A selection of tours and cruise-tours
9-day, 8-night “easy-to-moderate” tour in PERU, April-October 2020. Highlights: Lima to Puerto Maldonado/Tres Chimbadas Lake/at Tambopata Research Center, parrots at macaw clay lick/train to Machu Picchu/Cusco and nearby Incan ruins. From $4,198 ppdo. Single supp., $1,198. Wild Planet Adventures (San Rafael, CA; 800/990-4376, www.wildplanetadventures.com).
10-day, 9-night tour. Departures May-Sept. 2020. Highlights: In Riga, LATVIA, Riga Castle, Dome Cathedral, Swedish Gate/in Tallinn, ESTONIA, Toompea Castle, Alexander Nevsky Cathedral/ferry to Helsinki, FINLAND, for Senate Square, Sibelius Monument, Church in the Rock/in St. Petersburg, RUSSIA, Peter and Paul Fortress, St. Isaac’s Cathedral (museum), Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood. From London, £1,660 (near $2,141) ppdo. Single supp., £555 ($716).
10 days, 9 nights, June 11-20, 2020, with local historians. Highlights: Coach from Paris, France, to WWI battle site Château-Thierry/Reims/in BELGIUM, WWII’s Battle of the Bulge sites, including Manhay, Hotton, McAuliffe Square/Patton’s grave in LUXEMBOURG/through GERMANY’s Rhine Valley to Eagle’s Nest/Berchtesgaden/Dachau/Nazi sites in Munich. $3,500 per person, double occupancy (ppdo). Single supp., $600. Valor Tours (Sausalito, CA; 800/842-4504, www.valortours.com).
CORRECTION — This 11-day, 9-night tour of SPAIN and FRANCE (Jan. ’20, pg. 46) is offered by the Archaeological Institute of America (Walpole, NH; 800/748-6262), whose correct URL is www.aiatours.org.
8-day, 7-night “medium”-level hiking trip in northern SPAIN, July 19-26, 2020. Average 6-10 miles per day. Highlights: From Oviedo to Ubiñas Mountains in Quirós for base camp in restored 15th-century farmhouse/explore 200-year-old grain mills, cider press/Somieda Nat’l Park/local markets, cooking demonstrations/mountain village of Cortes. From €1,400 (near $1,564) ppdo. Single supp., €400 ($447). Spanish Steps (Aspen, CO; 877/787-9255, www.spanishsteps.com).
8 days, 7 nights in western TURKEY, May 16-23 & Sept. 26-Oct. 3, 2020. Highlights: Board gulet at Mediterranean port of Göcek/hike Faralya to Kabak/2,500-year-old ruins of Sidyma/ancient burial grounds in Üçag˘iz/Ottoman castle at Kale/ruins at Patara/cross Babadagˆ mountain for view of Butterfly Valley/“ghost town” of Kayaköy. £2,465 ($3,224) ppdo. Single supp., £645 ($844). Peter Sommer Travels (Monmouth, Wales, UK; in US & Can., 855/443-3027, www.petersommer.com).
10-day, 9-night trek in CHINA led by explorer-author Jeff Fuchs, Nov. 6-15, 2020. Group limit, 10. Highlights: Mekong River for stilted houses in Ganlanba, Dai village, Menghai Market/Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Shangri-la’s Old Town/taste butter and “pickled” teas along caravan road/near Napahai Lake, see artisans creating black clay pottery. From $7,100 ppdo. Single supp., $1,105. WildChina (Beijing, China; in US, 888/902-8808, www.wildchina.com).
11-day, 10-night birding tour in PERU, July 1-11, 2020. Group limit, 7. Highlights: Fly from Lima to Tarapoto/Huallaga River for pheasant cuckoo/marvellous spatuletail hummingbird at Lago Pomacochas/Morro de Calzada nature preserve, home to western puffbird, black-faced tanager/Abra Patricia Reserve for tiny, long-whiskered owlet/Moyobamba for orchids, hummingbirds. $5,250 ppdo. Single supp., $420. WINGS Birding Tours Worldwide (Tucson, AZ; 866/547-9868, www.wingsbirds.com).
13-day, 12-night motorcycle tour in NEW ZEALAND, Nov. 1-13, 2020, Jan. 16-28 & Oct. 31-Nov. 12, 2021. Group limit, 12. Highlights: Motorcycle handover in Auckland (North Island)/ride south to Coromandel Peninsula/in Rotorua, attend Maori cultural event and hangi (earth-pit oven) meal/Tongariro Nat’l Park/Greytown wineries/ferry to South Island/Nelson/cross Southern Alps for Punakaiki Rocks/Fox & Franz Josef glaciers/Mt. Cook/Christchurch. From $7,900 ppdo, including motorcycle rental. Co-rider, $5,900.