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OT National Geographic - favourite tourism sites
"Calif Bill" wrote in message hlink.net... "Doug Kanter" wrote in message ... "Calif Bill" wrote in message hlink.net... "Don White" wrote in message ... Where's Nobby?....... As reported in today's newspaper... A survey of industry experts in the March edition of 'National Geographic Traveler' has Cape Breton, Nova Scotia as the second top spot in the world to visit. That's right...second only to the Norwegian fiords. No mention of the 'Gulf Coast of Florida'. see *** http://www.herald.ns.ca/stories/2004...ia225.raw.html *** How come I never see a lot of tourist dollars becing cited for Nova Scotia? Where do you look? Lots of places. Magazines, newspapers. As I like to travel. Bay of Fundy is on the short list, and we are looking at Galapago's in January. Bill The Galapago's are great.....was there last April. Wish I would have done the 7/8 days instead of the 4/5. Take lots of film, or lots of memory for the digital. I was disappointed with the NG article, it seemed to rate highly places people don't often go, and downgraded more popular places simply because of their popularity, and not how they managed the numbers. |
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Galapago's
"P.Fritz" wrote in message The Galapago's are great.....was there last April. Wish I would have done the 7/8 days instead of the 4/5. Take lots of film, or lots of memory for the digital. I was disappointed with the NG article, it seemed to rate highly places people don't often go, and downgraded more popular places simply because of their popularity, and not how they managed the numbers. Who did you go with and a cost range? Did you like the tour company and what size boat? Thanks, Bill |
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Galapago's
The main tour operator was Far and Wide, which went bankrupt last June. The
local operator was very good, I forget the name offhand, it was something related to the Equador.....(the one in Peru was Condor) , but can look it up. I'm not sure what the cost of the Galapagos portion was, it was part of a 3 week vacation.......week in Peru, week in Equador, and a week in Brazil. The boat had about 40 cabins, but was only about half full. Even on that size boat, almost everyone The food and service were excellant, and the naturalists were outstanding. Unlike other cruise ships, there was not much night life, because you are really beat by the end of the day. I can get further info if you wish.....it was a couple of vacations ago..........it was a good year economically :-) "Calif Bill" wrote in message hlink.net... "P.Fritz" wrote in message The Galapago's are great.....was there last April. Wish I would have done the 7/8 days instead of the 4/5. Take lots of film, or lots of memory for the digital. I was disappointed with the NG article, it seemed to rate highly places people don't often go, and downgraded more popular places simply because of their popularity, and not how they managed the numbers. Who did you go with and a cost range? Did you like the tour company and what size boat? Thanks, Bill |
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"P.Fritz" wrote in message ... The main tour operator was Far and Wide, which went bankrupt last June. The local operator was very good, I forget the name offhand, it was something related to the Equador.....(the one in Peru was Condor) , but can look it up. I'm not sure what the cost of the Galapagos portion was, it was part of a 3 week vacation.......week in Peru, week in Equador, and a week in Brazil. The boat had about 40 cabins, but was only about half full. Even on that size boat, almost everyone The food and service were excellant, and the naturalists were outstanding. Unlike other cruise ships, there was not much night life, because you are really beat by the end of the day. I can get further info if you wish.....it was a couple of vacations ago..........it was a good year economically :-) "Calif Bill" wrote in message hlink.net... "P.Fritz" wrote in message The Galapago's are great.....was there last April. Wish I would have done the 7/8 days instead of the 4/5. Take lots of film, or lots of memory for the digital. I was disappointed with the NG article, it seemed to rate highly places people don't often go, and downgraded more popular places simply because of their popularity, and not how they managed the numbers. Who did you go with and a cost range? Did you like the tour company and what size boat? Thanks, Bill Thanks. I am looking at the 16 passenger ships. As to Condor in Peru, I used them for Machu Pichu in 2000. Fantastic people to tour with. At least the Cusco and MP part. Bill |
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"Calif Bill" wrote in message link.net... "P.Fritz" wrote in message ... The main tour operator was Far and Wide, which went bankrupt last June. The local operator was very good, I forget the name offhand, it was something related to the Equador.....(the one in Peru was Condor) , but can look it up. I'm not sure what the cost of the Galapagos portion was, it was part of a 3 week vacation.......week in Peru, week in Equador, and a week in Brazil. The boat had about 40 cabins, but was only about half full. Even on that size boat, almost everyone The food and service were excellant, and the naturalists were outstanding. Unlike other cruise ships, there was not much night life, because you are really beat by the end of the day. I can get further info if you wish.....it was a couple of vacations ago..........it was a good year economically :-) "Calif Bill" wrote in message hlink.net... "P.Fritz" wrote in message The Galapago's are great.....was there last April. Wish I would have done the 7/8 days instead of the 4/5. Take lots of film, or lots of memory for the digital. I was disappointed with the NG article, it seemed to rate highly places people don't often go, and downgraded more popular places simply because of their popularity, and not how they managed the numbers. Who did you go with and a cost range? Did you like the tour company and what size boat? Thanks, Bill Thanks. I am looking at the 16 passenger ships. As to Condor in Peru, I used them for Machu Pichu in 2000. Fantastic people to tour with. At least the Cusco and MP part. Bill That was part of this trip as well, Where did you stay in Cusco and Machu Pichu? What did you think of the approach and landing for the Cusco airport? The ship we were on was the Santa Cruz. (my daughter remembered the name.) Some of those small boats looked a little scary. I was thankful being on a larger boat the night we moved from one end of the island chain to the other.....going against the current/wind......it was the only time in my life I have ever had any motion sickness. And the flight to and from the islands were in what appeared to be very old 727's. |
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"Paul Fritz" wrote in message ... snip Thanks. I am looking at the 16 passenger ships. As to Condor in Peru, I used them for Machu Pichu in 2000. Fantastic people to tour with. At least the Cusco and MP part. Bill That was part of this trip as well, Where did you stay in Cusco and Machu Pichu? What did you think of the approach and landing for the Cusco airport? The ship we were on was the Santa Cruz. (my daughter remembered the name.) Some of those small boats looked a little scary. I was thankful being on a larger boat the night we moved from one end of the island chain to the other.....going against the current/wind......it was the only time in my life I have ever had any motion sickness. And the flight to and from the islands were in what appeared to be very old 727's. We stayed at the Monastery in Cusco. 1740 built monastery, converted to a hotel by Orient Expess in 1996. We stayed at the hotel at the top at MP. Refugio? Also an Orient Express hotel. If you want to watch the sunrise at MP, you need to stay at that hotel, or walk up a long ways in the dark. Was fantastic as we had maybe a 1/2 hour alone in the ruins before others arrived. 2 swiss guys hiking the Inca trail. For those who like crooked roads, the dirt roat from the bottom to the top at Machu Pichu does about 20 switchbacks in a 2000 foot climb. I loved the flight from Lima. Full breakfast, and at least a foot of room in front of my knees. I think it was a B-757. We were there in Spring (April) and I asked the hotel manager, how rough the winters were. He laughed and said this is the cold season. For those who have not been to Cusco, this city of about 350,000 people, sits at 11,500' elevation and the weather is about like San Francisco. Begonias and other semi-tropical fauna. They only fly before noon to Cusco as the elevation prevents safe flight after the air temps warm up. Bill |
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"Calif Bill" wrote in message link.net... "Paul Fritz" wrote in message ... snip Thanks. I am looking at the 16 passenger ships. As to Condor in Peru, I used them for Machu Pichu in 2000. Fantastic people to tour with. At least the Cusco and MP part. Bill That was part of this trip as well, Where did you stay in Cusco and Machu Pichu? What did you think of the approach and landing for the Cusco airport? The ship we were on was the Santa Cruz. (my daughter remembered the name.) Some of those small boats looked a little scary. I was thankful being on a larger boat the night we moved from one end of the island chain to the other.....going against the current/wind......it was the only time in my life I have ever had any motion sickness. And the flight to and from the islands were in what appeared to be very old 727's. We stayed at the Monastery in Cusco. 1740 built monastery, converted to a hotel by Orient Expess in 1996. We stayed at the hotel at the top at MP. Refugio? Also an Orient Express hotel. If you want to watch the sunrise at MP, you need to stay at that hotel, or walk up a long ways in the dark. Was fantastic as we had maybe a 1/2 hour alone in the ruins before others arrived. 2 swiss guys hiking the Inca trail. For those who like crooked roads, the dirt roat from the bottom to the top at Machu Pichu does about 20 switchbacks in a 2000 foot climb. I loved the flight from Lima. Full breakfast, and at least a foot of room in front of my knees. I think it was a B-757. We were there in Spring (April) and I asked the hotel manager, how rough the winters were. He laughed and said this is the cold season. For those who have not been to Cusco, this city of about 350,000 people, sits at 11,500' elevation and the weather is about like San Francisco. Begonias and other semi-tropical fauna. They only fly before noon to Cusco as the elevation prevents safe flight after the air temps warm up. Bill We stayed at the same places..Both were great places......It was nice watching the sun set and rise from the ruins. What I thought was wild was the landing at Cusco is descending down the mountain valley with the peaks above you on either side, then doing the 180 around the peak just off the end of the runway. What did you think of the Coca tea? Didn't do much for me. I had never experienced the altitude sickness before that either......Got about an hour's sleep each night it Cusco. I thought the way they switchbacked the trains to get over the mountains was interesting as well.......Did you climb Wachu (sp?) Pichu as well? s |
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