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This exciting tour studies the rich history and archaeology of the gateway to Asia, Arabia and Africa. Syria and Jordan have experienced the ebb and flow of Near Eastern history - Babylonia, Assyria, Persia, Greece, Rome, the Nabatean Arabs, Parthia, the Byzantines, the Ummayads, Abbasids, Crusaders and Ayyubids. All have left a mark here. |
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Holland in Bloom - Spring Flower Cruise
: May 2009
See Holland at its most vibrant time, the spring tulip extravaganza. Our exclusive cruise, aboard the privately chartered luxury river boat Charlemagne which has been so popular with our Alumni travellers, will take a party of just 32 along windmill-lined rivers and through charming Dutch towns to the spectacular flower auction in Aalsmeer. |
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Alexander's Path - Lycia & Pamphylia Cruise : May 2009
This cruise is full of theatres, tombs and the beautiful Taurus Mountains which in Lycia rise from the sea to heights of over 10,000 feet. It's one of our most popular itineraries because of the ancient sites and outstanding scenery. The sea passage has changed little over the millennia, with dramatic peaks and deep-set inlets s making this a spectacular route. |
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Istanbul, Troy & an Aegean Cruise : May 2009
From Constantinople, city of dreams, drive to the Hellespont
and to Troy. Visit Assos, Pergamum and Smyrna, Homer’s
birthplace, then embark our private yachts and cruise
via Ephesus, Priene, Miletus and Didyma, Aegean Turkey
preserves some of the finest Classical sites, their ruined
theatres and temples standing among olive and myrtle groves |
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The Best of Borneo - Sabah & Sarawak : July 2009
An incredible journey to the exotic island of Borneo. This lush forested region, criss-crossed with rivers and punctuated with sheltered valleys, is one of the most untouched wildlife habitats in Asia, and home to an amazing diversity of life, including orangutans and an fantastic array of birds which the share with the indigenous tribes-people who still live in the ancient ways. |
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Magical Madagascar: August 2009
For the first time, IMA is delighted to offer this very special tour to the unique Island of Madagascar. Uninhabited by man until only 2000 years ago, Madagascar is the ‘lost’ island. With 80% of Madagascar’s species being endemic, only here is it possible to witness what happens when a large isolated island is left to evolve without big predators for 165 million years. |
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Wine, Whales & Wild Flowers - S. Africa: September 2009
The Cape is the Mediterranean of the southern Hemisphere - balmy weather, blue seas, fine wines and spectacular scenery. The Cape is famous for Cape Dutch homesteads with collections of art and exquisite furniture. We visit in springtime, when the Namaqualand flora blooms and the countryside is covered in vast carpets of indigenous wildflowers. |
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IMA is thrilled to feature an exclusive tour to Peru, the archaeological, cultural and ecological jewel of Latin America. Countless generations have left fascinating ancient sites from 2000BC to the Conquistadores, Peru features breathtaking scenery, with snow-capped mountains, stunning lakes and dense jungle. There is also an extension to the Amazon River. |
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2009 is the 200th anniversary of Cambridge graduate Charles Darwin’s birth & also marks 150 years since ‘On the Origin of Species’. Along with the University’s Darwin Festival, we are delighted to offer a special opportunity to follow in the great naturalist’s footsteps to the Galapagos and experience first hand the ecology which contributed to his theory of evolution. |
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