Posts in Tag: City Tours
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Melbourne – A Most Victorian City
This is my second post from a March 2026 tour of Australia with Adventures Abroad. In the first post I gave an overview of the entire trip from Melbourne to Sydney with stops at Canberra, Cairns, Darwin, Alice Springs and Uluru. In this post I’m going to examine the things that make Melbourne perhaps the […]
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Auckland – New Zealand’s Oceanic Metropolis
Almost 40% of all the people in New Zealand live in the Auckland metro area, making it one of the most dominant cities vis a vis the country as a whole and the city next in line, of any country in the world. Christchurch, the second largest city at just under 400,000 is less than 25% […]
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Valparaiso – Chile’s Faded Superstar
This is my third post from Chile and the first one that deals specifically with a day on the Adventures Abroad itinerary. In the first post I described a day in Santiago with local guide Chris Whatmore that I recommended as a warm up for the AA tour. In the second I gave an overview […]
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Saigon – Definitely Not Ho Chi Minh City
In the last post we wrapped up our time in central Vietnam by visiting the fascinating city of Hue and now it’s time to head to the south of the country for our final few days of this wonderful Adventures Abroad tour. Accordingly we take the 90 minute flight from Hue to Ho Chi Minh […]
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Santiago with Chris Whatmore
This is the first of what will be many posts from the South American country of Chile which Alison and I will tour from almost top to bottom including a visit to Easter Island with our preferred tour company Adventures Abroad. However, before meeting up with the other members of our group we have come […]
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Hue – Vietnam’s Royal City
The Adventures Abroad tour of Vietnam continues to go from one highlight to another with the last two stops Hoi An and My Son both being UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Well the hits just keep on coming as we head for our third World Heritage Site in a row, the former royal city of Hue. […]
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Hanoi – Touring Vietnam’s Capital City
In my first post from Vietnam I gave a general overview of the country and fourteen highlights of the tour with Adventures Abroad. In this post I’ll start getting into specifics starting with the capital of Vietnam, Hanoi which is where our tour began after all but one of us on the Laos tour arrived […]
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Bangkok – A Very Quick Overview
This is the first of what will be a fair number of posts from a trip to Southeast Asia in March, 2023. Most of it was centred around a 27 day tour of Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia with our usual tour provider Adventures Abroad. However, as this was our first foray into this part of […]
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Switzerland with Adventures Abroad
Alison and I have just returned from our latest overseas excursion, a two week walking/hiking tour of Switzerland with Adventures Abroad which was quite a departure from our previous trip on a passenger/freighter in French Polynesia. The two trips could not have been more different in every aspect but one, we loved them both. What […]