Here are some of the more interesting deals, websites and other travel tidbits that came across our desk recently:
You’ll be hiking above 10,000 feet, sometimes at 12,000 feet, if you tackle the Cotopaxi Trekking package from Adventure Life. The $1,225 per person, double occupancy charge includes six nights’ lodging, most meals and guided hiking in the shadows of Ecuador’s Cotopaxi Volcano. 800-344-6118; tinyurl.com/825cekd
Biosphere Expeditions offers a two-week volunteer trip to Central Asia to help survey snow leopards and their prey. Price for the Aug. 13-25 trip is $2,270 per person. tinyurl.com/yjumqkj
Dolomite Mountains specializes in hiking, biking, climbing and skiing vacations in Italy’s rugged Dolomite Mountains. The company offers set itineraries as well as custom trips. 303-898-3376; dolomitemountains.com
Gohen.com is aimed at women looking for a getaway with their female friends before the big wedding.
Friendly Planet Travel’s Best of China and Yangtze River Cruise starts at $3,234 per person, double occupancy. It includes round-trip air from Los Angeles, nine nights’ lodging, the four-night cruise, internal flights, guided tours and most meals. Highlights include Shanghai, Yichang, Three Gorges, Guilin, Xi’an and Beijing. 800-555-5765; tinyurl.com/77bboug
If you’d like to spend half of November and half of December at sea, the Online Vacation Center has the goods with a trans-Atlantic cruise on Celebrity Cruises. Priced from $4,199 per person, double occupancy, for a veranda stateroom, the cruise includes multiple port stops in Italy and single stops in Egypt, Israel, Turkey, Greece, France, Spain and the Canary Islands. An ocean view cabin is $700 less. 800-780-9002; tinyurl.com/6rvylkx
Check out the 25 neighborhood tours offered to visitors to Chicago at tinyurl.com/74hwmpv.
Enter for a chance to win a six-night Hawaiian vacation from Outrigger Hotels and Resorts at tinyurl.com/85ts5dz.
The 17th annual Vancouver Chinatown Night Market will be held every Friday-Sunday May 18-Sept. 9. vcma.shawbiz.ca
The 12th annual Indian Arts and Culture Festival will be May 26-June 3 in southwest Colorado’s Mesa Verde Country. tinyurl.com/8xlj44z
IndependentTraveler.com gives tips on how to prevent four common travel disasters (lost passport, missed flight, lost luggage, illness or injury) at tinyurl.com/86mwa8s.
Frommers.com lists what it thinks are the five best places for photography in our nation’s capital at tinyurl.com/78tlr7f.
Prices include taxes and fee unless otherwise noted. Deals and websites listed have been checked for availability as of press time, but the listings are not an endorsement.
