TOURS ETC. : SWIM WITH DOLPHINS ON CARIBBEAN CRUISE.Byline: Daily News Natural Habitat Adventures offers travelers a chance to swim with dolphins on an eight-day tour to the Caribbean. Dolphin-watch cruises aboard the Jennifer Marie, an eight-passenger schooner schooner (sk  `nər), sailing vessel, rigged fore-and-aft, with from two to seven masts. , are scheduled June 16-23, June 27-July 4, July 12-19, July 30-Aug. 6 and Aug. 27-Sept. 3. Tours begin in Fort Lauderdale Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. . Cost ranges from $1,795 to $1,995 per person, depending on accommodations, and includes meals, lodgings and guides. Air fare to Florida is not included. Information: (800) 543-8917. Family campout: The Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Natural History Museum offers a family camping trip to Leo Carrillo Leo Antonio Carrillo (August 6 1880 – September 10 1961), was an actor, vaudevillian, political cartoonist, and conservationist. Biography Family roots State Beach, north of Malibu, June 14-16. Cost is $100 for adults, $65 for children, and includes campground accommodations, guided hikes and meals. Information: (213) 744-3535. Go it alone: The Single Persons Travel Club offers a seven-night cruise to Alaska's Inside Passage for single travelers Sept. 1-8. The club offers roommate matching to avoid paying single-supplement costs. Cruise price ranges from $1,429 to $1,529. Information: (800) 621-8911. Far East journey: New Act Travel offers a 14-day tour of Indonesia and Singapore departing July 21 that includes two special events in Yogyakarta, Java: a private dinner with classical Javanese dance performance at the home of Queen Ratu Anom and a performance of the Ramayana ballet at the Hindu temple A Hindu temple (Sanskrit: mandira), is a house of worship for followers of Hinduism. They are usually specifically reserved for religious and spiritual activities. A Hindu temple can be a separate structure or a part of a building. of Prambanan. Cost is $3,150 per person, double occupancy, and includes roundtrip air fare from Los Angeles or San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , all flights within Asia, hotels and some meals. Information: (800) 564-1389. Llama llama (lä`mə), South American domesticated ruminant mammal, Lama glama, of the camel family. Genetic studies indicate that it is descended from the guanaco. treks: Yellowstone Llamas offers three-, four- and five-day hikes and camping with backpacking llamas through Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park Yellowstone National Park, 2,219,791 acres (899,015 hectares), the world's first national park (est. 1872), NW Wyo., extending into Montana and Idaho. It lies mainly on a broad plateau in the Rocky Mts., on the Continental Divide, c. . Cost is $160 per day per person, and includes meals, airport pickup in Bozeman, Mont., ground transportation to and from the trail, camping equipment, guides. Air fare to Montana is not included. Information: (406) 586-6872. Rhine cruise: Kuoni Tours offers a 13-day tour combining sightseeing in London, Switzerland and a five-day cruise on the Rhine River from Cologne, Germany, to Basel, Switzerland, aboard the Deutschland. Tours depart on alternate Wednesdays May 1-Oct. 2. Cost, including round-trip air fare from Los Angeles, is $3,215 per person, double occupancy, and includes hotels, daily breakfast, all cruise meals, land transportation and tour guides. Information: (800) 858-8587. Get cultured: IST Cultural Tours offers a 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 tour package centered around Lincoln Center's Festival '96, a series of 60 performances of music, dance and theater scheduled to run July 22-Aug. 11. Cost is $799 per person, double occupancy, and includes four nights' lodgings, lunch at the French Culinary Institute  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . plus a chef's tour of the kitchen, a behind-the-scenes tour of Lincoln Center that includes meetings with backstage professionals and rehearsal attendance, plus priority seating at three performances. Air fare to New York is not included. Information: (800) 833-2111. Saddle your elephant: Ivanhoe Travel offers 17-day tours of Vietnam that includes stops in Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, city (1997 pop. 5,250,000), on the right bank of the Saigon River, a tributary of the Dong Nai, Vietnam. (Saigon), the Mekong Delta, the central highland towns of Ben Ma Thuot and Plei Ku, China Beach and Danang, the former imperial capital of Hue, the French-style capital of Hanoi and Ha Long Bay. Touring will be by plane, motorcoach, boat train and elephant back. Departures are scheduled June 10 and Sept. 26. Cost starts at $3,595 per person, double occupancy, and includes roundtrip air fare from Los Angeles, sightseeing, shows, hotels and meals. Groups are limited to 20 people. Information: (619) 272-8747. Bike Canada: Easy Rider Tours offers two bicycling tours of Canadian provinces: an eight-day tour of Nova Scotia and a seven-day tour of Prince Edward Island Prince Edward Island, province (2001 pop. 135,294), 2,184 sq mi (5,657 sq km), E Canada, off N.B. and N.S. Geography One of the Maritime Provinces, Prince Edward Island lies in the Gulf of St. . Cost of the Nova Scotia tour - scheduled July 12-19 and Aug. 9-16 - is $1,250 per person; cost of the Prince Edward Island tour - scheduled June 24-30, July 22-28 and Aug. 19-25 - is $1,095 per person. Both tours include lodgings and most meals, guides, mechanics, van support and airport transfers. Bike rental is $115. Air fare to Canada is not included. Information: (800) 488-8332. Bike Canada: Easy Rider Tours offers two bicycling tours of Canadian provinces: an eight-day tour of Nova Scotia and a seven-day tour of Prince Edward Island. Cost of the Nova Scotia tour - scheduled July 12-19 and Aug. 9-16 - is $1,250 per person; cost of the Prince Edward Island tour - scheduled June 24-30, July 22-28 and Aug. 19-25 - is $1,095 per person. Both tours include lodgings and most meals, guides, mechanics, van support and airport transfers. Bike rental is $115. Air fare to Canada is not included. Information: (800) 488-8332. CAPTION(S): Photo |
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