Tours

Six days/five nights in FRANCE. Average distance cycled daily, 28 miles. Highlights: Taste sparkling wine at Château Chambord/picnic at Château de Cheverny/Leonardo da Vinci’s sketches, models at Clos Lucé/water garden, maze at Château de Villandry. Land, $4,495. Single supp., $750.

DuVine Adventures (Somerville, MA; 888/396-5383).

Eight-day/six-night tour of ENGLAND (through October 2010). Highlights: Hampton Court/Stonehenge/cream tea in Devon/Land’s End/Penzance/Glastonbury, “King Arthur’s burial site”/Bath/stone circle of Avebury/Windsor. Land, $1,285. Single supp., $380.

Brendan Vacations (Chatsworth, CA; 800/421-8446).

10 days/nine nights. Highlights: San Francisco catacombs in Lima/fly to Cusco/tour Pisac for handicrafts/Inca-built Ollanta/archaeological site of Ollantaytambo/train to Machu Picchu/Sacsayhuaman, Kenko and Tampu sites. Land and internal air, $2,629. Single supp., $1,229. Sol International (Kodak, TN; 800/765-5657).

12 days/11 nights. Highlights: Arenal Volcano National Park/tapirs, monkeys and jaguars in Santa Elena Cloud Forest Reserve/ocelots, margays and cougars in Las Pumas Cat Zoo/Sarchi artisan town/birds, turtles and caimans in Tortuguero. Land and air from Miami, from $1,499. Single supp., from $638.

Gate 1 Travel (Fort Washington, PA; 800/682-3333).

Eight days/seven nights. Departures through Feb. 26, 2011. Highlights: Whitewater rafting on Pacuare River/hike to waterfall, hot springs on Arenal Volcano/trail ride on horseback through Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve. Land, from $1,399.

BikeHike Adventures (200-1807 Maritime Mews, Vancouver, BC, V6H 3W7 Canada; 888/805-0061).

12 days/11 nights, July 6-17, 2010, March 13-21, 20011 & July 3-11, 2011. Highlights: Lions, giraffes, elephants, baboons in Lake Manyara National Park/Big Five in Ngorongoro Crater/visit a Maasai village/fossils in Olduvai Gorge/Serengeti Plain game viewing/visit Hadzabe bushmen. Land, $3,650.

Wilderness Inquiry (Minneapolis, MN; 800/728-0719).

Six days/nights, women’s-only hiking trip in CANADA, Sept. 6-12, 2010. Must be in very good physical condition. Highlights: In Wells Gray Park, hike to Trophy Mountain Chalet/hike Valley of the Lakes, cross Eagle Pass/Table Mountain. Land, $1,525.

Adventures in Good Company (Baltimore, MD; 877/439-4042).

Nine days/eight nights. Departures through Nov. 13, 2010. Highlights: In Kyoto, Meiji Jingu Shinto shrine, the Ginza, bay cruise/Edo Wonderland of Samurai and Ninja/cruise Lake Ashi/Kasuga Shrine, Deer Park on Nara/Kyoto’s Nijo Castle and 1,001 statues of Kannon/sake tasting. Land, $4,790. Single supp., $1,190.

Big Five Tours & Expeditions (Stuart, FL; 800/244-3483).

15-day/14-night tour of INDIA includes seven nights’ cruising on the Hoogly (Hugli) River. Departures through Dec. 16, 2010. Highlights: From Calcutta, cruise to Kalna in Bengal/brass-working village of Matiari/Hazarduari Palace/disembark at Farakka Barrage (dam)/Delhi/Taj Mahal in Agra/Jaipur. Land and cruise, from $2,998. Single supp., from $1,799.

Value World Tours (Fountain Valley, CA; 800/795-1633).

13 days/11 nights, Oct. 10-22, 2010, includes folk dancing with choreographer Lee Ottherholt plus four-day island cruise. Highlights: Athens/archaeological sites at Delphi, Epidaurus/cliff monasteries of Meteora/Mykonos/Kus¸adası, TURKEY/Rhodes.  Land $2,985. From New York, $3,495. Single supp., $595. Three-day Santorini extension, $595.

Jim Gold International (Teaneck, NJ; 201/836-0362).