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See Alaska on small boat tour

BLUEWATER Adventures offers trips aboard smaller boats into
spectacular wilderness logations. The North $
recently inchided in the San Francisco Examiner's special Sunday
travel section on B.C. destinations.

Travellers can journcy in style with knowledgeable natu
aboard Coast Guard-inspe ed v € cabins, exte
libraries and wholesome meals are all part of the package on 65-foot
power or 68-foot sail boats. company has offered various itin-
craries to southeast. Alaska, Queen Charlotte Islands and Vancouver
Island since 1974. For more information phone 980-3800.

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oard thé Viking Serenade -

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GENERALLY one associates
Argentina with the pampas,
Patagonia, gauchos, beef, polo
and the tango (a vertical expres-
sion of a horizontal desire).

But against the imposing backdrop of

Andean snow caps shimmering at morc
than 5,000 metres, there is a unique land
of parched, polychrome, eroded valleys
and oasis towns
subtropical vegetation and exuberant
birdsong.

Northwest Argentina, which compris-
es the provinces of Jujuy, Salta, Tucuman,
Santiago del Estero, Catamarca and La
Rioja (three of which border the he

land provinee of Cordoba), forms a fairly -

uniform territory from a scenic, historical,
archacological and even geological view-
point.

Crystal Cruise

with a cornucopia of

Along the Inca road dating, from
1480, the old colonial provinces of the
colorful, mountainous northwest region
are where Argentina’s history started and
its destiny as an independens nation was
sealed.

The provinces of Tucuman, Salta and
Jujuy were Spain’s first major 1 6th-centu-

mineral-rich mountain chains were origi-
nally used as pasture for mules bred for
use by the Spaniards in the mines of Peru,
Chile snd Bolivia.

After Argentina’s deciaration of inde-
pendence was signed in Tucuman on July
9, 1816, some townspeople rejected the!
Span h heritage, replacing their colonial
architecture with French and Italian
structures. Founded in 1581, Salta City,
however, has kept many colonial land-

marks. .

Strategically lecated with road and rail
links to three countries, Saltz has climates
varying from temperaw, subtropical. i
Salta City and the Lerma ‘alley and dry
continental in the Puna (platewi:) high:
lands, to dry temperate in the Calchaqge
valleys and subtropical in the southem’
Chaco region. :

Tucuman, known as the “G; rden f
the Nation”, ‘originally derived most of its
income from sugar cane, but today has
more diversified agricultural base with
tus fruits being a major resource.

Notable among Salta’s artractions are
the “archacclogical ruins of Qi
fast aboriginal stronghold against. the:
Spaniards; the road from San Mi
Tucuman to Taff de’ Valle which passes

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. VANCOUVER TO HONOLUL

. YOKOHAMA TO BEIJING
(plus 3 nights complimentary

‘ACAPULCO TO SAN JUAN.
. HONOLULU TO ACAPULCO.
(Christmas and New Year's cruise)

1999 SAILINGS:
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MAR 30. MUMBAI TO ATHENS ...

{plus 2 nights pre-cruise complimentary i

APR 75...... « ATHENS TO LISBON.

{plus 2 nights pre-cruise complimentary in Athens)

LISBON TO SOME.

JALTIC (LONDON TO COPENHAGEN

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Group Rate Discounts
Additional Canadian Resident Dis
$400 USD Shipboerd credit per cabin

(based on double occupancy)

COMUNE

Prepaid gratuities (value $9.50 USD per day per person)

Additional 5%: discount if paid in fal 6 months priar to sailing

Prices from $2210 USD

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