• Culinary vacations: FRANCE IN YOUR GLASS - FOOD & WINE with Patricia Wells.
  
  See more cooking vacations on our new QB Culinary page.
  
  
• GLOBAL : ATA: Academic Travel Abroad Program
  Notable partnerships with Smithsonian Journeys, National Geographic
  Expeditions, Study Tours National Trust, Harvard Alumni Association,
  Association of Yale Alumni, Alumni Assoc of University of Michigan,
  American Heritage, Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth,
  The Art Institute of Chicago, Wellesley College Alumnae Assoc,
  UCSB Alumni Association and others, make these specialized
  opportunities worth bookmarking.
  
  
• GLOBAL: INFOHUB Global Destinations
  Specialized Vacations, Weekend Getaways, Unique Stays.
  Destinations are Africa, Asia, Australia, Caribbean, Central America,
  Europe, Middle East, North America, Oceania, and South America.
  Categories are Active Adventure, Affinity, Family, History and Culture,
  Hobby, Nature and Wildlife, Romance, Soft Adventure, Spiritual, Sports.
  
  GOLF:
  
  more golf coming soon
  
• Golf Travel Resort Location Finder
• Connections: A Southern Golf and Vacation Guide
  
  SCUBA:
  
  (A brief word about Australia and the Southern Hemisphere. You don't want to travel there when it's their summer. You want to go there when its summer time in the Northern Hemisphere, which is winter time "down under." Should you go when it's their summer you'll find it's too hot. But that's not the only problem. There's also too many bugs, snakes, and flies. And you won't like that a bit(e). You won't even be able to complain, because opening your mouth might enable a fly or flies to ... well you get the picture.
  
• GLOBAL: Scuba Clubs | Best Scuba Diving Sites
• Aruba: Pelican Adventures is the only dive operator on Aruba offering a 3-tank dive including lunch. They also have lots of other dive options such as 1-tank, 2-tank, reef, wreck and night dives. Dive packages range from 5 dives package to 6 days unlimited diving.
• Australia: Great Barrier Reef
• Australia: Heron Island Scuba and just getting away from it all. If it's good enough for Ringo by gum it's good enough for the rest of us. Those dam starfish are wrecking the reef though.
• Australia: Lizard Island People are smart to come to Lizard Island to scuba, and yes,
  there are places where you find pleasant enough accommodations, even cozy ones.
  
• Australia: Christmas Island National Park & Wildlife Scuba, Fishing, Hiking
• Australia: Queensland Bedarra Island Scuba, Fishing, Hiking
• Australia: Queensland Green Island Resort
• Australia: Queensland (South) Couran Cove Resort Perhaps a little more tame than surrounding resorts, but they do offer some cooking classes that are often on the spicy side which more than makes up for any lack of daring outside the kitchen.
  
• Bahamas: Blackbeard's Cruises offers live aboard diving adventures to the Out Islands of the Bahamas. Reef, wreck, wall, drift, night and shark dives are offered on each trip. Our 3 sailboats; Sea Explorer, Morning Star and Pirate's Lady, depart from Miami for a scuba diving cruise to the Out Islands of the Western Bahamas.

• Bahamas: Stella Maris Resort Club Dive the Conception Island Wall, the first Shark Dive at Shark Reef, and the World's Deepest Blue Hole with one of the longest running dive operations in the Bahamas.

• Bay Islands Honduras: Anthony's Key Resort The resort’s fleet of modern, custom-built dive boats whisk divers to 35 sites located just 5 to 30 minutes away. Coral grows thickly on walls that begin in crystalline waters as shallow as 10 feet deep and drop to the purple depths of the Caribbean.
  
• Bay Islands Honduras: Coco View Resort Scuba divers the world over attest to the great diving, ambience, and professionalism at top rated CoCo View Resort where the Caribbean's most spectacular scuba diving lies literally "a snorkel away from the bar." Note the message board is very active!
  
• Belize: Bay Adventures Bay Adventures is a specialized tour operator offering scuba diving and vacation packages to Cozumel, Belize, and the Cayman Islands. We arrange everything for a great vacation: accommodations, discount airfare & diving, with one stop shopping - Vacations Made Easy!
• Cayman Islands : Bay Adventures
• Cozumel: Bay Adventures
• Costa Rica: Adventure & Dive Tours & Travel
• Fiji : Marlin Bay Resort Good Scuba and Gourmet Food too.
• Fiji : Toberua Island
  
  Live Aboards (better than your regular scuba diving vacation):
  Peter Hughes Diving
  Destinations are the following
  Bahamas | Belize | Galapagos Islands | Komodo, Indonesia | Papua New Guinea
  Grenada and the whales of Silver Bank | Tobago
  
  also more Live Aboards:
  Explorer Ventures on the renowned Caribbean Explorer II ... see scuba diving offer
  more Explore Ventures: M/V Nimrod Explorer
  M/V Turks & Caicos Explorer
  
  
  Skiing and dog sled Rides.
  
• Colorado Guide to Ski Resorts
• GLOBAL: Snow Skiing and Skateboarding
• SkiCentral's new list of International List of Ski Resorts
• Ski Resorts
• about.com's top 10 ski resorts for family skiing.
• Krabloonik's Dog Sled Rides  
  
  We like skiiing, but it's not every day you can get a lunch packed for you an go out into the mountain wilderness for several hours on a handcrafted sled with 11 well trained dogs (and sled guide). Krabloonik, is what we'd call the real thing, the geniuine article, and to learn more about it it, you might read Dan MacEachen's history of Krabloonik, which tells of origins of the sled dogs in the Aspen area at Toklat. The dogs no longer reside at Toklat, but that was their original home. Toklat sits one mile above Aspen, at the foot of a large expanse of land given to Stuart Mace (the great photographer and naturalist, by thelocal indians of the area (that Mace, a white man, earned the respect and trust of the indians enough to be given stewardship of their lands says volumes about him.  I had the honor of meeting him in the 1980s.  His son, Bruce, a former dolphin warden at Monkey Mia (see above), that we had met while in Australia, took us to visit the new home of the dogs: Kraboloonik. Stewart Mace had put the dogs in the care of  Dan MacEschen in the late 70s, and Dan got the idea to start Krabloonik. 
  
  And so it was the Bruce Mace introduced us to Dan MacEeachen on the mountain where Krabloonik is located (not far from Snowmass). We spent the day at Krabloonik, had lunch at their fine restaurant, enjoyed some fine brew, played with the dogs outside, and then had some more brew while we warmed up in front their cozy wood stove. The dogs sleds were all booked, so we just had to watch others climb into sleds and go off on a great adventure. If you're looking for something fun to do, and you're tired of visiting the same old trails, get off the trails altogether, and let these dogs take you were few have been before. Oh yes, while you're at the Krabloonik web site, you might as well read the top ten reasons that dogs don't use computers.
  
  Tennis Tours:
  
  Note that all tours are NOT run the same fashion. Reading through the listings will confirm that tours do not all have the same policies regarding flights and accommodations. Depending upon your requirements, you will find that some will fit your own needs better than others. Shortening or extending your stay and the ease and satisfaction you will experience may depend upon your individual requirements, and that's one reason to look at more than one tour plan. By the way, travel insurance is always a good idea.
  
  
• Grand Slam Tennis Tours | Calendar of Events for 2004
  Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon, U.S. Open, plus more:
  The Italian Open, U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, Pacific Life Open
  Monte Carlo Open, NASDAQ 100 Open, Davis Cup, Tennis Masters Cup
  WTA Tour Championships. About Grand Slam Tennis:
  Fred Wilson and David Kenny formed Grand Slam Tennis Tours in October 1990. Prior to that, Fred was a teaching pro and managed tennis schools at two of the top tennis resorts in the U.S., La Quinta Golf and Tennis Club in La Quinta, California and The Grand Champions Resort in Indian Wells, California. Earlier, starting in 1980, Fred conducted luxury barge trips each summer through France for tennis players, and in 1986 began arranging and conducting tours to the French Open.
  
  
• Steve Furgal's International Tennis Tours is a partner of the USTA, and in business for 27 years. | See the 2003-2004 Calendar
  Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon, U.S. Open, Tennis Masters Series: Rome, Pacific Life Open, Monte Carlo Open, Davis Cup, Tennis Masters Cup. ATP - FRED Cup | FAQs for Steve Furgal's Tours
  
  
• Championship Tennis Tours 2003-2004 has been in business for 16 years.
  Offers Tournament packages AND individual tickets.
  Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon, U.S. Open, NASDAQ 100 Open,
  Pacific Life Open, other ATP events, other WTA events.
  Services | FAQs | SITE MAP
  
  
  Tennis Resorts:
  
  Tennis Resorts
  
• Green Valley Spa Tennis Program
• Texas - John Newcombe Tennis Ranch
• New England Tennis Holidays
• Florida - Harry Hopman’s at Saddlebrook Resort
• Vermont - Topnotch at Stowe (Vermont) Resort and Spa
  
  
  Yoga:
  
  
• White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara California
  It's everywhere now, and everyone is teaching it. Surprise: not all yoga teachers know what they are doing. There's nothing wrong with teaching before you know everything, but taking yoga from such a person ... that's yoga mat of a different color. The vast multitude is always willing to make compromises in selecting a teacher in order to fit yoga into their busy schedules. Ellen DeGeneres' HBO special comes to mind: "Could you speed that up, I've got TBD (Too Busy Disorder) and I'm late for yoga!" 
  
  Injuries can and will happen, and it's good to understand why and find a method that helps prevent injury (even pass along the reasons to the student). The sad fact is that most teachers haven't a clue and won't help you prevent injury. That's why you are more likely to end up injured from yoga than nearly any other form of exercise, and the reasons are not always so obvious.
  
  So we suggest you study from the folks who train yoga teachers, and who have the ability to get you doing your yoga in a manner that will do you some good. That's White Lotus Foundation in beautiful Santa Barbara California. 
  
  
  Wilderness and Wilderness Adventures:
  
  Mountain Gorilla Expedition Offered through Mountain Travel Sobek MTS
  Allen Bechky has been visiting the Virunga region since 1972, and has created this extraordinary expedition based on his many visits with the gorillas. You will have four opportunities to track gorillas in a variety of habitats that range from the jungles of Bwindi's Impenetrable Forest to the bamboo thickets of Sabinyo and the mist-clad heights of Karasimbi Volcano to the celebrated stronghold of the mountain gorillas, that the trip sold out in just a few months! Fortunately, we've been able to add two more departures - January 10-24 and September 11-25, 2004.
  
  
  Marine Mammel Encounter
• Australia: Monkey Mia Dolphin "Resort" Shark Bay Let's not get carried away here by calling this place a "resort." Monkey Mia is really a place to come if you are interested in natural beauty and marine mammals (such as dolphins). If not, better forget it. In fact, it's really a place for marine biologists to hang their hat. You should be interested in dolphins in more than just a casual kind of way. If you're not, go to Sea World!
  
  Located about twelve to fourteen hours drive from the closest real city (Perth), it's also a heck of long drive from where you'll rent your car or caravan. That's right. You are on your own. No one will take you here. But it's still a great place to go if you have the time and inclination, and the interest in dolphins. Western Australia is beautiful, and the real land of the "BIG SKY" and red earth. Lots of friendly people about because the long drive sort of weeds out the riff-raff. You might as well know, however, that there is no "gourmet meals" awaiting you in this paradise. The only good food you'll have is the stuff you pack and bring with you. You can buy junk, but nothing really healthy or tasty. That shouldn't stop you if you are ready for the adventure that awaits you.
  
  Oh yes, watch out for the stone fish! They are venomous and carry enough poison to kill a grown man. Not kidding. You should exercise caution. Shuffle your feet to scare them away. Stepping on one, even in sneakers could prove fatal.  Also see the Shark Bay directory.
  
  
  
• GLOBAL: River Search - Beat Rafting Vacations in the World
  Africa, Asia, Central America, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
• Australia: Christmas Island National Park & Wildlife
• Canada : White Water in Costa Rica
• Costa Rica : Kayaking Vancouver Island
  
• USA: Alaska SOURDOUGH OUTFITTERS Wilderness Adventures
  
• USA: Alaska RIVER RAFTING from the Alaskan Center
  
• USA: West Virginia White Water
• USA: West Best Rafting Vacations in the West
  Family adventures, Green River, Colorado, Grand Canyon 3 day, 6 day
  specialty trips, one day trips, hummer safaris, etc.
  
• USA: California White Water Rafting
• USA: California Whitewater Voyages
• USA: PA/MD/WV White Water Adventures
• Costa Rica : PA/MD/WV White Water Adventures
  
• South America Ecuador -Galapagos Islands Cruising the Galapagos
  South America Patagonia. MTS Mountain Travel Sobek: Explore Patagonia
• South America Peru Machu Picchu 10 Day Adventure
  
  

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