Tours

12 days/12 nights, Sept. 18-30. Highlights: Champagne tasting, vineyard visits/Domrémy, where Joan of Arc was born/Nancy, center of Art Nouveau/Château Lunéville/Underground Citadelle and battlefield at Verdun/Château Chantilly. Land, $3,895. Single supp., $450.

Intimate France (Oakland, CA; 800/676-1247).

11 days/10 nights, July 3-13, 2011. Highlights: In SCOTLAND, Glasgow city tour/coastal Oban/Glencoe and Fort William in the Highlands/in Stirling, Bannockburn battlefield/Edinburgh Castle/fly to Dublin, IRELAND, for Dublin Trinity College, Book of Kells/Kilkenny/Blarney Woollen Mills/Dingle Peninsula/Cliffs of Moher. Land, $2,579. Single supp., $325.

David McGuffin’s Exploring Europe (Middleburg, FL; 800/570-1351).

Four-day, three-night tour of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), CHILE. Highlights: Orongo ceremonial village/Ana Kai Tangata Cave/west coast of island with its petroglyphs, caves and moais/Matato’a music-and-dance show/15 standing moais of Ahu Tongariki/artisans’ market. With air from Santiago, Chile, $4,498 (Hotel Iorana) or $4,179 (Hotel O’tai).

Chilean Special Journeys (Santiago, Chile; phone, in US, 888/345-6077).

17 days/16 nights. Highlights: From Johannesburg, fly to Windhoek, NAMIBIA/cheetahs in private reserve/Sossusvlei dunes/cruise Walvis Bay/game drives in Etosha National Park, Mahango Game Park/80-ton Hoba Meteorite/in BOTSWANA, Chobe National Park for elephants/cruise Zambezi River at Victoria Falls, ZIMBABWE. Land, from $7,499. Single supp., $2,000.

Collette Vacations (Pawtucket, RI; 877/867-5002).

15 days/14 nights, July 17-30, 2011. Join a seven-day nontechnical climb of the Machame route up Mt. Kilimanjaro (summit 19,345 feet)/on Zanzibar island, take part in a four-day project building a sustainable farm for primary school students. Land and internal air, $5,195.

Roadmonkey Adventure Philanthropy (Brooklyn, NY; 323/924-8351, http://roadmonkey.net).

12 days/11 nights. Highlights: In VIETNAM, Hanoi cyclo tour of the “36 streets”/cruise Halong Bay/Cu Chi Tunnels in Ho Chi Minh City/Siem Reap, CAMBODIA/Angkor Wat/Ta Prohm/Bangkok, THAILAND.  Land, from $2,299. Single supp., $699. Air from West Coast, from $999. Pacific Delight Tours (New York, NY; 800/221-7179, www.pacificdelighttours.com).

20 days/19 nights, June 27-July 16, 2011. Highlights: In Vladivostok, RUSSIA, board Trans-Siberian Express for Irkutsk/ride Circumbaikal Railway around Lake Baikal and hydrofoil across the lake/freshwater seals near Ushkanye Islands/Ulaanbaatar, MONGOLIA/Gorkhi-Terelj National Park/Naadam Festival/Gobi Desert. Land and internal air, from $7,995. Partial single supp. (single accoms. not available every night), $1,095.

MIR Corp. (Seattle, WA; 800/424-7289, www.mircorp.com).

Ten-day, nine-night tour of WWI and WWII sites, June 8-17, 2011. Highlights: Reims, FRANCE, site of Eisenhower’s SHAEF HQ/Maginot Line/Bastogne battle site, BELGIUM/American Cemetery in LUXEMBOURG/Dachau concentration camp, GERMANY/Munich/Berchtesgaden/Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest, AUSTRIA. Land, $2,995. Single supp., $400. Valor Tours, Ltd. (Sausalito, CA; 415/332-7850, www.valortours.com).

Nine days/seven nights. Highlights: Medieval-style dinner at Bunratty Castle/Cliffs of Moher/Ring of Kerry/Cobh Heritage Centre/Waterford/Kilkenny Castle Rose Garden/Irish National Stud and Japanese Gardens in Kildare/Dublin. From New York, from $1,700. Single supp., $647. CIE Tours (Morristown, NJ; 800/243-8687, www.cietours.com).

Nine days/eight nights in ENGLAND, SCOTLAND and WALES. Highlights: London/Cambridge/medieval York/in Scotland, Hadrian’s Wall/12th-century Melrose Abbey/Edinburgh/Royal Yacht Britannia/back in England, Stratford-upon-Avon/in Wales, Cardiff Castle. Land, from $979. Single supp., $405. Cosmos (Littleton, CO; 800/276-1241, www.cosmos.com).