The most traditional pizzerias in Naples, Italy, are visited on a 3-hour walking tour with Select Italy (in the US, 800/877-1755, https://selectitaly.com).
Led by an art historian/pizza expert, travelers see a Roman-era pizza oven at the archaeological site at San Lorenzo Maggiore and sample pizza at the restaurants L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele, Pizzeria Trianon, Di Matteo and others.
Travelers can experience the deepest and longest fjord in Norway by train and boat on the “Sognefjord in a Nutshell” day tour offered by Fjordtours (Møllendalsveien 1A, N5009 Bergen, Norway; phone +47 55 55 76 60, www.fjordtours.com/en).
A 2-hour train ride from Bergen to Myrdal is followed by a one-hour ride on the Flåm Railway from Myrdal to Flåm and then a 5½-hour fjord cruise back to Bergen. Travelers can also begin and end their journey in Oslo, requiring two 5-hour train trips to and from Bergen.
Using Switzerland Tourism’s Winter Resort Finder website (http://winterfinder.myswitzerland.com), you can specify your preferred kind of winter vacation, from rustic to modern and from budget-conscious to opulent, and get personalized recommendations of resort towns across the country. You then can click on any town for more info, including weather, accommodation costs and local activities.
Tourism Australia has compiled a list of 28 campgrounds in Australia with luxury tents and/or luxury cabins.
One such campsite is Ikara Safari Camp (Wilpena Road, Via Hawker, 5434 South Australia; phone +61 800 805 802, www.ikarasafaricamp.com.au), located at the Wilpena Pound Resort, where guests can stay in a safari tent with a king-sized bed, a bathroom en suite and electricity. For up to four people in a tent, a night costs AUD498 (near $351).
In a position of strategic importance, Malta has often been the target of invading armies. Visitors can explore the history of the Mediterranean island’s defensive buildings at the Fortress Builders Fortifications Interpretation Centre (St. Mark St., Valletta, Malta; phone +356 21228594, http://thefortressbuilders.weebly.com).
Housed in a fortified former warehouse of the Knights of Malta, the center exhibits multiple reproductions, in miniature, of historic and still-standing fortifications on Malta plus artifacts from Malta’s forts and descriptions of siege warfare.
In Husavík, Iceland, visitors can go whale-watching aboard a traditional oak sailboat operated by North Sailing (Husavík; phone +354 464 7272, www.northsailing.is). Using only sails or electric motors, North Sailing’s boats do not alarm whales and are ecofriendly.
Operating multiple 3-hour expeditions daily, May 1-Sept. 30, from Husavík harbor (look for the yellow flags), a trip costs ISK10,500 (near $85) and includes cold-weather overalls, gloves, hat, rain gear and blanket.
In Negril, guests of the Rockhouse (West End Rd., Negril, Jamaica; phone +1 876 618 1533, www.rock house.com) each receive a “passport” with which to build up points — by purchasing or participating in local activities and visiting sites — to redeem at the hotel for rewards.
Among many activities listed are cooking classes, reggae concerts, cliff diving and day tours. A guest gets a stamp for each activity, and his reward is based on the number of stamps in his passport. For example, 25 stamps will earn a complimentary spa treatment.
Giving insights into the Aboriginal Koorie people’s history and way of life, a day tour in Melbourne, Australia, includes the Royal Botanic Gardens, to learn how flora was used by the Koorie; the restaurant Charcoal Lane, to learn about ingredients they used; Federation Square, a meeting place for the Kulin nation; the Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre at the Melbourne Museum, and the Koorie Heritage Trust.
The tour runs 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. each Wed. and Fri. (except Dec. 15-Jan. 15). Group limit, 12. AUD209 (near $160) adult or AUD109 child.
In Latvia, more than 1,000 bells are displayed in the Museum of Bells in the old stable house of the 15th-century Blankenfelde Manor (Jelgava district, Vilce parish, Blankenfelde, LV-3026, Latvia; phone +371 27810348, http://blankenfeldes muiza.lv/en).
From around the world, the bells vary in age, style and material — commemorative bells, figural bells, gongs and even bells recast from metal from Lenin monuments. Including a tour, a museum visit costs €3 adult or €2 senior or student, and you must call in advance.
The Likeways app, available for free on iTunes, suggests walking routes in major cities worldwide. A user inputs his starting location and where he would like to walk to plus the kinds of sites he would like to see along the way (museums, shops, restaurants, etc.). Likeways then creates two walking routes: the shortest one from the user’s location to his destination and a longer route that includes sites of interest.