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South Ameri-mania! Machu Picchu from $1195, Guatemala from $699, Including Air

With more than 22 years in business under its skin, Tara Tours continues to specialize in Central and South American vacations, one of its best being also the cheapest. How does…

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A Slow Bike in China: 16 Days Touring the Countryside from $129 a Day

Here's one that speaks to all you Sinophile pedalists out there: a long tour of China by bicycle including airfare, deluxe hotels, all meals (banquets too!), all fees to museums and…

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South Dakota's Badlands, So Good, They're Great

Tour the profound and profane in this heart-of-America roadtrip.

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Dominatable Snow, Man: Trekking on the Trail of The Yeti in the Himalayas from as Little as $425

Since 1976, Peter Owens has been leading trekking trips in Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim, including 33 for the Sierra Club. If you are hale and hearty (or just hale, I guess), you can join…

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Budget Tours of Mexico--the Original and the New--for Mature Travelers

Grand Circle Travel has returned with a newly redesigned Web site featuring its just-announced 2003 list of tours for the over 50 crowd. Today, we're featuring its most popular…

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Will You Fly Some Thousand Miles for a Camel Fair? You Should for This Rare Tour to India and Nepal

Back in the day, "I'd Walk a Mile for a Camel" was one of America's most popular slogans. Today, that's passé and smoking is a divisive habit, but going to North India and Nepal for a…

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Travel Exotic With Cosmos, From $174 a Day, Including Air to Asia and Down Under

For 75 years, the people at Cosmos Tours and its more expensive sister company, Globus, have been taking visitors (some 500,000 each year) to six continents and more than 60 countries.…

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Tips from the Publisher: Onward to Machu Picchu

Sure, you can spend four grueling days hiking the Inca Trail to get to Machu Picchu, but you can also go by train and bus, without so much as a crease in your Armani pants.

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Capitalizing on Vietnam, Cambodia & Thailand For $172 a Day

Gate 1, a tour operator we have recommended before, wants you to know there are three capital cities in Vietnam, and it will take you there (and more) for as little as $2,059 this fall…

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More Bangkok for your Buck: Circling Thailand at $83 a Day Gets You Airfare, Room, Transfers, Tours and More

Earlier this year, I wrote in this space about an 18-day tour to Thailand costing from just $1,560 per person (sharing a double room), air inclusive. Now Grand Circle has come in with…

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Unbelievable, Unvisited Unalaska: $1,175 With Air

If you want to be the first on your block to visit a spot few people go to, consider Unalaska, an island in the Aleutians, one of the most remote parts of North America. You remember…

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Thomasville, a Well Kept Georgian Secret

Bob Fisher takes you on a tour of this enclave once the vacation destination of choice for the well-heeled.

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Two Weeks in Andalusia Includes Airfare (and a) Car (and a) Farmhouse (and a) Paella Dinner--(and a) $240 per person Discount

We told you earlier aboutthe benefits of booking packages through Untours as demonstrated in their Budapest apartment stay. Now for the fallseason, Untours is lopping off over 200…

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Save a Little Green on the Greens in British Columbia from $1,425

You can join in Queen Elizabeth II's year-long Golden Jubilee celebration without an over-the-oceanflight to the UK. How, you say? Head to British Columbia in Canada--aCommonwealth…

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Lend an Ear to Audio Tours: Arizona, Nevada and the Northeastern U.S. with a Special Discount Thrown in Just for Frommer's Readers

Nothing makes a guided tour better than a really good narrative, and if you're lucky, the person taking you around can provide just that. Much of the time, however, you wish the guide…

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Tips from the Publisher: Insider's Sicily

Frommer's publisher, Mike Spring, rounds up the highlights of this oft overlooked island.

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Fall Back For Autumn Foliage Tours from $899

It's rare that ArthurFrommer's Budget Travel magazine puts its imprimatur on a tour operator'sbrochures, but that's what has happened with the 2002 Cosmos publications,including the…

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Tips from the Publisher: Make Your Travel Plans Now for the Grand Canyon

Mike Spring offers some tips on visiting one of the jewels in our National Parks system.

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The Return of Dr. Finch: 3 Weeks in Guatemala from the Unbelievable $1,720

An e-mail arrived just last week from Dr. Richard Finch, recently retired geology prof from Tennessee Tech and guide extraordinaire, reminding us about his wonderful and wonder-filled…

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Tips from the Publisher: Biking in Europe

Michael Spring's suggestions on biking in Europe.

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A $25 Discount in Connecticut's Quiet Corner

I'll bet you don't know about small town Brooklyn, or that it's certainly not in New York across the river from Manhattan, but in Connecticut's "Quiet Corner," the seldom-visited…

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Soulful Journeys: Absorb Tours Offers Exotic Locales

In keeping with our policy of presenting good value travel opportunities, we want to recommend Absorb Tours, a New York-based group specializing in a few select destinations, namely…

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Hawaii by Mule, Above the Clouds or Down the Tube

Ever since Robert Luis Stevenson traveled across Provence with his donkey (a long time ago), the mule has been shoved out of the limelight, first by the horse, then the Jeep, now the…

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Find Your Digs by Activity in Costa Rica with a New Online Hotel Index

Costa Rica Hotel Index and Costa Rica Expeditions.

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Tips from the Publisher: Biking in Holland

Holland is biking country, particularly for families and people on the far-edge of middle age.