., $699. Air from West Coast, from $999. Pacific Delight Tours (New York, NY; 800/221-7179, www.pacificdelighttours.com).
20 days/19 nights, June 27-July 16, 2011. Highlights: In Vladivostok, RUSSIA, board Trans-Siberian Express for Irkutsk/ride Circumbaikal Railway around Lake Baikal and hydrofoil across the lake/freshwater seals near Ushkanye Islands/Ulaanbaatar, MONGOLIA/Gorkhi-Terelj National Park/Naadam Festival/Gobi Desert. Land and internal air, from $7,995. Partial single supp. (single accoms. not available every night), $1,095.
MIR Corp. (Seattle, WA; 800/424-7289, www.mircorp.com).
Ten-day, nine-night tour of WWI and WWII sites, June 8-17, 2011. Highlights: Reims, FRANCE, site of Eisenhower’s SHAEF HQ/Maginot Line/Bastogne battle site, BELGIUM/American Cemetery in LUXEMBOURG/Dachau concentration camp, GERMANY/Munich/Berchtesgaden/Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest, AUSTRIA. Land, $2,995. Single supp., $400. Valor Tours, Ltd. (Sausalito, CA; 415/332-7850, www.valortours.com).
Nine days/seven nights. Highlights: Medieval-style dinner at Bunratty Castle/Cliffs of Moher/Ring of Kerry/Cobh Heritage Centre/Waterford/Kilkenny Castle Rose Garden/Irish National Stud and Japanese Gardens in Kildare/Dublin. From New York, from $1,700. Single supp., $647. CIE Tours (Morristown, NJ; 800/243-8687, www.cietours.com).
Nine days/eight nights in ENGLAND, SCOTLAND and WALES. Highlights: London/Cambridge/medieval York/in Scotland, Hadrian’s Wall/12th-century Melrose Abbey/Edinburgh/Royal Yacht Britannia/back in England, Stratford-upon-Avon/in Wales, Cardiff Castle. Land, from $979. Single supp., $405. Cosmos (Littleton, CO; 800/276-1241, www.cosmos.com).
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