Tours

8-day/7-night cruise-tour, May 24-31, 2009. Highlights: Board M/V Helvetia II in Basel, SWITZERLAND/ Cruise up the Rhine and visit Baden-Baden, Speyer, Andernach, Mannheim, Neustadt and Freiburg, enjoying seven classical music performances of orchestral and chamber works. From £2,660 (near $3,853). Single supplement, from £540 ($782).

Martin Randall Travel (Voysey House, Barley Mow Passage, London, W4 4GF, U.K.; phone 020 8742 3355, www.martinrandall.com).

9-day/9-night tour in France and Spain, Oct. 3-11, 2009. Highlights: In FRANCE, explore Biarritz’s Les Halles marketplace with a chef; learn to cook Basque specialties/in Bayonne, visit a chocolatier/go wine tasting/shop in markets of St. Jean Pied du Port and St. Jean du Luz/in San Sebastian, SPAIN, do a “tapas crawl.” Land price, $3,695. Single supplement, $400.

Your Great Days In Paris (Medford, MA; 781/391-6183).

10 days/9 nights, May 8-17, 2010. Highlights: 6-night river cruise aboard M/S Casanova, beginning in Rotterdam and Delft, HOLLAND/visit windmills of Kinderdijk/in BELGIUM, medieval Bruges/Antwerp/Brussels/100 varieties of tulips and more at Keukenkhof Gardens near Amsterdam/fly to Munich, GERMANY/2,000 performers recreate Christ’s Passion in Oberammergau. Land/cruise, from $5,299. Single supplement, $900.

General Tours (Keene, NH; 800/221-2216, www.generaltours.com).

12 days/11 nights. Highlights: From Nairobi, KENYA, fly to Samburu; game drives for giraffe, Grevy’s zebra, Somali ostrich/Sweetwaters Tented Camp at Mt. Kenya/ Chimpanzee Sanctuary/Masai Mara wildlife sanctuary, home to elephants, buffalos, leopards/Lake Manyara National Park, with hippos, tree-climbing lions and many species of birds/game drives in Ngorongoro Crater, TANZANIA/Serengeti National Park/return via Arusha. Land and internal air, $8,850. Single supplement, $750.

17 days/15 nights, April-October 2009. Highlights: Visit Olympic venues in Beijing/Great Wall at Mutianyu/51,000 statues to honor the Buddha at Yungang Caves, Datong/1,400-year-old Hanging Temple on Hengshan Mountain/Ming-era walled city of Pinyao/in Chengdu, Giant Panda Breeding Research Center/in Le Shan, the tallest stone Buddha in the world/Naxi folk music performance in Lijiang/Bai Minority State Museum in Dali/Stone Forest near Kunming/depart from Shanghai. From New York, from $3,499. Land only, from $2,899. Single supplement, $650.

15 days/14 nights. Highlights: Fly Delhi-Kathmandu/city tour, Boudhanath Stupa/Patan/Pashupatinath Temple/optional flight to view Mt. Everest ($200)/trek Modi River Valley/in Birethanti, meet mayor and Nepali villagers/canoe Lake Phewa/International Mountain Museum in Pokhara/meet thangka artist/raft Seti River/Chitwan National Park on elephantback/depart from Delhi. Land only, from $2,995. From New York (add two days), from $4,195. Single supplement, $795. Overseas Adventure Travel (Cambridge, MA; 800/955-1925, www.oattravel.com).

15 nights, March 1-18, 2009. Highlights: In Delhi, 800-year-old Qutab Minar, Crafts Museum/holy Hindu city of Varanasi/boat on Ganges/temple carvings in Khajuraho/train to Agra and the Taj Mahal/in Jaipur, elephant ride to Amber Fort/Jaipur’s Royal Observatory, Palace of the Winds/Holi (Festival of Colors) in Udaipur/sunset cruise on Lake Pichola to Jangmandir Palace/2,000-year-old Ajanta and Ellora caves/ spice farm house in Kerala/traditional tharavad home in Kerala. Land price, $4,990. Single supplement, $1,590. Internal air, $990.

8 days/7 nights, May-August 2010. Highlights: In Munich, GERMANY, Old Town, Marienplatz, Frauenkirche/attend Passionsspiele (Passion Play) in Oberammergau, performed in High German (English libretto supplied); 2,000 townspeople are the actors, musicians and technicians/in Innsbruck, AUSTRIA, Hapsburg-era architecture/in Bolzano, ITALY, dine in 13th-century Castle Katzenzungen/cable car through snowcapped Dolomite Mountains/Limone sul Garda on Lake Garda/in Venice, St. Mark’s Basilica, Doge’s Palace. Land price, from $4,357 triple, $4,490 double, $4,997 single.

15-day/14-night tour of IRELAND, May-September 2009. Highlights: Dublin tour/Boyne Valley and Newgrange/Wicklow’s Mt. Usher Gardens/sixth-century monastic settlement in Glendalough/Waterford Crystal Factory/medieval Kilkenny/Blarney Castle/Lakes of Killarney/Dingle Peninsula and Slea Head/jaunting cart through Killarney National Park/Muckross House museum of 18th-century life/Cliffs of Moher/fly to Insihmore island/”Twelve Bens” mountains/in Drumcliff, Yeats Center/13th-century Boyle Abbey/return via Dublin. Land only, $5,299. Single supplement, $929.

14 days/13 nights in PERU includes six-day, seven-night river cruise. Highlights: Aboard river boat, in Pacaya Samiria National Reserve see caimans, monkeys, dolphins, birds/fish for piranha/disembark; Sacsayhuaman/Pisac Indian market/Sacred Valley/Machu Picchu. For one traveler, land and cruise for $4,943-$5,633, depending on hotel; cheaper with more travelers. Single supp., $699-$988.

GreenTracks (Bayfield, CO; 970/884-6107).