HARVARD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION WORLDWIDE TRAVEL PROGRAMS

2015

39836_stamp_art.indd 1 9/22/11 1:54 AM ° Expert Harvard faculty and study leaders ° More than 80 destinations on all seven continents ° Choice of land & rail, cruises, rivers & lakes, and spring break & family adventures

° Travel with fellow Harvard alumni ° Local culture, history, and cuisine at each stop ° Friendships that outlast your trip

“ELBE RIVER” 2014 WITH PROFESSOR WERNER SOLLORS

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COVER PHOTOGRAPHY: CHRISTOPHER MICHEL MBA ’98, PRAYER FLAGS IN BHUTAN (SEE PAGE 17 FOR TRIP DETAILS)

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CENTRAL AMERICA: CROSSING COSTA RICA, A BALKAN MOSAIC 24 GARDEN ISLES & GRAND ESTATES FROM WATERWAYS OF : MOSCOW TO NICARAGUA & EL SALVADOR 3 OCTOBER 1–14, 2015 HONFLEUR TO PORTSMOUTH ON SEA CLOUD II 17 ST. PETERSBURG ON VOLGA DREAM II 19 FEBRUARY 2–13, 2015 LEGENDARY TURKEY 25 JUNE 6–14, 2015 JUNE 11–21, 2015 ART, ARCHAEOLOGICAL & ARCHITECTURAL OCTOBER 3–17, 2015 WILD GALÁPAGOS ON ISABELA II 18 THE GREAT JOURNEY THROUGH EUROPE: THE TREASURES OF MEXICO CITY 4 MYSTICAL INDIA 25 JUNE 8–16, 2015 NETHERLANDS, GERMANY, FRANCE & SWITZERLAND 19 FEBRUARY 18–23, 2015 OCTOBER 8–25, 2015 MACHU PICCHU TO THE GALÁPAGOS ON CORAL II 18 JUNE 26–JULY 6, 2015 A HISTORY OF EUROPEAN EXPLORING AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND 27 JUNE 9–23, 2015 THE ENCHANTING DOURO RIVER ON AMAVIDA 24 IN LONDON & PARIS 4 OCTOBER 17–NOVEMBER 7, 2015 THE BALTIC’S AMBER COAST: COPENHAGEN SEPTEMBER 26–OCTOBER 6, 2015 MARCH 13–21, 2015 EASTERN & ORIENTAL EXPRESS: BANGKOK TO ST. PETERSBURG ON SEA CLOUD II 20 A WEEK IN BUENOS AIRES 5 TO SINGAPORE TO BALI 28 JULY 13–24, 2015 SPRING BREAK & MARCH 13–21, 2015 OCTOBER 22–NOVEMBER 3, 2015 EXPEDITION ON 50 YEARS OF VICTORY 21 FAMILY ADVENTURES THE ARABIAN PENINSULA: OMAN, THE EMIRATES BEST OF PATAGONIA: BUENOS AIRES, SANTIAGO, EL JUNE 25–JULY 9, 2015 GREECE FOR STUDENTS & ALUMNI 6 & QATAR 5 CALAFATE & TORRES DEL PAINE NATIONAL PARK 29 CRUISING RUSSIA’S & MARCH 13–21, 2015 MARCH 14–26, 2015 NOVEMBER 6–19, 2015 ’S NORTH ON SERENISSIMA 22 INDONESIA: MAGICAL ISLANDS OF JAVA & BALI 7 JULY 17–27, 2015 TURKEY FOR STUDENTS & ALUMNI 6 MARCH 13–21, 2015 APRIL 15–30, 2015 CRUISES ALASKA’S & THE INSIDE PASSAGE: THE ARTS IN AMERICA’S HEARTLAND: JUNEAU TO VANCOUVER ON L’AUSTRAL 22 FAMILY CHINA ADVENTURE 14 CRYSTAL BRIDGES & KANSAS CITY 8 TAHITI & FRENCH POLYNESIA ON PAUL GAUGUIN 3 JULY 18–25, 2015 JUNE 27–JULY 9, 2015 FEBRUARY 12–22, 2015 APRIL 15–19, 2015 THE LEGENDARY VOYAGE OF & 23 FAMILY TURKEY ADVENTURE 14 TURKEY’S TREASURES 9 OPUS MEDITERRANEO: A MUSICAL JOURNEY THE ARGONAUTS ON ARTEMIS JUNE 27–JULY 9, 2015 APRIL 17–MAY 1, 2015 FROM ROME TO LISBON ON CORINTHIAN 7 AUGUST 17–29, 2015 FAMILY IRELAND ADVENTURE 14 APRIL 10–21, 2015 HOLLAND & BELGIUM: AMSTERDAM & BEYOND 11 TURKEY’S IONIAN & TURQUOISE COASTS JUNE 28–JULY 6, 2015 MAY 2–11, 2015 AZORES TO PORTUGAL: ON VARIETY VOYAGER (PLUS CAPPADOCIA) 26 A FAMILY ADVENTURE IN SAILING THE ATLANTIC ON SEA CLOUD II 8 TORONTO: THE QUEEN CITY 11 OCTOBER 13–25, 2015 MACHU PICCHU & THE AMAZON 15 APRIL 16-26, 2015 MAY 6–10, 2015 NORTH AFRICA THROUGH THE CENTURIES JULY 1–11, 2015 AUSTRALIA’S KIMBERLEY: VILLAGE LIFE IN DORDOGNE 13 ON CORINTHIAN 26 JOURNEY TO THE LANDS OF GODS & HEROES: VOYAGE TO THE OUTBACK ON OCEANIC DISCOVERER 9 MAY 14–22, 2015 OCTOBER 14–25, 2015 A FAMILY ADVENTURE ON ARETHUSA 15 APRIL 24–MAY 8, 2015 JULY 6–17, 2015 SILK ROAD JOURNEY: ULAANBAATAR TO ISTANBUL 13 CRUISING PATAGONIA’S CHILEAN FJORDS THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA: ATHENS TO NICE MAY 14–JUNE 7, 2015 ON VIA AUSTRALIS 27 TANZANIA FAMILY ADVENTURE 15 ON ISLAND SKY 10 OCTOBER 20–NOVEMBER 2, 2015 DECEMBER 26, 2015–JANUARY 6, 2016 SOUTHERN AFRICA BY PRIVATE PLANE 16 APRIL 27–MAY 10, 2015 MAY 21–JUNE 8, 2015 SPAIN’S MEDITERRANEAN COAST: TRADE ROUTES OF COASTAL IBERIA: BARCELONA TO MÁLAGA ON SEA CLOUD 28 HIMALAYAN KINGDOMS: TIBET, NEPAL & BHUTAN 17 LISBON TO BARCELONA ON TERE MOANA 10 OCTOBER 25–NOVEMBER 4, 2015 MAY 31–JUNE 14, 2015 MAY 1–9, 2015 INDIA, SRI LANKA & THE MALDIVES ON ISLAND SKY 29 TRANS-SIBERIAN BY PRIVATE TRAIN: MOSCOW TRANSATLANTIC VOYAGE ON SILVER WHISPER 12 NOVEMBER 27–DECEMBER 14, 2015 TO ULAANBAATAR (AND THE NAADAM FESTIVAL) 20 MAY 4–16, 2015 JUNE 29–JULY 13, 2015 TRANSPACIFIC JOURNEY ON SILVER SHADOW 12 MOUNT EVEREST BASE CAMP TREK 21 SEPTEMBER 16–OCTOBER 2, 2015 OCTOBER 26–NOVEMBER 12, 2015 THE BRITISH ISLES & IRELAND: VOYAGE TO DISCOVERING EASTERN EUROPE 23 GREEN & GENTLE LANDS ON CORINTHIAN 16 SEPTEMBER 24–OCTOBER 10, 2015 MAY 17–28, 2015

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2 CENTRAL AMERICA: CROSSING COSTA RICA, NICARAGUA TAHITI & FRENCH POLYNESIA ON PAUL GAUGUIN & EL SALVADOR FEBRUARY 12–22, 2015 FEBRUARY 2–13, 2015 AIRFARE INCLUDED

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Central America—an isthmus fusing STUDY LEADER: To be announced Spend nine relaxing yet educational nights STUDY LEADER: To be announced North and South America—contains far in Tahiti and French Polynesia, with seven GROUP SIZE: 12 to 22 guests SHIP SIZE: Up to 332 guests more than the beautiful beaches and nights aboard a five-star small ship amid exotic rain forests that most people PRICING: $5,595 DOUBLE/$6,490 SINGLE the islands, atolls, and motus of Tahiti, CO-SPONSORS: Dartmouth College, National imagine. Highlights of this trip include Ra’iatea, Taha’a, Bora Bora, and Mo’orea. Trust for Historic Preservation, Northwestern visiting Tortuguero National Park, nesting This splendid opportunity includes airfare University, among others place of the endangered sea turtle; from Los Angeles and a whole host of PRICING: From $5,815* DOUBLE/$14,215* SINGLE touring the charming colonial cities of complimentary features aboard ship. *PRICE INCLUDES AIRFARE FROM LOS ANGELES. Granada and León; crossing the dramatic You will also spend two nights in Gulf of Fonseca, dotted by islands and Papeete, Tahiti, including an exclusive volcanoes; relaxing at the secluded excursion to the Paul Gauguin Museum. Maculís Beach; and exploring the unique Post-program options in a deluxe pre-Columbian Maya site of Joya de seaside resort on Mo’orea or Bora Bora Cerén, the “Pompeii of Central America.” are offered. Enjoy the region’s soaring mountains, scenic coffee farms, spectacular wildlife, stunning lakes, and tasty cuisine.

TO BOOK A TRIP, CALL 800-422-1636 OR VISIT ALUMNI.HARVARD.EDU/CATALOG 3 ART, ARCHAEOLOGICAL & ARCHITECTURAL TREASURES A HISTORY OF EUROPEAN FASHION IN LONDON & PARIS OF MEXICO CITY MARCH 13–21, 2015 FEBRUARY 18–23, 2015

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Mexico City boasts an enormous STUDY LEADER: To be announced Trace the threads of European sartorial STUDY LEADER: To be announced repository of art and architectural history on privileged visits in London and GROUP SIZE: 15 to 30 guests GROUP SIZE: 15 to 25 guests treasures that span the centuries. Paris. In London, enjoy exclusive access Scattered throughout its urban core PRICING: $3,995 DOUBLE/$4,690 SINGLE to the workroom and livery department PRICING: $7,995 DOUBLE/$9,445 SINGLE are oases of beauty, from the colorful of Henry Poole & Co., the first Savile murals adorning public buildings to Row tailor, and enjoy afternoon tea with the domiciles of Frida Kahlo and a British designer. Tour the extensive Dolores Olmedo. Great architecture and textile collections of the abounds, from the soaring pyramids Victoria and Albert Museum, including of Teotihuacán, to the modernist the special exhibition Alexander McQueen: creations of Luis Barragán, to the city’s Savage Beauty, and explore Elizabethan sparkling new museums. Stay at the theatrical costume at the Globe Theatre. five-star Gran Hotel Ciudad de Mexico, Travel by high-speed Eurostar railway housed in a dramatic art nouveau to Paris to see the recently reopened palace, perfectly located in the historic Musée Galliera, offering three centuries center. Enjoy sumptuous meals at of fashion history, and the famed restaurants, which provide a sampling Chanel boutique, with its mirrored of Mexico’s wide-ranging cuisine. staircase, on the Rue Cambon.

4 A WEEK IN BUENOS AIRES THE ARABIAN PENINSULA: OMAN, THE EMIRATES & QATAR MARCH 13–21, 2015 MARCH 14–26, 2015

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Renowned for its geographic setting, STUDY LEADER: To be announced Experience Arabia’s rich past and vibrant STUDY LEADER: WILLIAM GRANARA is the grand avenues, old-time cafés, famed present. Begin in the United Arab Emirates Professor of the Practice of Arabic on the GROUP SIZE: 12 to 24 guests museums, and distinctive architecture, for a privileged look at Art Dubai, the Gordon Gray Endowment, director of Modern Buenos Aires is often called the “Paris PRICING: $3,980 DOUBLE/$4,890 SINGLE Middle East’s largest contemporary art Language Programs, and director of the Center of South America.” This seven-day sojourn show. Continue to Abu Dhabi to explore for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard. He is will give you the chance to explore the Masdar City, enjoy lunch on Yas Island, the former executive director of the Center many attractions of this exciting capital and visit the splendid Sheikh Zayed Grand for Arabic Study at the American University city. Immerse yourself in the gaucho Mosque. In Oman, discover ancient history in Cairo and the former director of the Arabic tradition on a special visit to a private at the Bait Al Zubair Museum, marvel at Field School of the U.S. Department of State estancia (cattle ranch) in the Pampas; the massive Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque in Tunis, Tunisia. He has traveled extensively stroll down the River Plate waterfront in Muscat, and explore the lively market in throughout the Middle East and North Africa. and through beautiful parks; explore the oasis city of Nizwa. Conclude in Doha, GROUP SIZE: 15 to 25 guests the city’s great museums, art galleries, Qatar, to view the collections at the and architecture; and observe the newly Museum of Islamic Art. PRICING: $11,895 DOUBLE/$14,545 SINGLE restored Teatro Colón opera house. There is also plenty of time to explore on your own.

TO BOOK A TRIP, CALL 800-422-1636 OR VISIT ALUMNI.HARVARD.EDU/CATALOG 5 OUR POPULAR SPRING BREAK PROGRAM TO GREECE IS BACK IN 2015! PLUS, WE ARE EXCITED TO OFFER SPRING BREAK TRIPS AN ADDITIONAL PROGRAM TO TURKEY!

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HAA spring break trips are specially designed for Harvard students and alumni to travel together. They provide meaningful and accessible travel opportunities to students and expose alumni travelers to the Harvard students of today. Special rates are available for all students, and there are travel scholarship opportunities for current students (the HAA collaborates with the Financial Aid Office to establish need). Although shorter and less expensive than a typical HAA GREECE FOR STUDENTS & ALUMNI TURKEY FOR STUDENTS & ALUMNI trip, these programs—led by Harvard professors— MARCH 13–21, 2015 MARCH 13–21, 2015 contain the same educational content you would Uncover Classical Greece through its most important From the bazaars and mosques of Istanbul, to the expect from a Harvard travel program. A diverse archaeological sites and museums. Enjoy exclusive ancient site of Ephesus, to the stunning landscape audience of students, alumni, and expert leaders access to the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies of Cappadocia, explore the highlights of this enlivens discussion and educational exchange. in Nafplion and learn about current work by Harvard fascinating nation positioned at the crossroads students and professors. between East and West.

“ More than anything else, it was STUDY LEADER: GREGORY NAGY PhD ’66 is the Francis Jones STUDY LEADER: To be announced Professor of Classical Greek Literature and a professor the wealth of people that Harvard GROUP SIZE: Up to 30 guests of comparative literature at Harvard. draws together that defined PRICING: To be announced the trip. The group was all the GROUP SIZE: Up to 30 guests more interesting for its truly PRICING: To be announced intergenerational dynamic.” — Josh Blecher-Cohen ’16 (2014 spring break scholarship recipient)

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OPUS MEDITERRANEO: A MUSICAL JOURNEY FROM ROME INDONESIA: MAGICAL ISLANDS OF JAVA & BALI TO LISBON ON CORINTHIAN APRIL 15–30, 2015 APRIL 10–21, 2015 AIRFARE INCLUDED

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This voyage combines some of the STUDY LEADER: JOHN STEWART AM ’72, EDD ’94, Begin in Ubud and experience the beauty STUDY LEADERS: THEODORE C. BESTOR is loveliest destinations in the western senior preceptor in music emeritus and of the Jatiluwih rice field terraces, a the Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Mediterranean with private performances a lecturer at , is a UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape. Anthropology and director of the Edwin O. of exquisite chamber music in historic composer and music theorist. A composer Participate in cultural workshops and Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at locations ashore. Cruise along the coast of chamber, vocal, and orchestral music, enjoy stunning views of iconic volcanoes. Harvard. He is currently conducting research of Iberia and continue on to the Balearic Stewart taught at the New Conservatory Fly to Yogyakarta, the arts and culture on UNESCO World Heritage programs in Islands, Sardinia, Sicily, and Naples. of Music for many years before joining the center of Java. as the sun rises Asia, and has written widely on contemporary Along the way, encounter monuments faculty at Harvard, where he taught courses over Borobudur, a 9th-century Mahayana Japanese society and culture. His wife, and ruins from across a broad sweep in harmony, counterpoint, composition, Buddhist compound, and visit the VICTORIA BESTOR, is an associate of the of time: Neolithic nuraghi on Sardinia, and musicianship for over 25 years—until 10th-century Prambanan, a UNESCO Reischauer Institute and the executive director stunning ancient sites in Spain and his retirement in 2008. World Heritage site and Indonesia’s largest of the North American Coordinating Council incomparable Pompeii, the very pinnacle Hindu temple. Travel by rail to eastern on Japanese Library Resources. SHIP SIZE: Up to 100 guests of Islamic architecture at the Alhambra Java and explore volcanoes and sulfur GROUP SIZE: 12 to 24 guests in Granada, and charming medieval towns CO-SPONSORS: Columbia University, mines. In Bali, visit the sea temple in Valencia and Sicily. Enjoy natural Smithsonian Journeys, Stanford University of Tanah Lot and take in the traditional PRICING: From $5,796* DOUBLE/$7,091* SINGLE beauty everywhere—from the beaches PRICING: From $9,440 DOUBLE/$13,830 SINGLE markets in Denpasar, Bali’s capital. * PRICE INCLUDES AIRFARE FROM BOSTON. of Sardinia to the palm forest of Elche, Conclude with a three-night stay at AIRFARE FROM LAX OR “LAND ONLY” PRICING IS ALSO AVAILABLE. a UNESCO World Heritage site. the beach resort of Nusa Dua.

TO BOOK A TRIP, CALL 800-422-1636 OR VISIT ALUMNI.HARVARD.EDU/CATALOG 7 THE ARTS IN AMERICA’S HEARTLAND: CRYSTAL BRIDGES AZORES TO PORTUGAL: SAILING THE ATLANTIC ON SEA CLOUD II & KANSAS CITY APRIL 16–26, 2015 APRIL 15–19, 2015

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Travel to the heartland of America— STUDY LEADER: ALICE DELANA is a docent The lush green Azores Islands are dotted STUDY LEADERS: ANIRUDDH PATEL PhD ’96 and Bentonville, Arkansas, and Kansas City, emerita at Harvard’s Fogg Museum. She with picturesque villages, pristine beaches, his wife, JENNIFER BURTON AB ’86, PhD ’97, draw Missouri—to explore outstanding is a graduate of the University of Michigan and volcanic craters. Once a favorite on the complementary perspectives of science museums and noteworthy architecture. and Northeastern University’s master of target of pirates, the islands are now a (Patel) and literature (Burton). Patel’s specialty In Bentonville, spend a day exploring arts in writing program. During her long and peaceful autonomous region of Portugal. is music and the brain, which he researches as the impressive collections and grand distinguished career at Miss Porter’s School Each island has its own special character: an associate professor in psychology at Tufts gardens at the Crystal Bridges Museum in Farmington, Connecticut, where she held São Miguel’s geothermal hot springs, University. Burton’s work focuses on literature, of American Art, designed by Moshe the Margaret Howe Wallace Class of ’27 steaming geysers, and crater lakes; the film, and culture. She is a professor of the Safdie. In Kansas City, tour the Kauffman Teaching Chair in the Arts, DeLana inspired spectacular blue hydrangeas on Faial; practice in film at Tufts. She also produces Center for the Performing Arts, also generations of students in her art history Pico’s whale-hunting-turned-whale- films with her sisters as part of Five Sisters designed by Safdie. Visit the Nelson- and English classes. conservation history; the wine-making Productions. Atkins Museum of Art, noted for its tradition of Terceira, where the rich GROUP SIZE: 12 to 25 guests SHIP SIZE: Up to 76 guests magnificent Bloch Building addition, verdelho wine is produced; and lovely designed by Stephen Holl. Admire PRICING: $2,950 DOUBLE/$3,275 SINGLE Santa Maria, prized for its beautiful CO-SPONSORS: National Trust for Historic the eclectic international collections beaches and warm climate. An optional Preservation, Yale University in the Nerman Museum of Contemporary post-trip extension in Lisbon, Portugal’s PRICING: From $5,995 DOUBLE/$7,995 SINGLE Art and tour the Kemper Museum of capital city, and the nearby royal retreat Contemporary Art. of Sintra is available.

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TURKEY’S TREASURES AUSTRALIA’S KIMBERLEY: VOYAGE TO THE OUTBACK ON OCEANIC DISCOVERER APRIL 17–MAY 1, 2015 AIRFARE INCLUDED APRIL 24–MAY 8, 2015

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From splendid Istanbul and stunning STUDY LEADER: To be announced The Kimberley is a land of towering SHIP SIZE: Up to 65 guests Mount Nemrut to southeastern Turkey’s cliffs, plunging waterfalls, ancient cultures, GROUP SIZE: 12 to 24 guests CO-SPONSOR: Zegrahm Expeditions Bible lands and Cappadocia’s surreal and exotic wildlife. The 65-guest Oceanic landscape, enjoy a broad view of a PRICING: $4,954* DOUBLE/$5,849* SINGLE Discoverer easily navigates the mighty PRICING: From $12,980 DOUBLE/$16,980 SINGLE fascinating nation—a nation at the * PRICE INCLUDES AIRFARE FROM BOSTON, NEW YORK, rivers and tiny inlets of the region. During crossroads of East and West, as well OR HOUSTON. “LAND ONLY” PRICING IS ALSO numerous excursions, enjoy striking AVAILABLE. as of the ancient world and contemporary scenery and unusual wildlife. Explore the culture. Begin with visits to the Blue region’s hidden treasures—narrow gorges, Mosque, Hagia Sophia, Topkapi Palace, shallow tributaries, and cascading Grand Bazaar, and a cruise on the waterfalls—by boat, Zodiac, and helicopter. Bosphorus. End in Ankara, the capital Gaze upon the dramatic gorges and pools city rich in history. of Mitchell Falls, search for an astonishing variety of wildlife in the Prince Regent , discover desertscapes dotted with bizarre boab trees, and photograph the sublimely beautiful isles of the Buccaneer Archipelago.

TO BOOK A TRIP, CALL 800-422-1636 OR VISIT ALUMNI.HARVARD.EDU/CATALOG 9 THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA: ATHENS TO NICE ON ISLAND SKY TRADE ROUTES OF COASTAL IBERIA: LISBON TO BARCELONA APRIL 27–MAY 10, 2015 ON TERE MOANA MAY 1–9, 2015

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During an 11-day cruise from Athens STUDY LEADERS: BENEDICT (DICK) GROSS This exclusive small-ship voyage STUDY LEADER: WERNER SOLLORS is the Henry to Nice, delve into the political, strategic, AB ’71, PhD ’78 and JILL MESIROV are both showcases the coastal jewels of B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English and cultural history of the Mediterranean mathematicians. Gross is the George Vasmer the Iberian Peninsula between Lisbon, Literature and a professor of African and Sea region. Visit important archaeological Leverett Professor of Mathematics at Portugal, and Barcelona, Spain. Cruise African American studies at Harvard. He has sites including the Acropolis in Athens; Harvard. During the cruise, he will lecture up Spain’s legendary Guadalquivir taught in Berlin, New York, Paris, Bern, Venice, legendary Troy, Hagar Qim, and Tarxien on Archimedes and the mathematics of River into the heart of beautiful Seville. Rome, Jerusalem, Nanjing, Abu Dhabi, and at in Malta; and Agrigento in Sicily. Enjoy the ancient world. Mesirov is associate Visit Portugal’s Algarve region and the Ca’ Foscari- in museums rich in ancient treasures, director and chief informatics officer at the enchanting city of Granada, Spain, Venice. the of Harvard and MIT, such as the new Acropolis Museum and its Alhambra. Also, see the scenic SHIP SIZE: Up to 90 guests and the Punic Ship Museum in Marsala, where she directs computational biology Strait of Gibraltar and call on two as well as battlefields where crucial and bioinformatics. She will discuss genomics of the enchanting Balearic Islands— CO-SPONSORS: Bryn Mawr College, clashes changed the course of history, and modern medicine on this program. Ibiza and Palma de Mallorca. Visit University of Texas at Austin and beautiful Greek temples in isolated SHIP SIZE: Up to 114 guests four UNESCO World Heritage sites PRICING: From $5,760 DOUBLE /$10,760 SINGLE glory, far from their cultural origins. while cruising the ancient trade CO-SPONSORS: Archaeological Institute routes aboard the exclusively chartered, of America, Cornell University, five-star, 45-stateroom Tere Moana. Princeton University, Yale University

PRICING: From $9,990 DOUBLE/$16,990 SINGLE

10 HOLLAND & BELGIUM: AMSTERDAM & BEYOND TORONTO: THE QUEEN CITY MAY 2–11, 2015 MAY 6–10, 2015

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Devote substantial time to the lives STUDY LEADER: CHARLES COGAN AB ’49, DPA ’92 Discover Toronto’s museums, architecture, STUDY LEADER: PETER MADSEN AB ’67, MArch ’72 and works of Rembrandt (including is an associate at . and nearby natural wonders. Experience is an award-winning fellow of the American a special exhibition at the recently After stints as a journalist and then a military the unique underground network of Institute of Architects with a background in renovated Rijksmuseum) and Van Gogh officer, he spent 37 years in the Central pedestrian tunnels and dine at the historic preservation. He is currently managing (who died 125 years ago). Marvel at the Intelligence Agency, 23 of them on assignments CN Tower. Tour the Art Gallery of Ontario director of Edo Essex Properties, a real estate Dutch masters at the newly reopened overseas. On this trip he will lecture on the and visit the new Queens Quay—the heart development firm. Madsen is a recently retired Mauritshuis Collection in The Hague history and the political and cultural dynamics of Toronto’s waterfront—with an urban director of the board of the Harvard Alumni before driving to Rotterdam to admire of the Netherlands and Belgium, and he will specialist. Enjoy an evening performance Association (for which he has given architectural cutting-edge buildings by Rem Koolhaas, explore the current state of the European of The Barber of Seville at the Canadian walking tours in Boston and Cambridge). Renzo Piano, and others. Continue to Union, including the issues of immigration Opera Company. Drive to the Niagara A seasoned traveler, Madsen led the spring Belgium for two days in the medieval and relations with the United States Peninsula, one of Ontario’s most acclaimed 2014 HAA trip to Berlin. town of Bruges, where highlights include and Russia. wine-making districts. Sample wines GROUP SIZE: 15 to 25 guests Michelangelo’s Madonna in the Church and marvel at Niagara Falls. Admire GROUP SIZE: 20 to 28 guests of Our Lady and the Hans Memling the superb collection of Islamic art at PRICING: $3,695 DOUBLE/$4,560 SINGLE Museum. See the van Eyck brothers’ PRICING: $6,495 DOUBLE/$7,790 SINGLE the recently opened Aga Khan Museum. altarpiece at the Cathedral of Saint Bavo Explore Toronto independently or join in nearby Ghent, and tour the house a visit to the Hockey Hall of Fame and of Peter Paul Rubens in Antwerp. the Royal Ontario Museum.

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Aboard the luxurious Silver Whisper, STUDY LEADER: MICHAEL McELROY is the Gilbert This unforgettable 15-night transpacific STUDY LEADER: FRAN ULMER is chair of the cruise from New York to London on a Butler Professor of Environmental Studies at travel program features one night in U.S. Research Commission, appointed classic journey across the Atlantic Ocean. Harvard. He is the author of more than 250 Anchorage, Alaska, and 14 nights aboard by President Obama in 2011. A former Visit two great cities of the Canadian technical papers and several books covering the Silver Shadow. Cruise from Seward, fellow of the Institute of Politics at Harvard Maritimes: Halifax, Nova Scotia, and topics ranging from studies of planetary Alaska, to Tokyo, Japan, on an exotic Kennedy School, Ulmer served as an elected St. John’s, Newfoundland; cruise along atmospheres, to stratospheric ozone, to the journey across the Bering Sea and the official for 18 years: as the mayor of Juneau, the ruggedly beautiful coast of Ireland, chemistry of the troposphere, to changes in northern Pacific Ocean’s final frontier, with Alaska, as a state representative, and as with an opportunity to tour Limerick, biogeochemical cycles and factors underlying port calls in Alaska’s Homer and Kodiak, lieutenant governor of Alaska. She also served located on the picturesque River Shannon; both natural and human-induced changes in the Aleutian Islands, Russia’s Far East, as director of policy development for Alaska, call at Cobh, one of the ports visited by global climate. His most recent book addresses and Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido. as well as on dozens of nonprofit and the Titanic, and historic Cork; and explore the need to switch to a low-carbon energy government boards and commissions at the quaint Cornish port of Fowey. On board, future in order to meet the challenge both the state and national levels. guest speakers will provide educational of global climate change. SHIP SIZE: Up to 382 guests discussions on local history, nature, and SHIP SIZE: Up to 380 guests culture. Optional excursions allow you CO-SPONSORS: University of California, to explore the ports at your own pace. CO-SPONSORS: Johns Hopkins University, Berkeley, National Trust for Historic National Trust for Historic Preservation, Preservation, Northwestern University, Northwestern University, among others Smithsonian Journeys

PRICING: From $4,995 DOUBLE/$11,695 SINGLE PRICING: From approximately $5,095 DOUBLE 12 VILLAGE LIFE IN DORDOGNE SILK ROAD JOURNEY: ULAANBAATAR TO ISTANBUL MAY 14–22, 2015 MAY 14–JUNE 7, 2015

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Experience the provincial character STUDY LEADER: MICHAEL SHINAGEL PhD ’64 Begin in Ulaanbaatar, capital of today’s STUDY LEADER: DAVID J. ROXBURGH is the of Dordogne for one full week in served as dean of continuing education , and hop a helicopter to explore Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Professor of Islamic Sarlat-la-Canéda, one of the best- and University extension at Harvard from Genghis Khan’s all-but-vanished capital, Art History at Harvard. His research focuses preserved medieval villages in France. 1975 to 2013. He served as master of Quincy Karakorum. Continue to Beijing to catch on calligraphy and illustration in the Arab Stay in the family-owned Plaza House from 1985 to 2001. He is currently a glimpse of the classic sites, then fly and Persian manuscript traditions. He carried Madeleine Hôtel, formerly a grand lecturing in English at the College and the to western China, where Turkic Uighur out his doctoral research in Istanbul and 19th-century townhouse. Discover the Extension School. people have lived for thousands of years. completed his thesis in 1996, at which time region’s charming villages, medieval In Uzbekistan, admire the blue-tiled he came to Harvard. He has edited catalogs GROUP SIZE: 12 to 36 guests castles, and prehistoric treasures architecture of the Silk Road oasis of of major exhibitions of Islamic art, including through specially arranged excursions PRICING: $4,395 DOUBLE/$5,095 SINGLE Samarkand, where the Turko-Mongol ruler Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years in 2005. and cultural enrichments, including the Tamerlane gathered the world’s greatest GROUP SIZE: 12 to 30 guests medieval pilgrimage site of Rocamadour pool of artisans, and visit Shakhrisabz and the fascinating prehistoric cave and Bukhara. Browse the atmospheric PRICING: $15,995* DOUBLE/$18,490* SINGLE paintings of Rouffignac and Blanc, bazaars of Istanbul, where Silk Road *PRICE INCLUDES INTERNAL AIRFARE AND HELICOPTER RIDE. all part of UNESCO’s World Heritage list; treasures were sold. Along the way, meet the perfect replica cave art of Lascaux II; with artists, experts, and local families, and the exclusive Village Forum with and experience eight UNESCO World local residents who will share candid Heritage sites. insights into daily life in Dordogne. TO BOOK A TRIP, CALL 800-422-1636 OR VISIT ALUMNI.HARVARD.EDU/CATALOG 13 FAMILY ADVENTURE TRAVELS

FAMILY CHINA ADVENTURE FAMILY TURKEY ADVENTURE FAMILY IRELAND ADVENTURE JUNE 27–JULY 9, 2015 JUNE 27–JULY 9, 2015 JUNE 28–JULY 6, 2015

Explore China’s imperial highlights, modern cities, This journey takes you through Istanbul’s scented Learn about Ireland’s history, mythology, geology, and the sublime Huang Mountains. Enjoy a variety bazaars and impressive mosques to the underground and ecology. Participate in live archaeological research of family-friendly activities and authentic local passageways of Cappadocia, from the ancient ruins and enjoy recreational activities such as archery, connections. of Ephesus to the Turquoise Coast of the Mediterranean. rafting, making Irish brown bread, and traditional Irish music. STUDY LEADER: MICHAEL SZONYI is a professor of Chinese STUDY LEADER: To be announced history at Harvard. He has been traveling in China for more STUDY LEADER: JAMES ENGELL AB ’73, PhD ’78 is the Gurney GROUP SIZE: 16 to 30 guests than 30 years, spending much of his time in villages— Professor of English Literature and a professor of comparative collecting documents, interviewing elderly people, and PRICING: $7,495 DOUBLE/$10,485 SINGLE literature at Harvard. The recipient of four faculty-wide observing rituals in order to understand the traces that $6,995 CHILD (UNDER 18) teaching and advising awards, Engell offers courses on the past leaves in the present. rhetoric, the Enlightenment, romantic poetry, 18th-century studies, and environmental issues. GROUP SIZE: 15 to 40 guests GROUP SIZE: 16 to 30 guests PRICING: $6,695 DOUBLE/$8,690 SINGLE $6,395 CHILD (UNDER 18) PRICING: To be announced

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A FAMILY ADVENTURE IN JOURNEY TO THE LANDS OF GODS TANZANIA FAMILY ADVENTURE MACHU PICCHU & THE AMAZON & HEROES: A FAMILY ADVENTURE DECEMBER 26, 2015–JANUARY 6, 2016 JULY 1–11, 2015 ON ARETHUSA JULY 6–17, 2015 This family adventure offers plenty of wildlife viewing, Introduce your children to history and archaeology comfortable accommodations, and a variety of fun in an exciting way at Machu Picchu, the famed History comes alive on a voyage of discovery in the activities for all ages. “Lost City of the Incas,” and show them the natural eastern Mediterranean, where myth and history are STUDY LEADER: To be announced beauty and biodiversity of the Amazon River. intertwined. Stops include Athens, Ephesus, Pompeii, and Olympia. GROUP SIZE: Up to 22 guests STUDY LEADER: JEFFREY FROST is a research associate at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. STUDY LEADER: JONATHAN L. WALTON is the Plummer PRICING: From $8,995 DOUBLE/$9,985 SINGLE Since 2005 he has been contributing to several projects Professor of Christian Morals, a professor of religion and $8,695 TEEN, $8,295 CHILD in Peru, investigating the daily lives of the Moche and Chimu society at , and the Pusey Minister people through the excavation of commoner households. in the Memorial Church. He lectures on religion, myth and ritual, and on themes of power, ethnicity, and gender. GROUP SIZE: Up to 25 guests SHIP SIZE: Up to 50 guests PRICING: From $7,495 DOUBLE/$10,495 SINGLE $6,945 CHILD (UNDER 18) PRICING: From $8,145 DOUBLE/$12,345 SINGLE $6,845 CHILD TO BOOK A TRIP, CALL 800-422-1636 OR VISIT ALUMNI.HARVARD.EDU/CATALOG 15 THE BRITISH ISLES & IRELAND: VOYAGE TO GREEN SOUTHERN AFRICA BY PRIVATE PLANE & GENTLE LANDS ON CORINTHIAN MAY 21–JUNE 8, 2015 MAY 17–28, 2015

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This voyage, encompassing England, STUDY LEADER: DAVID A. AGUILAR is the Southern Africa contains some of the STUDY LEADER: JONATHAN LOSOS AB ’84 is Wales, Ireland, and Scotland, conjures director of public affairs at the Harvard- most visually stunning, wildlife-rich areas the Monique and Philip Lehner Professor history and legends at every turn, from Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in the world. Travel by private plane to for the Study of Latin America, a professor the stomping ground of King Arthur’s and the popular host of the CfA’s Observatory Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, of organismic and evolutionary biology, and knights in Cornwall and Wales, to Saint Nights and Sci-Fi Movie Nights. Aguilar and South Africa. Explore Zambia’s South curator in herpetology at the Museum of Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, to the is the author and illustrator of National Luangwa National Park, home to Africa’s Comparative Zoology at Harvard. His research graves of Duncan and Macbeth on the Geographic’s Planets, Stars, and Galaxies: largest population of leopards. In Zimbabwe, concerns the origin and maintenance of Isle of Iona. Further north—in Skye, A Visual Encyclopedia of Our Universe— visit the spectacular Victoria Falls. In biological diversity: where species come from, Lewis, and the Orkneys—enter the a vividly illustrated book that celebrates Botswana, stay at Kings Pool Camp and what directs the evolutionary course they Neolithic world of the Standing Stones the wonders of space—and 11 Planets: Jao Camp, discovering the Okavango take, and what ongoing ecological processes of Callanish and Stenness, the Ring A New View of Our Solar System. Delta, which has large populations of affect them today. of Brodgar, and the ruins of Skara Brae. elephants, zebras, lions, leopards, and SHIP SIZE: Up to 100 guests GROUP SIZE: 10 to 15 guests Experience some of the most beautiful cheetahs. Fly across to Namibia’s in the British Isles at the height CO-SPONSORS: Carleton College, Fordham Sossusvlei Dunes to stay at Little Kulala PRICING: $31,195 DOUBLE/$32,990 SINGLE of their bloom at the cultivated gardens University, University of North Carolina and see the spectacular red-dune landscape. of Tresco Abbey on the Isles of Scilly, PRICING: From $8,740 DOUBLE/$13,130 SINGLE End the trip in South Africa, exploring Bodnant Garden on Anglesey, and the the history, culture, and unparalleled wildflowers of Skye and Lewis. beauty of Cape Town.

16 HIMALAYAN KINGDOMS: TIBET, NEPAL & BHUTAN GARDEN ISLES & GRAND ESTATES FROM HONFLEUR TO MAY 31–JUNE 14, 2015 PORTSMOUTH ON SEA CLOUD II JUNE 6–14, 2015

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Your journey to the “rooftop of the world” STUDY LEADERS: HARVEY FINEBERG AB ’67, Embark Sea Cloud II in the fishing STUDY LEADERS: LEO DAMROSCH is the Ernest begins in Beijing before you fly to Tibet, MD ’71, MPP ’72, PhD ’80 is professor of health village of Honfleur, beloved by the Bernbaum Professor of Literature emeritus at where colorful prayer wheels, exotic policy and management emeritus at Harvard impressionists. In the , Harvard. Damrosch will speak about a number bazaars, golden Buddhas, and iconic School of Public Health. He served as dean of admire the walled garden of La Seigneurie of literary works of the region, including Henry chortens (shrines) abound. Next, view the School of Public Health for 13 years, and on tiny Sark, or tour the house on Adams’s book Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres. the Himalayas and famed Mount Everest as provost of Harvard University from 1997 where Victor Hugo wrote Damrosch is a self-proclaimed World War II by air, en route to Kathmandu, Nepal’s to 2001. MARY WILSON is an adjunct associate Les Misérables. On Tresco in the Isles of buff and spent his first three years in a Japanese capital. See splendid stupas, pagodas, professor of global health and population Scilly, discover the terraced, subtropical internment camp in the Philippines. He will and palaces that reflect the city’s nearly at Harvard School of Public Health. She was Abbey Gardens. Other options include also discuss Queen Victoria and her Isle of 2,000-year history. From there, fly to chief of infectious diseases at Mount Auburn Mont-Saint-Michel and Agatha Christie’s Wight house. JOYCE VAN DYKE is a playwright Bhutan, a country that strictly limits the Hospital, a Harvard-affiliated community home near Dartmouth, or a visit to an and a lecturer at Harvard Extension School. number of visitors each year. Trek to the teaching hospital, for more than 20 years. American cemetery and a walk on the SHIP SIZE: Up to 70 guests sacred Taktsang Monastery, which clings beaches where U.S. troops practiced GROUP SIZE: 20 to 35 guests to the side of a cliff 10,000 feet above for the D-Day invasion. Also visit the CO-SPONSORS: The Metropolitan Museum the valley below; enjoy colorful Bhutanese PRICING: $11,890 DOUBLE/$14,390 SINGLE Isle of Wight to tour Osborne House, of Art, National Trust for Historic folk dances; and explore the spectacular Queen Victoria’s favorite summer Preservation, Royal Oak Foundation winter fortress Punakha Dzong. residence. Optional trip extensions PRICING: From $6,995 DOUBLE/$11,690 SINGLE in Normandy and London are available.

TO BOOK A TRIP, CALL 800-422-1636 OR VISIT ALUMNI.HARVARD.EDU/CATALOG 17 WILD GALÁPAGOS ON ISABELA II MACHU PICCHU TO THE GALÁPAGOS ON CORAL II JUNE 8–16, 2015 JUNE 9–23, 2015 AIRFARE INCLUDED

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This comprehensive Galápagos voyage SHIP SIZE: Up to 38 guests Visit two of South America’s greatest STUDY LEADER: DANIEL E. LIEBERMAN AB ’86, visits no fewer than eight unique islands. treasures on one trip: the enigmatic PhD ’93 is the Edward M. Lerner II Professor CO-SPONSOR: Zegrahm Expeditions Ideally timed during summer vacation, ruins at Machu Picchu and the fascinating of Biological Sciences in the Department of this expedition is a great choice for PRICING: From $6,980* DOUBLE Galápagos Islands, Darwin’s “living Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard. families and groups of friends. Enjoy * THERE IS NO SUPPLEMENT FOR SINGLE TRAVELERS laboratory.” In the magnificent Sacred He studies the fossil record of human evolution a variety of daily activities that offer (EXCEPT FOR THE MASTER SUITE). Valley, you will stay at Sanctuary Lodge to determine why the human body looks and something for everyone. Snorkel with Machu Picchu, adjacent to the ruins, functions as it does. He is especially interested friendly sea lions. Get up-close views where you will have the rare privilege in when, how, and why early hominins first of giant tortoises, endemic wildlife, of seeing the site after the tourists have became bipeds, and then became exceptional and thousands of in various left. Next, view astonishing Galápagos long-distance runners. stages of breeding. Discover fascinating wildlife during a four-night cruise aboard SHIP SIZE: Up to 16 guests geology: lunar-like fields, eroded an intimate, privately chartered ship volcanic cones, and active shield (for just 16 guests). Giant tortoises, PRICING: From $9,693* DOUBLE/$12,888* SINGLE volcanoes. Lectures by tour staff and blue-footed boobies, frigate birds, * PRICE INCLUDES AIRFARE FROM MIAMI. local guides enhance this educational and colorful iguanas are just a small AIRFARE FROM BOSTON OR “LAND ONLY” PRICING IS ALSO AVAILABLE. experience. sampling of the wildlife you will see.

18 WATERWAYS OF RUSSIA: MOSCOW TO ST. PETERSBURG THE GREAT JOURNEY THROUGH EUROPE: THE NETHERLANDS, ON VOLGA DREAM II GERMANY, FRANCE & SWITZERLAND JUNE 11–21, 2015 JUNE 26–JULY 6, 2015

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The maiden voyage of Volga Dream II STUDY LEADER: STEPHANIE SANDLER is the This extraordinary 11-day grand tour STUDY LEADER: SUE WEAVER SCHOPF is an begins with four days in Moscow, including Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Slavic Languages of Europe features five nights aboard associate dean and lecturer at Harvard a before-hours tour of the Kremlin and a and Literatures at Harvard. She writes about the deluxe Amadeus Princess. Travel Extension School and advisor to graduate backstage discussion with a dancer at the and translates contemporary Russian poetry through the Netherlands, Germany, students in the humanities. She teaches newly restored Bolshoi Theatre. Discover and has also written two books about France, and Switzerland, cruising the courses on English romantic poetry, Victorian Uglich, with its five-domed Church of the Alexander Pushkin, the founder of modern most scenic sections of the Rhine and poetry and nonfictional prose, modern poetry, Transfiguration, and , the oldest Russian literature. Sandler is interested Mosel Rivers. Visit UNESCO World literary criticism and theory, Western drama, city on the Volga. Cross Lake Beloye, once in poetry, translation, and cultural change Heritage sites in Amsterdam, Cologne, Milton and Paradise Lost, Irish literature, known as the “tsar’s fishing grounds,” in Russia, the United States, and Europe. and Strasbourg. Spend two nights each and Orientalism in British literature and to Goritsy. Tour the Kirillo-Belozersky in Zermatt and Lucerne, ride aboard three visual culture. SHIP SIZE: Up to 120 guests Monastery, with its frescoed 13th-century legendary railways—the Gonergrat Bahn, SHIP SIZE: Up to 152 guests Cathedral of the Assumption, and continue CO-SPONSORS: The Metropolitan Museum for breathtaking views of the Matterhorn; to the , a UNESCO of Art, Royal Oak Foundation, Yale University the Express from Zermatt to CO-SPONSORS: Dartmouth College, Duke University, Smithsonian Journeys World Heritage site. Explore the magical PRICING: From $6,995 DOUBLE/$10,645 SINGLE Lucerne; and the Pilatus railway, the architecture of and stop world’s steepest cogwheel railway—and PRICING: From $4,495 DOUBLE/$8,895 SINGLE at the village of Mandrogi before enjoy a scenic cruise on Lake Lucerne. disembarking in St. Petersburg, where an optional post-trip extension is available.

TO BOOK A TRIP, CALL 800-422-1636 OR VISIT ALUMNI.HARVARD.EDU/CATALOG 19 TRANS-SIBERIAN BY PRIVATE TRAIN: MOSCOW TO ULAANBAATAR THE BALTIC’S AMBER COAST: COPENHAGEN TO ST. PETERSBURG (AND THE NAADAM FESTIVAL) ON SEA CLOUD II JUNE 29–JULY 13, 2015 JULY 13–24, 2015

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Begin this deluxe tour with an exploration STUDY LEADER: JULIE BUCKLER PhD ’96 is a Begin with a canal cruise in Copenhagen STUDY LEADER: CAROL R. SAIVETZ is a research of Moscow before embarking the Golden professor of Slavic languages and literatures before embarking Sea Cloud II. From associate at Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian Eagle Trans-Siberian Express train. Traverse and of comparative literature at Harvard. Klaipeda, , drive to Vilnius and and Eurasian Studies. She also teaches the vast Russian countryside with stops She is a specialist on Russia with broader explore its medieval old town. See the Russian foreign policy in the Security Studies along the way at Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, interests in the region, particularly regarding ancient churches of Riga, Latvia, and Program at MIT. Her most recent publications and Irkutsk. Trace the shores of ’s cultural landscapes, cultural memory, attend a private organ performance in analyze the newly resurgent Russia’s foreign , a UNESCO World Heritage site and contemporary issues around heritage the city’s cathedral. Cross the Baltic Sea policies—including energy policies and whose basin holds 20 percent of the earth’s preservation. She is working on an urban to the Swedish island of Visby, a UNESCO reactions to EU and NATO expansion. During unfrozen fresh water. Then head south studies program at the Radcliffe Institute World Heritage site, and dock overnight the trip, she will discuss Russian-EU relations from Ulan-Ude to experience Mongolia’s for Advanced Study, focusing on post-socialist in Stockholm to stroll its picturesque and the impact of the Ukrainian crisis on wind-combed steppe and attend the and post-Soviet Eurasian cities. At the Davis old town and tour Drottningholm Palace, East-West relations. remarkable Naadam Festival in Ulaanbaatar, Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, modeled after Versailles. In Tallinn, SHIP SIZE: Up to 70 guests a celebration of Mongolia’s land and she is co-running a Fellows Program seminar Estonia, enjoy an exclusive concert and traditions—wrestling, horse racing, on mapping cultural space across . see the country’s oldest church. Admire CO-SPONSORS: The Metropolitan Museum and archery. the modern architecture and fine art of Art, Queens University, Yale University GROUP SIZE: 10 to 35 guests of Helsinki, Finland, before disembarking PRICING: From $7,995 DOUBLE/$12,995 SINGLE PRICING: From $17,395 DOUBLE/$24,690 SINGLE in St. Petersburg, Russia.

20 NORTH POLE EXPEDITION ON 50 YEARS OF VICTORY MOUNT EVEREST BASE CAMP TREK JUNE 25–JULY 9, 2015 OCTOBER 26–NOVEMBER 12, 2015

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On this truly once-in-a-lifetime voyage, STUDY LEADER: JAMES McCARTHY is the Experience the epitome of mountain STUDY LEADER: To be announced crush through the ice on a Russian Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological adventures by trekking through the GROUP SIZE: To be announced Artika-class nuclear-powered Oceanography at Harvard. He directed the largest mountain range on earth to South to reach the North Pole—the pinnacle Museum of Comparative Zoology from 1982 Base Camp at an altitude of 17,598 feet! PRICING: To be announced of Arctic expedition, where few people to 2002 and was co-master of Pforzheimer Each step among the frozen giants of have stood. Admire soaring seabirds House (with his wife, Sue) from 1996 to 2009. the Himalayas will keep you captivated and spectacular Arctic scenery from McCarthy is deeply involved with the study by natural splendor, but you will also , Russia, to Franz Josef Land, of climate change. He had major roles in enjoy the simple, rich joys of the culture and finally to the one spot on earth recent climate impact assessments and held a and people of Nepal. Paced appropriately from which every direction points south. leadership role on the Nobel Prize–winning for comfort and acclimatization, the trek 50 Years of Victory is currently the only Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. is designed to let you take in all of the icebreaker available for taking tourists Khumbu (Everest region) as you make your SHIP SIZE: Up to 128 guests to the North Pole, but it will be retiring way from village to village. You will enjoy at the end of 2015, so this might literally CO-SPONSOR: Stanford University having tea with local villagers, experience be your last chance. PRICING: From $28,995 DOUBLE/$47,195 SINGLE the spiritual culture, and become acquainted with the plants and animals that inhabit various elevations within the mountain range.

TO BOOK A TRIP, CALL 800-422-1636 OR VISIT ALUMNI.HARVARD.EDU/CATALOG 21 CRUISING RUSSIA’S WHITE SEA & NORWAY’S ALASKA’S GLACIERS & THE INSIDE PASSAGE: JUNEAU ON SERENISSIMA TO VANCOUVER ON L’AUSTRAL JULY 17–27, 2015 JULY 18–25, 2015

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This unique journey combines the STUDY LEADERS: To be announced Cruise for seven nights aboard the STUDY LEADER: FRAN ULMER is chair of the natural beauty of Norway’s northernmost exclusively chartered L’Austral, from U.S. Arctic Research Commission, appointed SHIP SIZE: Up to 107 guests coastal fjords and the pristine expanse Juneau, Alaska, through the pristine by President Obama in 2011. A former fellow of Russia’s rarely visited White Sea. CO-SPONSORS: University of Chicago, MIT, waters of the magnificent Inside Passage of the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy Cruise in the wake of the Vikings past National Trust for Historic Preservation to Vancouver, British Columbia. Discover School, Ulmer served as an elected official craggy coastlines, dense forests, and PRICING: From $4,995 DOUBLE/$6,995 SINGLE an up-close perspective of southeastern for 18 years: as the mayor of Juneau, Alaska, quaint seaside villages. Discover remote Alaska’s natural beauty aboard this as a state representative, and as lieutenant jewels like Honningsvåg and Tromsø, mega-yacht and enjoy Zodiac excursions governor of Alaska. She also served as director the “gateway to the Arctic.” Explore that enable you to cruise into areas of policy development for Alaska, as well a seldom-seen side of Russia—from inaccessible to larger vessels. See as on dozens of nonprofit and government the port city of Murmansk to the untouched coastlines; watch for whales, boards and commissions at both the state historic monastery of the Solovetsky harbor seals, porpoises, sea lions, sea and national levels. Islands (a UNESCO World Heritage site) otters, and eagles; and cruise alongside SHIP SIZE: Up to 240 guests to , the chief seaport of magnificent glaciers. Visit the historic medieval Russia, before disembarking and inviting fishing towns of Ketchikan, CO-SPONSORS: Columbia University, in Kirkenes. Petersburg, and Sitka. Smithsonian Journeys, among others PRICING: From $3,995 DOUBLE/$10,995 SINGLE

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THE LEGENDARY VOYAGE OF JASON & THE ARGONAUTS DISCOVERING EASTERN EUROPE ON ARTEMIS SEPTEMBER 24–OCTOBER 10, 2015 AUGUST 17–29, 2015 AIRFARE INCLUDED

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Before Odysseus left Troy in search of home, STUDY LEADER: HARVEY COX PhD ’63 is the Hollis Experience a generous overview of five STUDY LEADER: To be announced another Greek undertook an equally perilous Research Professor of Divinity emeritus at distinct nations: Poland, Hungary, Austria, GROUP SIZE: 12 to 24 guests journey. Assembling a band of heroes, Jason Harvard, where he has taught since 1965, both Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. Begin set out on a quest for the Golden Fleece at the Divinity School and in the Faculty of Arts in Poland’s capital, Warsaw, with the PRICING: $5,997* DOUBLE/$7,192* SINGLE that would regain him his rightful throne. and Sciences. He chaired the Department of faithfully rebuilt Old Town and a guided * PRICE INCLUDES AIRFARE FROM BOSTON Follow the path of Jason’s ship, Argo, and Religion and Society and taught in the religious visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Tour the OR NEW YORK. “LAND ONLY” PRICING IS ALSO AVAILABLE. discover many of the sites of his mythical studies program and in the moral reasoning Wieliczka Salt Mine, a UNESCO World adventures. Sail through the northern division of the Core Curriculum. He will be Heritage site, in Krakow. Explore Budapest Bosphorus, where the Argo narrowly accompanied by his wife, NINA TUMARKIN PhD ’75, with comprehensive touring and escaped shipwreck; explore Turkey’s Amasya a professor of history at Wellesley College. your own. View the scenic Danube Bend. and Giresun, home to the fierce Amazons; In Vienna, attend a classical music SHIP SIZE: Up to 50 guests and spend time in ancient Colchis. Explore performance and enjoy an inside visit the rich history and culture of the southern CO-SPONSORS: To be announced to majestic Schönbrunn Palace. Continue shores of the Black Sea, where ancient PRICING: From $9,130 DOUBLE/$12,730 SINGLE to old-world Bratislava and dine at the Greeks, Byzantines, Genoese, and Ottomans restaurant of a local family. Travel have mingled artistic and architectural to the Czech Republic and enjoy a tour legacies. of elegant Prague.

TO BOOK A TRIP, CALL 800-422-1636 OR VISIT ALUMNI.HARVARD.EDU/CATALOG 23 THE ENCHANTING DOURO RIVER ON AMAVIDA A BALKAN MOSAIC SEPTEMBER 26–OCTOBER 6, 2015 OCTOBER 1–14, 2015

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Begin in Madrid with the Prado and STUDY LEADER: To be announced The Balkan Peninsula’s prime position STUDY LEADER: To be announced Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. See has made it a meeting point—and flash SHIP SIZE: Up to 85 guests GROUP SIZE: 12 to 35 guests Salamanca, city of golden , point—of ancient Rome and Byzantium, before boarding AmaVida in Vega CO-SPONSORS: Baker Museum, and also of Christianity and Islam. On PRICING: $8,995 DOUBLE/$10,290 SINGLE de Terrón. Visit the fortified Portuguese The Metropolitan Museum of Art, this program, explore a mosaic of the village of Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo National Trust for Historic Preservation, competing cultures, ethnicities, languages, and enjoy a wine tasting at a local quinta Smithsonian Journeys and ideologies in six Balkan nations. (wine-producing estate) in Favaios. Other PRICING: From $4,995 DOUBLE/$6,245 SINGLE Begin in Albania, with its modern sense highlights include the hilltop pilgrimage of enterprise, and continue through church of Nossa Senhora dos Remédios beautiful Macedonia, inhabited since in Lamego and an after-hours tour of the Neolithic Age. Visit Kosovo, Europe’s the Douro Museum in Régua, dedicated youngest country, and its former to the history of this ancient wine region. antagonist, Serbia, with its elegant Conclude in Porto, with its eclectic capital Belgrade. Continue to reconstructed architecture—from the Romanesque Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, to the 21st century. An optional post-trip surrounded by the lush Dinaric Alps, extension in Lisbon is available. and red-roofed Dubrovnik, Croatia, jutting into the Adriatic Sea and surrounded by medieval walls. 24 LEGENDARY TURKEY MYSTICAL INDIA OCTOBER 3–17, 2015 OCTOBER 8–25, 2015 AIRFARE INCLUDED

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Begin in Istanbul, which astonishes STUDY LEADER: JOHN (JAY) ELLISON MTS ’91, Mystical and spiritual, chaotic and STUDY LEADER: DAVID A. AGUILAR is the director with its legendary Blue Mosque, Hagia PhD ’02 is the former associate dean of confounding—India overflows with riches. of public affairs at the Harvard-Smithsonian Sofia, and Topkapi Palace, one of the Harvard College and secretary of the College’s While staying at excellent hotels, travel Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and the popular world’s richest museums. Take a Administrative Board. He has recently been the classic Golden Triangle: bustling host of the CfA’s Observatory Nights and private cruise on the Bosphorus, the appointed as the new dean of students at the Delhi; Agra, home of the sublime Sci-Fi Movie Nights. Aguilar is the author and waterway that separates Europe from University of Chicago. Ellison is a scholar of Taj Mahal; and Jaipur, great city of the illustrator of National Geographic’s Planets, Asia. Discover secluded coves and Near Eastern languages and civilizations, Rajput. Plus, search for elusive Bengal Stars, and Galaxies: A Visual Encyclopedia of hidden sights, including the Sunken having earned his doctorate at Harvard with tigers at Ranthambore National Park, Our Universe—a vividly illustrated book that Baths of Cleopatra. Enjoy opportunities a specialty in ancient languages and extensive admire Khajuraho’s ancient temples, celebrates the wonders of space—and for swimming, snorkeling, and hiking field experience in Syria. He also completed and absorb the holiness of Varanasi. 11 Planets: A New View of Our Solar System. on this “Blue Voyage.” Travel to the a master of theological studies at Harvard GROUP SIZE: 12 to 24 guests seaside city of Antalya to visit the Divinity School. acclaimed Archaeological Museum and PRICING: To be announced GROUP SIZE: 12 to 24 guests the ruins of the ancient Greek city of Perge. Explore the bizarre rock formations PRICING: $4,992* DOUBLE/$5,987* SINGLE and underground cities of Cappadocia’s * PRICE INCLUDES AIRFARE FROM BOSTON, NEW YORK, Göreme Valley and tour Ankara, Turkey’s OR HOUSTON. “LAND ONLY” PRICING IS ALSO AVAILABLE. capital, on an optional post-trip extension.

TO BOOK A TRIP, CALL 800-422-1636 OR VISIT ALUMNI.HARVARD.EDU/CATALOG 25 TURKEY’S IONIAN & TURQUOISE COASTS ON VARIETY VOYAGER NORTH AFRICA THROUGH THE CENTURIES ON CORINTHIAN (PLUS CAPPADOCIA) OCTOBER 14–25, 2015 OCTOBER 13–25, 2015

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Cruise for seven nights on Variety STUDY LEADER: To be announced This voyage focuses on two of the many STUDY LEADER: To be announced Voyager from Athens to Antalya and varied cultures that contribute to the SHIP SIZE: Up to 72 guests SHIP SIZE: Up to 100 guests explore the cultural influences of rich cultural history of North Africa: the Greek, Persian, Roman, Lycian, CO-SPONSORS: To be announced the Carthaginian and the Arab. Begin CO-SPONSORS: Carleton College, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires upon PRICING: From approximately $7,395 in Sardinia at the Neolithic complex at the stunning Ionian and Turquoise Su Nuraxi, a UNESCO World Heritage Duke University, National Trust for Historic Coasts of Turkey. Imagine the bustling site. Explore the ruins of famed Carthage Preservation, World Affairs Council of daily life in ancient Pergamon, Ephesus, and devote two days to an exploration Philadelphia Xanthos, and Arykanda. Explore the of remarkably well-preserved Roman sites PRICING: From $9,450 DOUBLE/$13,840 SINGLE picturesque Dalyan River and follow in Algeria: Constantine, “The City of in the footsteps of Alexander the Great Bridges”; and Tipasa, home to the grand in Perge and Aspendos. Continue to tomb of the Berber king Juba II. Then the heart of Anatolia with several nights shift focus to the Arabian heritage of in the world of subterranean churches Morocco in Tangier, Rabat, and Marrakech, and cities of Cappadocia, and end in once the most important religious and Istanbul, where East and West meet, economic center in West Africa. The a mélange of exciting cultures. voyage concludes in Lisbon, Portugal.

26 EXPLORING AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND CRUISING PATAGONIA’S CHILEAN FJORDS ON VIA AUSTRALIS OCTOBER 17–NOVEMBER 7, 2015 OCTOBER 20–NOVEMBER 2, 2015

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Begin in Cairns, Australia, and ride the STUDY LEADER: JOCK PHILLIPS PhD ’78 is one Explore one of Chile’s award-winning STUDY LEADER: MARK VAN BAALEN AB ’66, historic railway to the mountain village of New Zealand’s leading historians. His vineyards near Santiago; marvel at the PhD ’95 is a lecturer on earth and planetary of Kuranda, then descend via gondola. wide-ranging interests include new ways of spectacular natural beauty and wildlife sciences at Harvard. He and his wife, Louisa, Board a boat for a daylong excursion presenting the past. He was the chief historian of Torres del Paine National Park, including who recently retired from Harvard Kennedy to the Great Barrier Reef, where you can in the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, and the dramatic peaks of Los Cuernos del School, have been privileged to lead numerous swim, snorkel, or view the reef from a then concept leader in history at the Museum Paine; immerse yourself in local culture HAA excursions to distant lands. On these trips, semi-submersible vessel. Take an Aboriginal of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. He is at a privately owned Patagonian sheep he lectures on the natural history of the regions “dreamtime” tour and learn about the now general editor of Te Ara—The Encyclopedia ranch; and discover vibrant Buenos Aires. being visited and paints a broader picture of ancient culture of the Walpiri. Watch the of New Zealand. Cruise for four nights aboard Via human interaction with the environment, now sun set over fabled Ayers Rock. Tour Australis from Punta Arenas, Chile, and in the past. GROUP SIZE: 12 to 24 guests the highlights of Sydney and enjoy ample to Ushuaia, Argentina, via Cape Horn, GROUP SIZE: 15 to 45 guests PRICING: To be announced leisure time. Then fly to New Zealand including Zodiac landings and excursions (Via Australis may take up to 136 passengers) and explore Mount Cook National Park each day. Cruise through the historic over a two-night stay. Cruise through the Strait of Magellan and the vivid landscapes PRICING: From $6,995 DOUBLE breathtaking fjords of Milford Sound, visit of Glacier Alley, and visit Cape Horn geothermal Rotorua, and experience the National Park, a UNESCO biosphere Maori culture at a traditional hangi dinner reserve known as the “end of the earth.” and performance. Conclude in Auckland.

TO BOOK A TRIP, CALL 800-422-1636 OR VISIT ALUMNI.HARVARD.EDU/CATALOG 27 EASTERN & ORIENTAL EXPRESS: BANGKOK TO SINGAPORE TO BALI SPAIN’S MEDITERRANEAN COAST: BARCELONA TO MÁLAGA OCTOBER 22–NOVEMBER 3, 2015 ON SEA CLOUD OCTOBER 25–NOVEMBER 4, 2015

LAND & RAIL CRUISE

Begin in bustling Bangkok, exploring STUDY LEADER: To be announced Discover the magic and romance of a cruise STUDY LEADER: To be announced stunning temples and palaces, navigating aboard the legendary four-masted Sea Cloud GROUP SIZE: To be announced SHIP SIZE: Up to 52 guests remote waterways and local markets, as you sail along the Mediterranean coast and sampling vibrant cuisine. Then climb PRICING: To be announced of Spain. Begin in Barcelona to experience CO-SPONSORS: Archaeological Institute aboard the iconic Eastern & Oriental Gaudí’s whimsical architecture and the of America, National Trust for Historic Express for a three-night journey. Relax Picasso Museum. Tour ancient Roman ruins Preservation in your private cabin as you roll past and enjoy an olive oil tasting in Tarragona. PRICING: From $8,995 DOUBLE/$12,995 SINGLE verdant rice fields and quaint villages, See futuristic as well as historic stopping for excursions to explore masterpieces in Valencia. Visit the Museum colorful Penang and the infamous River of Underwater Archaeology in Cartagena. Kwai. Discover the lure of Singapore, Finish at the magnificent Alhambra a modern metropolis pulsing with palace/fortress in Granada before Chinese, Malay, Indian, Arab, and British disembarking in Málaga. All the while, civilization. Conclude with three days bask in the incomparable service, on the mesmerizing island of Bali, with deluxe accommodations, and five-star its remote villages, evocative temples, cuisine aboard the truly timeless Sea Cloud. and skillful artisans.

28 BEST OF PATAGONIA: BUENOS AIRES, SANTIAGO, EL CALAFATE INDIA, SRI LANKA & THE MALDIVES ON ISLAND SKY & TORRES DEL PAINE NATIONAL PARK NOVEMBER 27–DECEMBER 14, 2015 NOVEMBER 6–19, 2015

LAND CRUISE

This journey combines the urban STUDY LEADER: To be announced Witness the rich cultural heritage of India, SHIP SIZE: Up to 100 guests sophistication of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the amazing historic sites of lush Sri Lanka, GROUP SIZE: 14 to 26 guests CO-SPONSOR: Zegrahm Expeditions and Santiago, Chile, with some of the and the stunning natural beauty of the most awe-inspiring landscapes of PRICING: $10,645 DOUBLE/$12,510 SINGLE Maldives. A two-day exploration of Kochi, PRICING: From $14,980 DOUBLE/$20,580 SINGLE Patagonia. Enjoy a day on a private India, reveals a mélange of international estancia (cattle ranch) in the Argentinian influences with a cruise through the languid Pampas; survey the legendary Strait of backwaters aboard a local houseboat. Magellan from Punta Arenas; from a boat In Thiruvananthapuram, visit the village on Lake Argentino admire the white of Pongumoodu and its surrounding majesty of glaciers plunging into the sea; rubber plantations, and enjoy a traditional and revel in the grandeur of Chile’s Torres martial arts demonstration. In Sri Lanka, del Paine National Park, the crown jewel visit an elephant orphanage and two of Patagonia. Venture south to El Calafate UNESCO World Heritage sites—the Temple to visit Glaciers National Park and its of the Tooth and the fort of Galle. Conclude massive Perito Moreno Glacier, then head with three days in the Maldives, snorkeling across the Andes into Chilean Patagonia, over healthy reefs and meeting the and conclude in Santiago. A pre-trip charming locals. extension to Iguazú Falls, one of the natural wonders of the world, is available. TO BOOK A TRIP, CALL 800-422-1636 OR VISIT ALUMNI.HARVARD.EDU/CATALOG 29 “ Dr. Sollors made this trip memorable. We are very fortunate to have his broad knowledge of the history of the area coupled with firsthand experience. Plus, he was a great deal of fun and made a real effort to be a host. He excelled in this!” —Susan and Carl Becker on “Elbe River” 2014

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