TOURS, ETC. : TOUR EXPLORES CALIFORNIA BY LUXURY TRAIN, CRUISE SHIP.Byline: Daily News Clipper Cruise Line offers a tour package that combines a five-day journey aboard the private luxury train American Orient Express with a six-day cruise exploring Northern California waterways aboard the 138-passenger MV Yorktown Clipper. Westbound departures from Santa Fe, N.M., are scheduled Oct. 11 and 21 on the train, stopping at the Grand Canyon, Sunset Crater and Wupatki National Monument Wupatki National Monument: see National Parks and Monuments (table). Wupatki National Monument National monument, north-central Arizona, U.S. before continuing to Los Angeles and up the California coast to Oakland, where passengers transfer to the ship for a cruise of the Sacramento Delta, Napa Valley wine country and San Francisco Bay San Francisco Bay, 50 mi (80 km) long and from 3 to 13 mi (4.8–21 km) wide, W Calif.; entered through the Golden Gate, a strait between two peninsulas. . Eastbound departures, scheduled Oct. 10 and 20, follow the same itinerary in reverse. Cost begins at $3,040 per person, double occupancy. Information: (800) 325-0010. Under the sea: Sub-Sea Tours offers rides of various lengths from Morro Bay Harbor aboard an 18-passenger, glass-sided, semisubmersible sem·i·sub·mers·i·ble n. A seagoing, self-propelled barge that rides at anchor, stands on partially submerged vertical legs on submerged pontoons, and serves as living quarters and a base of operations in offshore drilling. vessel to view ocean life. Inside-bay tours last 30 to 40 minutes and cost $12.50 for adults and $5.50 for children under age 12; night tours last 45 minutes to an hour and cost $20 and $13; open-ocean surface tours last 45 minutes to three hours and cost $15 to $29 for adults, $7.50 to $19.50 for kids; and two-hour underwater kelp forest tours cost $22.50 and $15.50. Information: (805) 772-9463. Introductory Ireland: CIE (Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage, International Commission on Illumination, Vienna, Austria, www.cie.co.at) An international organization that sets standards for all aspects of lighting and illumination, including colorimetry, photometry and the measurement of visible and Tours International offers a 16-day escorted tour of Ireland The Tour of Ireland (known from 1985 to 1992 as the Nissan Classic) is a stage race held in August. The first race debuted in 1953 and ran until 1957. It was revived in 1965 and ran until 1985. In 1985 the 5 day Nissan International Classic took over as the Tour of Ireland. geared toward the first-time visitor, with departures weekly through Oct. 3. Cost is $2,396, including air fare from 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 or Boston; 14 nights' lodgings; most meals, including a medieval banquet at 15th-century Bunratty Castle; a Scottish banquet with bagpipe bagpipe, musical instrument whose ancient origin was probably in Mesopotamia from which it was carried east and west by Celtic migrations. It was used in ancient Greece and Rome and has been long known in India. music in Edinburgh; tea and scones at an Irish farmhouse; a dinner show in London; ferry ride across the Shannon River; cruise on Loch Ness; whisky-tasting tour; sightseeing via motor coach and entrance fees. Information: (800) 243-8687. Fall colors: Maupintour offers an eight-day New England fall foliage tour that starts and ends in Boston and travels through Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). and Vermont. Land-only cost of the tour is $1,600 per person, double occupancy. Departures are from Sept. 29 through Oct. 9. Information: (800) 255-4266. Wine tour: CPC (1) (Central Processing Complex) An IBM mainframe that has two or more central processors (CPs) that share memory. It is the collection of processors, memory and I/O subsystems manufactured with a single serial number, typically all contained in one cabinet. Tours offers two-day getaway tours to Santa Barbara wine country, including two nights' lodging, a day of escorted winery tours, a predinner wine reception, a winery luncheon and two dinners with local wines. Tours are scheduled Aug. 8-10, Sept. 5-7, Oct. 24-26 and Nov. 21-23. Information: (800) 826-3119. So hot it's cool: Merlyn's Journeys offers a Sept. 2-7 getaway to the Oregon mountain country's hot springs for women only. The trip includes campfires, camping and hot springs soaks. Cost for the six-day adventure is $750 and includes van transportation, camping equipment and all meals. Information: (800) 509-9330. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: The classic rail cars of the American Orient Express are featured on Clipper's rail-cruise program this fall. |
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