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The Quito City Discover Card offers users 15%-50% discounts on shopping, dining, accommodation, entertainment and entry to points of interest at more than 40 participating locations throughout the historic center of Quito, Ecuador. Priced at $15 per person and valid for 15 days, it can be purchased online and at participating establishments.
by Randy Keck (Third of three parts)
by Julie Skurdenis
by Yvonne Horn
Tell ITN about the funniest thing that ever happened to you while traveling in a foreign country. (ITN prints no info on destinations in the United States.) There are no restrictions on length. The ITN staff will choose each month’s winner, who will receive a free one-year subscription to ITN. Entries not chosen cannot be acknowledged.
This month’s winner is NANCI SCHEITHAUER of Santa Fe, NM:
17 days/16 nights, Oct. 26-Nov. 11, 2012. Highlights: Santiago city tour, Pablo Neruda’s house/Pucon in the Lake District/Villarrica Volcano/cruise fjords on catamaran Patagonia Express /Punta Arenas/Torres del Paine National Park/Viña Concha y Toro winery/El Pueblito de Los Dominicos handicraft market. From Los Angeles, $7,390. Single supp., $1,290. EastWest International Tours (Laguna Beach, CA; 800/359-6719).
13 days/12 nights. Highlights: Windhoek city tour/encounter cheetahs, leopards at AfriCat Foundation/Etosha National Park, home to lions, elephants, giraffes, ostriches/visit a Himba settlement/Desert Rhino Camp/Twyfelfontein rock engravings/cruise to see Cape fur seals, dolphins, birds in Swakopmund/world’s highest dunes. Land, $8,450. Single supp., $1,000. EverGreen Escapes (Seattle, WA; 866/203-7603).
11 days/9 nights. Highlights: Hanoi’s 11th-century One Pillar Pagoda, stelae at Temple of Literature/view karst formations during cruise on Ha Long Bay aboard a wooden junk/Hue’s Imperial Citadel, Thai Hoa Palace/Lang Co fishing village/in Da Nang, Cham Museum/visit potters and woodcarvers in Hoi An/Binh Tay market, Cu Chi Tunnels in Saigon. Land, $1,880. Single supp., $773. Orient Odyssey (Point Roberts, WA; 800/637-5778).
8-day/7-night, “moderate” walking tour (five to seven hours’ walking per day, with demanding ascent or descent for up to 800 meters per day) in PORTUGAL. Highlights: Funchal/clifftop walk at São Lourenço/follow the levada (irrigation channel) path to Florenças/Balcony Walk between the peaks Arieiro and Ruivo. Land, from $810. Single supp., $190. Explore! North America (Oakland, CA; 800/715-1746).
Nine days/seven nights in ITALY. Highlights: In Rome, Forum, Circus Maximus, Colosseum/in Vatican City, Sistine Chapel, “Pieta” at St. Peter’s Basilica/Pompeii/Amalfi Coast/sail Bay of Naples to Positano and Sorrento/tour a mozzarella factory/Blue Grotto on Isle of Capri. Land, from $3,490. Single supp., $1,000. Perillo Tours (Woodcliff Lake, NJ; 800/431-1515).