TOURS, ETC\Eight-day tour visits Civil War sites.Byline: Daily News In partnership with the Civil War Trust of Washington, D.C., Globus offers an eight-day tour of battlefields and other historic sites important during the Civil War; the tour begins in Washington and ends in Richmond, Va. The tour will visit the homes of Robert E. Lee and "Stonewall stone·wall v. stone·walled, stone·wall·ing, stone·walls v.intr. 1. Informal a. " Jackson, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Spotsylvania, Antietam, Gettysburg, Harper's Ferry Noun 1. Harper's Ferry - a small town in northeastern West Virginia that was the site of a raid in 1859 by the abolitionist John Brown and his followers who captured an arsenal that was located there Harpers Ferry and Appomattox. Cost ranges from $889 to $909, double occupancy, and includes lodgings, breakfast and dinner daily, motorcoach transportation, sightseeing, baggage handling, hotel tips and taxes. Air fare to Washington is not included. Eleven departures are scheduled between April 28 and Oct. 6. Information: (800) 851-0728. Baja weekend: Los Angeles Pierce College
Baja California (Span.: bä`hä kälēfōr`nyä), state (1990 pop. 1,660,855), 27,628 sq mi (71,576 sq km), NW Mexico, on the Baja California peninsula. Mexicali is the capital. , Mexico. Travel is by Amtrak's San Diegan The San Diegan was one of the named passenger trains of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, and a "workhorse" of the railroad. Its 126-mile (203-kilometer) route ran from Los Angeles, California south to San Diego. It was assigned train Nos. 70–79 (Nos. to San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. for lunch, then a bus ride to Tijuana, Ensenada and Rosarito Beach. Cost is $289 per person, double occupancy, and included roundtrip rail and motorcoach transportation, two nights' lodgings and one dinner. Information: (818) 719-6425. Sail the Queen: Abercrombie & Kent offers a July 22 trip to England that includes a five-day Atlantic crossing aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2. The 12-day trip, designed especially for families, includes visits to London, Salisbury, Longleat, Bath, Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon and Windsor. Costs start at $6,790 per person, double occupancy, and include the sea voyage with meals, hotels, most meals during the tour, transfers, guide services, baggage handling and return flight on British Airways. Rates for a child sharing a room start at $4,560 per child. Information: (800) 323-7308. Israel study: Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), founded in 1897, was one of the first official Zionist organizations in the United States, and, especially early in the 20th century, the primary representative of the Jews of the United States to the World Zionist Organization, espousing , offers a monthlong Israeli volunteer-study and travel program scheduled to depart New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of April 22 and return May 21. Participants will work mornings as volunteers in hospitals and community centers, tutoring in English, packing supplies for the Israel Defense Forces, planting gardens, painting murals and doing carpentry. Afternoons will be devoted to conversational Hebrew lessons and sightseeing tours. Evenings will feature discussions, folk dancing, entertainment and dinners. Cost is $2,999 per person, double occupancy, and includes roundtrip air fare from New York, lodgings, two meals per day, Hebrew instruction and some sightseeing. Information: (212) 303-8133. |
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