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ON JAN. 6, 1994, the
Royal Viking Queen will
embark on a 7)-day ‘‘Circle
South . America’? voyage
hosted and created by
oceanographer Jean-Michel
Cousteau.

The journey, is also divided into
five cruise segments ranging from
six to 20 days.

Passengers will have the op-
portunity to sail.in the wake of
Charles Darwin's Beagle, stride in
the steps. of the conquistadors,
atid experience the seductive
charms of Rio de Janeiro as well

‘as the complexity and beauty of
the natural world.

From the Amazon’s rare
fresh-water pink dolphins to the
stoical’ countenance of Machu
Picchu, from the solitude of
Devil’s Island to the majesty of

the Amazonian rainforest, no
more than 2!2 passengers will em-
brace the cultural and ecological
wonders of the continent through
the personal experiences of
_ Jean-Michel Cousteau and the
presentations of a specially
selected team of experts.

"The ship will begin her journey
on Jan. 6 with a seven-day seg-
ment titled ‘‘Coast of Gold”? from

“+. San Francisco, and cruise south to

San Diego, Cabo San Lucas and
‘Acapulco, Mexico.

Along the way, the ship may be.

surrounded. by marine life, in-
cluding sea elephant bulls on
Guadalupe Island, breaching

German 1 museums celebrate naughty pleasures

Young and old chocoholics alike
stood tn line holding pieces of

THIS YEAR, two German cities

present two museums dedicated to’

erotic art (Hamburg) and choco-
fate (Cologne).

Opened earlier this year, the
Erotic Art ‘Museum in Hamburg
(Bernhard-Nocht-Str. 69) is the
latest in a long line of museums in
‘Germany specializing in the
unusval.

Located in a restored warehouse.

near the seaport city’s world-
‘famous red fight district, the
Reeperbahn, the museum has
. filled its 2,000-square-metre ex-
hivition space with erotic paint-
ings, sculptures and works of art
on paper dating from 1520 to the
_ present.

Artists represented include
Daumier, Delacroix and
Fragonard as well as such modern
names as Jean Cocteau, Lovis
Corinth, Otto Dix, Tomy Ungerer
anc: John Lennon — more than
1,800 works of art in total.

The: Grotic Art, Museum is open
daily from 10 a.m. to midnight.

When it opens on Qct. 31, Col-
ogne’s Museum Imhoff Stollwerck

will have 2
“exhibition space displaying all you
ever wanted to know about choc-

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,500 square metres of.

44 Along the way, the ship may be

surrounded by marine life,

including sea elephant bulls on
Guadalupe Island...99

California grey whales and hump-
back whales.

As the ship splices the tropical
waters and latitudes, it will begin
ihe second segment of the voyage,
“Mystic Pacific,” an 18-day
cruise from Acapulco to Santiago,
Chile, with a daylight cruise into
Gatun Lake of the Panama Canal.

nis. segment includes: calis at
Guayaquil, Ecuador, Lima
(Callao) in Peru, and Arica and
Antofagasta in Chile.

Passengers can participate in an
optional tour to the natural time
warp of the Galapagos Islands and
trek into the clouds to the legend-
ary Inca ghost city of Machu
Picchu.

As the luxury cruise ship con-
tinues south, she sails from San-
tiago to Rio de Janeiro. on the
third segment of the Circle South
America voyage, a 20-day cruise

-called ‘“‘Cape Horn Discovery.”’

olate — from its cultivation to
chovolate’s significance in ancient
Aztec culture, for Old World no-
bility and in today’s mass market.

Construction of the muscum on
prime municipal land, in the.old
Rhine river harbor close to the
Old Town, was the result of the
raging success of a temporary ex-
hibition mounted about five years
ago, which attracted hundreds of
thousands of visitors.

They came noi least for the
chocolate fountain.

Perts of call include Puerto
Montt, Chile; Ushuaia, Argentina;
Punta Arenas. Chile; a maiden
call at Sea Lion Island and Port
Stanley, Falkland Island;
Montevideo, Uruguay; and
Buenos Aires, Argentina.

In the course of this segment,
the vesse] will enter a moody lab-
yrinth of soaring peaks and
plunging fjords at the end of the
Americas, the stuff that maritime
myths and heroes are made of,
Cape Horn and the roaring '40s.

The relatively small size of the
Royal Viking Queen will enable
her to enter a world only explorers
and a privileged few have seen:
the English Narrows, Chilean
fjords and Isla Angle; the famed
Strait of Magellan and Beagle
Channel with its majestic glaciers.

The fourth leg of the cruise is a
20-day journey {rom Rio to
Bridgetown, Barbados, with calls

waffle ready to into the foun-
tain basin, which was constantly
replenished with warm chocolate
streaming from spouts at its cen-
tre.

(One dip only; for seconds, it
was back to the end of the line
and take a fresh waffle!)

Museum visitors can expect to
dip again, That’s included in the
$8 (DM 10). admission, with the
chocolate fountain now a perma-

at Salvador, Belem, Manaus,
Parintins, and Munguba in Brazil;
Devil's Island in French Guiana;
and Ciudad Guayana in
Venezuela.

Among the innovative land pro-
grams cn the cruise are optional
tours to the Ford rubber planta-
tion, the Ludwig paper plant and
Angel Falls,

As the Royal Viking Queen
crosses the Equator she calls on
the notorious Devil’s Island and
then sails to the independent
island nation of Barbados.

The fifth and final segment of
this enchanting odyssey is a six-
day cruise from Barbados to Ft.
Lauderdale with calls at Cominica,
St. Martin, and Great Stirrup Cay
on the Berry Islands of the
Bahamas.

Passengers participating on the
full 7-day crnise will receive two
complimentary shore excursions:
an “Antarctic Flightseeing”’ tour,
offering fantastic views of the
White Continent with its ice
tower, deep-biue: water and
floating icebergs, and a one-day
visit to the remarkable {guazu
Falls — with its 275 waterfalls, it
is four times the size of Niagara
Falls.

Full cruise fares range from
$53,900 to $95,530 per person,
based on double accupancy.

Cruise segments range from
$4,295 to $29,395 per person,
based on double cccupancy,
depending on the cruise segment
selected.

Prices

include round-trip air

nent fixture.

The Museum Imhoff Stollwerck
will be open daily, Sunday to
Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 6:36 p.m.,
Thursday to Saturday, nocn to 1}
p.m.

For more information cn Ger-
many’s unusual museums, contact
the German National Tourist Of-
fice at 175 Bloor Street East,
North Tower, Suite 604, Toronto,
Ontario M4W 3R8, or call
(416)968-1570.

passengers around S. America

transportation to and from points
of embarkation and debarkation.

For additional information and
reservations, cal! your travel
agent.

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