Tours

18-day/16-night tour, Sept. 11-28, 2009. Booking deadline, July 11. Highlights: Austro-Hungarian architecture in Novi Sad, SERBIA/visit artists’ studios in Belgrade/in BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA, Sarajevo’s oriental bazaar/walled town of Kotor, MONTENEGRO/CROATIA’S Dubrovnik. From New York, $5,675. Single supp., $820.

Craft World Tours (Byron, NY; 585/548-2667, www.craftworldtours.com).

8-day/7-night women’s hiking and cooking tour of ITALY, Oct. 17-24, 2009. Highlights: Near Assisi, hike Mount Subasio Regional Park/medieval villages near Spoleto/ancient abbey of St. Eutizio/two cooking lessons. Land only, $2,650. Single supp., $450. Active Journeys (Toronto, ON, Canada; 800/597-5594, www.activejourneys.com).

9 days/8 nights, Sept. 4-12, 2009. Highlights: Embark MV Princesse de Provence in Lyon/wine tasting in Burgundy, Beaujolais and at Châteauneuf-du-Pape/six cycle excursions, including Arles, Avignon, Vienne. From $3,467. Bike & Cruise Tours (Naples, FL; 239/431-6219, www.bikeandcruise.com).

6-day/5-night tour, Oct. 28-Nov. 2, 2009, includes pre-1905-car event. Highlights: Royal Automobile Club events/Churchill’s war bunker, Cabinet Rooms/Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Oliver,” starring Rowan Atkinson. Land only, $2,725. Single supp., $750. Steve Austin’s Automobilia & Great Vacations (Colton, OR; 800/452-8434, www.steveaustinsgreatvacations.com).

13-day/11-night tour of ARGENTINA and CHILE includes 3-day cruise aboard MV Via Australis or MV Mare Australis. Departs Oct. 18 and Nov. 11, 2009. Highlights: In Buenos Aires, cook empanadas; tour Recoleta Cemetery/from Ushuaia sail to Beagle and Magdalena channels, looking for dolphins and condors/take a Zodiac near Piloto and Nena glaciers/Magdalena Island penguin colony/Torres del Paine National Park/Santiago, CHILE, winery tour. From $8,990 includes tour, cruise and internal air. Single supp., from $2,500.

11-day/9-night tour includes 4-day Nile cruise. Highlights: Cruise up Nile to Luxor for Valley of the Kings, Kom Ombo temple complex/Memphis, first capital of Egypt/pyramids of Giza and Sphinx/in Cairo, Egyptian Museum and Mohammad Ali Alabaster Mosque. From $2,685 from New York. Single supp., $995. Lotus International Tours (Yorba Linda, CA; 888/329-7848, www.discover-egypt.com).

10 days/9 nights, Oct. 3-12, 2009. Highlights: In Yangon, golden Sule Pagoda, crafts and gems at Bogyoke Market/boat excursion on Inle Lake/Jumping Cat Monastery/Phaung Daw Oo Festival includes leg rower races/Mt. Popa, home to 37 nats (spirits)/three royal capitals: Amarapura, Sagaing and Inwa. Land only, from $1,550. Single supp., $575. Round-trip air from Los Angeles, from $875. Ceylon Express International (Huntington Beach, CA; 800/423-9566, www.ceylonexpress.com).

22-day/18-night tour includes Pushkar Camel Festival and two days of volunteer work at village school. Highlights: In Delhi, Qutab Minar, Red Fort/ride camels into the dunes near Kanoi/dancers, artisans and thousands of camels at the Pushkar Mela (livestock fair)/in Jaipur, Amber Palace, Palace of Winds/Taj Mahal by moonlight in Agra/return via Delhi. $4,950 from Vancouver. Single supp., $1,475. Bestway Tours & Safaris (8678 Greenall Ave., Ste. 206, Burnaby, BC, Canada; 800/663-0844, www.bestway.com).

16 days/14 nights, Sept. 1-16, 2009. Highlights: Fado show in Lisbon/coast on a wicker sled in Funchal/Porto city tour/train to Régua, then cruise (day trip) down Douro River/Busaco, the “Venice of Portugal”/attend Mass in Fátima. Land only, $3,850. Single supp., $875. Con Ginny-Al Tours (Los Altos, CA; 800/842-4955, www.azorestours.org).

16 days/15 nights; departs July 30, 2009, and July 8 & Aug. 12, 2010. Highlights: Inveraray Castle, home of the Duke of Argyll/distillery tour in Oban/ferry to Isle of Skye/Hebrides islands of Harris, St. Kilda, Lewis/on Orkney island, Skara Brae archaeological site/hit golf balls on the Old Course at St. Andrews/in Edinburgh, attend the Military Tattoo/return via Glasgow. Land only, $5,395. Single supp., $1,000.  Celtic Dream Tours (Tampa, FL; 813/317-6039, www.celticdreamtours.com).