TOURS, ETC. : EXPERIENCE LIFE AS BOND, JAMES BOND, IN LONDON.

Byline: Daily News

London's Royal Garden Hotel offers a three-night ``On Her Majesty's Secret Service'' package that will let guests follow in the footsteps of 007, the world's best-known fictional secret agent. Included are three nights' lodgings; a visit to London's Spymaster Shop, known for its high-tech surveillance gadget; a four-hour car racing lesson; a day in Norfolk for a spy course that includes training in weapons, tank driving and unarmed combat; dinner at the Ritz and an evening at the roulette wheels of Victoria Casino. Cost is $1,550 per person, double occupancy. Information: [phone].

Pricey learning: World Explorer Cruises and the Institute for Shipboard Education offer a semester-at-sea program on 100-day voyages aboard the SS Universe Explorer, including three- to six-day port stops, for adults. Once offered only to college students, the program of classes and lectures is now open to adult passengers either for academic credit or audit.

The spring voyage departs Jan. 30 from Nassau, the Bahamas, and sails to El Salvador, South Africa, Kenya, India, Vietnam, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Japan, before docking in Seattle on May 10. The fall 1997 voyage departs Sept. 14 from Vancouver, British Columbia, and stops in Japan, China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, India, Egypt, Israel, Istanbul, Turkey, Greece and Morocco before returning to Fort Lauderdale on Dec. 23. Cost is $14,880 per person, double occupancy ($17,880 for singles), and includes passage, port charges, room and board and access to the academic program. Information: [phone].

Drive and raft: OARS (Outdoor Adventure River Specialists) offers Aug. 25 and 29 and Sept. 2 departures of five-day backcountry adventures - by four-wheel-drive vehicle and by river raft - through Utah's Canyonlands National Park. Tour groups are limited to 13 people. Cost is $830 for adults, double occupancy, and $730 for children, and includes all equipment, food and most transportation. Information: [phone].

Mexican wines: Baja California Tours offers an overnight trip from San Diego to the L.A. Cetto Winery, in the Guadalupe Valley northeast of Ensenada, for a fiesta celebrating the first picking of 1996 wine grapes. Included will be one night's lodgings, wine tastings, fireworks, dinner, dancing and a bull fight. Cost is $129 per person, double occupancy. Information: [phone].

Into the jungle: ElderTreks, which specializes in exotic adventures for travelers over 50, offers Dec. 8-19 and Jan. 19-30 trips to Belize and Tikal. Travel will be by minivan, boat and small plane and includes stops in the Mountain Pine Ridge, the Rio Bravo rain forests, Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary, the 200-mile-long barrier reef that profiles the coastline and the Mayan site of Tikal in Guatemala. Groups are limited to 15 people. Cost is $2,095, single or double, and includes land transportation, hotels and meals; air fare is not included. Information: [phone].

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Photo: You may not be as suave as Agent 007, but you can pl ay with his lethal toys during a London jaunt.