Lakes and the Riviera: Now That’s Italian

A 12-day tour that visits the Italian Riviera and Lake District leaves Sept. 2. Participants will see Portofino and Camogli on the Italian Riviera and visit Lake Como and Lake Maggiore. Hikes are taken along parts of the Cinqueterre, the five towns on Italy’s northwest coastline that are connected by a hiking trail. Cost: $1,299 per person, double occupancy, including hotels, some meals, guides and ground transportation. Not included: air fare to Italy. Contact: Carlucci’s Italy; telephone (714) 707-5824.

Italy’s Greens

Spend 12 days in Italy Sept. 6, beginning in Milan and ending in Rome, with seven days at a golf resort competing in a variety of tournament formats. The golf package includes three nights at the Hotel Regina in Milan, seven nights at the Gallia Palace Hotel on the Ligurian Sea, green fees for five days of tournament play, a round at Parco di Monza (frequently host to the Italian Open) outside Milan, and guided tours of Milan and Siena. Golf carts are available at an extra cost.

Cost: $4,016 per person, double occupancy including air fare from Los Angeles, hotels, all meals, guided tours and transfers. Extensions to Venice or Lake Como are available. Contact: Ridgewater Partners, 2091 Stratford Place, Santa Barbara, CA 93108; tel. (805) 969-5962.

Classical Turkey

The Classical Alliance of the Western States is offering a three-week tour of Turkey June 5. Participants will visit Ankara, Cappadocia, Adana, Antioch, Tarsus, Iconium, Konya, Antalya, Perga, Aspendos, Laodicea, Hierapolis, Pumukkale, Aphrodisias, Ephesus, Izmir, Sardis, Philadelphia, Pergamum, Troy and Istanbul.

Cost: $3,298 per person, double occupancy, including hotels, most meals and private motor coach for land travel. There is an optional stopover in London. Contact: Charles Smith, Program Coordinator, Classical Alliance of the Western States, P.O. Box 3494, Anaheim, CA 92803, tel. (714) 956-2067.

Big Pie in the Sky

The Montana Historical Society is sponsoring two tours for history buffs. A five-day Montana Ghost Town with a side trip to Yellowstone Park leaves July 19 and begins in Helena, Montana’s capital city. Members visit the ghost towns of Elkhorn and Bannack with an overnight stay in Virginia City, which includes dinner and an Old Opera Playhouse performance. The group will see preserved 19th-Century houses, saloons, shops and jailhouses as well as old mining operations. A Montana historian will escort the group and the welcome reception on the first day will include a guest speaker on Montana’s Gold Rush era. The tour will end with a day in Yellowstone Park and overnight at Mammoth Hot Springs. The land-only tour costs $699 per person, double occupancy.

The second tour explores the Lewis and Clark Trail for six days beginning Sept. 8. The group will travel with a Montana historian visiting landmarks of the Lewis and Clark Trail. Tours are taken of Dillon, the Bitterroot Valley, Missoula, Seeley Lake and Great Falls. The last day includes a float trip on the Missouri River near Great Falls to Fort Benton. Cost: $989 per person, double occupancy, including accommodations, some meals and tours. Not included: air fare to Montana. Contact: Marilyn Evans, Trails West Tours, Helena, MT 59601; tel. (800) 735-4443.

Tall Tale of a Ship

A 17-day “Indonesian Wildlife Adventure” takes in the isles of the Java and Banda seas May 26 and June 30. Guests will cruise the Komodo Archipelago in a turn-of-the-century, tall-masted sailing ship. The 124-foot-long ship will venture from island to island, where tour members will hike game trails in search of the Komodo dragon, wild water buffalo, monkeys, hornbills and other wildlife for which the region is renowned. The ship will stop frequently for snorkeling and diving at coral reefs. The itinerary includes Komodo, Bali, Sumba, Java, Yogyakarta and Solo, and the ancient monument of Borobudur. Trip guests will also fly to Borneo for orangutan encounters. A photographers’ trip is also scheduled for Aug. 18.

Cost: from $3,350 per person, double occupancy, including ship cabin and meals. Not included: air fare to Indonesia. Contact: Bolder Adventures, P.O. Box 1279-P, Boulder, CO 80306; tel. (800) 642-2742.

Tangle of Culture

Focus on highbrow culture in a “New England Experience” tour that begins July 23 and Aug. 13 for eight days. Both tours feature music by the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, theater at the Berkshire Theater Festival and visits to some of the area’s museums and galleries, including the Shelburne Museum in Vermont. A maximum of eight guests per tour will spend three nights at Blantyre in Lenox, Mass.; two nights at the 1811 House in Manchester, Vt., and two nights at the Inn at Shelburne Farms on the shore of Lake Champlain.

Cost: $2,765 per person, double occupancy, including accommodations (plus a night in Boston at the Lenox Hotel on the Saturday preceding the tour), all meals, transportation, entrance to all events and attractions, taxes, gratuities and guides. Not included: air fare to Boston. Contact: Winding Roads Tours, 249 Ball Pond Road, New Fairchild, CT 06812; tel. (800) 240-4363.

English Garden

Visit the gardens and waterways of Britain June 24-July 6. The trip starts with excursions to gardens in and around London before continuing by train to Wales. Gardens such as Bodnant and Stourhead are visited, as well as smaller private ones with special plant varieties and interesting uses of a pond or fountain. A preview of the Hampton Court Flower Show is included.

Maximum number of participants is 17 and the pace is relaxed with several nights stay in each hotel. Overnights are in London, Bath, Wales and Marlow on Thames. Guests get a chance to fly fish for trout in the Usk River.

Cost: $3,395 per person, double occupancy, including hotels, some meals and tours. Not included: air fare to London. Contact: Ingatours, (800) 581-0911. (Call in the morning. It is eight hours later in Britain.)

Wildlife Safari

Two 17-day trips to Tanzania leave June 30-July 16 and Aug. 4-20. Included is a six-day climb of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak, and an eight-day wildlife safari to Serengeti Park, Ngorongoro Crater, Tarangire Park and Lake Manyara.

Cost: $4,790 per person, double occupancy, including air fare from New York, accommodations, all meals, ground transportation and guides. Contact: Wanderlust Adventures, 65 Clarkson, Suite 207, Denver, CO 80218; tel. (800) 572-1592.

Old Europe

Explore the arts, crafts, churches and monasteries of Bulgaria, central Romania and northern Hungary Aug. 29 through Sept. 14. In Sofia, Bulgaria; Bucharest, Romania, and Budapest, Hungary, the museums of Art and Ethnography will be visited.

Cost: $2,600 per person, double occupancy, including accommodations, two meals daily, land transportation, and admission to all museums and exhibits, and travel insurance. Not included: international air fare. Contact: Peggy Maradudin or Gloria Rasmussen at Anytime Anywhere Travel, 940 S. Coast Drive, Suite 150, Costa Mesa, CA 92626; tel. (800) 542-1888.

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