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We depart Hilton Head Island airport on Tuesday, 3:30 PM and transit through Charlotte and London, to arrive the next day in Istanbul, Turkey at 4:30 PM. We are met and escorted to the Peninsula Hotel, Istanbul (Great Hotel!). Dinner then sleep before starting our 5 days touring this historical city. Turkey is 85% Muslim
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We depart Istanbul at 11:00 AM on the flight to Izmir which is a 1 hour and 15 minuet trip southwest to the Mediterranean. We are met by our guide Oktay Elseve who turns out to be an excellent guide. We drive directly to Ephesus which is a ancient Greek city, built in the 10th
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Our hotel pick-up was at the very early hour of 5:00 AM for the one and a half hour flight back to Istanbul, at 1:20 PM we boarded the fight to Madrid arriving at 4:30 PM. A long way of saying we spent the whole day getting to Spain. We stayed at the Mandarin Oriental
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It’s our last day touring and we travel the 55 miles from Madrid to the old city of Toledo. The city is on a hill, and we arrive at the ancient gate, then start exploring starting with the Jewish district and the Synagogue that was designed to look like a Christian Church. We then wander
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London On Tuesday we board American Airlines in Savannah, GA and after transitioning through Charlotte land in London, England the next morning. Nice job American! We are met by the Huffman Travel representative, whisked through customs and into the waiting limo for the drive to The Browns Hotel. The Browns turns out to be a
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British Pullman Champaign Afternoon Tea After a relaxing Sunday morning we head for Victoria Station to board the “British Pullman” for a train ride in the country side in the style of the Golden Age of Travel. The trip is through the beautiful countryside of Kent and we enjoy our private compartment, elegant service in
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Oxford and Cotswold Our driver Janet picked us up at the Brown’s Hotel, which we were sad to leave behind, it is truly special. As London fades behind we head for the Cotswold region, with its beautiful countryside, with sweeping meadows, rolling hills and honey colored towns. We stop for lunch at a riverside restaurant,
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The “Poldark Mansion” This visit was really the geniuses of our trip to England, in that Marilyn is a HUGE fan of the television series Poldark. The fictitious story of a man who returns from the American Revolutionary war to claim his inherited home and land, in Cornwall in Southwest England. The estate where it
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The Pantanal Cuiaba and Rio Claro Lodge On August 21, 2024 I enbarked on a journey to the Pantanal of Brazil to photograph some of the over 580 bird species, assorted reptile, anphibian and animals but in particular the Jaguars that inhabit this unique region. I was joined on the Van Os Photo Safari by
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Porto Jofre Monday August 26, we travel further southward deeper into the heart of the northern Pantanal. Our destination is the end of the 90-mile-long dirt road, Porto Jofre on the Cuiaba river. We make some stops and photograph a variety of creatures, including an Ostridge type big bird, a up-close hawk and a relatively
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