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Oxford Alumni Travellers Start the Adventure Today www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/travel OXFORD ALUMNI TRAVELLERS START THE ADVENTURE TODAY TWO TRIPS, TWO CHANCES DESTINATION BURMA NEW FOR 2013 WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY IN NAMIBIA PlAN YOUR NEXT HOLIDAY TODAY TRAVEL PLANNER Front cover: Burma (iStockphoto/Patrik Dietrich) p9 and p10; Inside front cover: Salzburg (ACE Cultural Tours) p5 Exclusive academic tours to every corner of the globe OXFExclusiveORD ALUMNI academic tours TtoRAVELLERS every corner of the globe START THE ADVENTURE TODAY JOIN OUR PROGRAMME IN 2013 AND BEcoME CONTENTS AN OXFORD ALUMNI TRAVELLER EDUCATIONAL TRAVEL 4 EUROPE Travel in the company of an expert trip scholar, who will offer 9 ASIA interesting and unique insights into the destination. 12 AFRICA LIKE-MINDED TRAVELLERS Enjoy travelling with other Oxford alumni. Group sizes are 14 ANTARCTICA typically small, with approximately 20 participants. 14 SOUTH AMERICA UNIQUE TOURS 15 TRAVELLERS’ PROFILES Tours are designed especially for alumni and include an extensive range of destinations and themes designed to satisfy 16 TRIP SCHOLARS the intellect: from cultural history to astronomy; and from 18 TRAVEL PLANNER Bulgaria to Burma! 19 TRAVELLERS’ COMMUNITY SUPPORT ALUMNI OUTREACH The Alumni Office receives a contribution from the tour 19 TOUR OPERATORS operators for each booking. The proceeds support alumni engagement activities. MAKING THE MOST OF THIS BROCHURE At the bottom of each trip you will find the name and phone number for the relevant tour operator (email and website details are on p19). Contact the tour operator directly to be sent a full itinerary for any trips of interest. You can see an overview of all of the trips in 2013 organised by date of departure on p20. www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/travel EUROPE Oxford Alumni Travellers 2013 ADVENTURE – CRUISE CULTURAL Polar Nights and Mystical Art Treasures of Northern Lights St Petersburg DATE: 5–10 February 2013 DATE: 2–7 March 2013 PRICE: £1,529 PRICE: £2,060 The beautiful city of St Petersburg, often known as the ‘Venice Take a voyage along Norway’s stunning coastline at a time of the North’, was founded by Peter the Great to demonstrate when solar activity is expected to reach its peak, offering a that Russia was a major power with its roots firmly fixed in high chance of witnessing the spectacular Northern Lights. Europe. This tour has been specially planned for when the Starting with a discussion of the aurorae and the other effects snow makes the city picturesque, the theatres are open and the the sun can have on the earth, we will take a whistle-stop tour vodka and furs come out. Enjoy the wonderful architecture of the universe and explore the night sky, as well as looking at and superb museums without the crowds. the effects of climate change on the landscape closer by. Highlights Highlights Two visits to the Hermitage with its unrivalled collection of European and Russian art At least one session on deck at night exploring the heavens Day excursion to Tsarkoye Selo, the spectacular town of Lectures giving an overview of the night sky and background Imperial Palaces about the aurorae Visits to the Peter and Paul Fortress and Yussopev Palace Comfortable voyage along the beautiful Norwegian coastline Enjoy an excursion to the magnificent residence of the 17th Two nights in Tromsø and 18th Century Royal families at Petrodvorets Excursion to the North Cape, Honningsvåg Experience Russia’s wonderful winter scenery Trip Scholar The journey can be extended to include a four-day visit to Roger Davies is the Philip Wetton Professor of Astrophysics Russia’s traditional ‘Holy Mother’ – Moscow at Oxford University and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. His research interests centre on cosmology and how Trip Scholar galaxies form and evolve. Professor Alexei Leporc is a Curator of Western European Art at the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. As well as his curatorial Additional tour date: 8–13 March 2013. The trip scholar will be responsibilities, he is also Professor of 15th–20th Century Dr Ian Willis from the Scott Polar Research Institute. Dr Willis is Western European Art and Architecture at St Petersburg Europe a glaciologist and will lecture on this field as well as the night sky University. Professor Leporc has accompanied several highly and aurorae. successful Oxford alumni visits to Russia. HURTIGRUTEN +44 (0)20 88462633 Distant Horizons +44 (0)151 6253425 Price is per person for double occupancy of an inside cabin and includes flights from Price includes flights from London and air passenger duty. UK, full board on the ship, two nights bed and breakfast hotel stay in Tromsø. Price for single occupancy from £1,729 for an inside cabin. 4 | www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/travel Oxford Alumni Travellers 2013 CULTURAL HISTORICAL Salzburg Easter Music Festival Amazing Anatolia World-class music in Mozart’s city Cappadocia, the Hittite Empire and the enigmatic statues of Nemrut Dağ DATE: 27 March–2 April 2013 DATE: 26 June–7 July 2013 PRICE: £2,490 PRICE: £2,995 Visit the baroque city of Salzburg for the annual Easter Music The Hittites were one of the most powerful empires of the Festival. Appropriately for the Wagner 200th anniversary Bronze Age, leaving impressive remains at their capital, year, the Festival will be distinguished by a new production Hattusas, as well as at Alaca Hüyük, which has magnificent of his opera Parsifal. The concert programme focuses on tombs. Nearby are the fairy chimneys of GÖreme where rock- three composers: Beethoven, Brahms and Henze. Works by hewn churches contain superb Byzantine frescoes. At Nemrut Schumann, Henze and Brahms will feature in the chamber Dağ, the Hierotheseion of Antiochos, the mountainside is music concerts. Excursions will bring alive the historical and littered with giant statues of lions, gods and the king himself. musical heritage of Salzburg and its surroundings. Highlights Highlights Museum of Anatolian civilizations at Ankara with Neolithic Wagner: Parsifal and Bronze Age masterpieces Brahms: A German Requiem Hittite Capital of Hattusas with huge Great Temple Hans Werner Henze – première of a new work: Isoldes Tod Spectacular Byzantine frescoes and underground cities of Beethoven: 2 Piano Concertos (Nos. 4 and 5) and Mahler: Cappadocia Symphony 1 in D major Neo-Hittite sites of Arslantepe and Karatepe, with its famous Private tour of original manuscripts in the Mozart archives Sphynx gate Excursions through the Salzkammergut and to Lake Hike up to the world-famous mausoleum of Antiochus on Chiemsee Nemrut Dağ Trip Scholar Trip Scholar Professor John Deathridge (Lincoln, 1964), currently King Dr David Price Williams is an archaeologist and has excavated on Edward Professor of Music at King’s College London, is one of classical sites in Turkey, the Middle East and Southern Africa. He the world’s foremost classical music experts. He is a Fellow of specialises in the Bronze Age of the Middle East, the period of the Royal College of Organists and continues to be active as a the Hittites. He has taught Middle Eastern Archaeology at London performer. His main area of research is 19th and 20th Century University for many years and led many alumni tours to Turkey. German music. His latest book is Wagner Beyond Good and Evil. ACE CULTURAL TOURS +44 (0)1223 841055 TEMPLE WORLD + 44 (0)20 89404114 Price includes flights from London, accommodation based on sharing a twin/double Price includes flights from London, air passenger duty, double or twin rooms with room, six concert performances, breakfast, two dinners and four lunches, excursions private facilities, full board, guided excursions, all entrance fees. Single supplement and admissions. Single room supplement £150. £495. 5 | www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/travel EUROPE Oxford Alumni Travellers 2013 CRUISE – HISTORICAL CRUISE – HISTORICAL Croatia’s Dalmatian Coast Provence and the Camargue Exclusive yacht cruise from Split Luxury barge cruise from Avignon to Dubrovnik to Aigues Mortes DATE: 30 June–7 July 2013 DATE: 28 July–3 August 2013 PRICE: £2,450 PRICE: £2,680 The hauntingly beautiful Dalmatian Coast has variously been Meander along the Rhone River through the stunning scenery occupied by the Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Ottomans, of the Provence and Languedoc-Roussillon regions in the Austro Hungarians, and for almost 700 years by the Venetians. deluxe 18-passenger air-conditioned hotel barge, Le Phenicien. The incredible architectural, artistic, religious and cultural Discover the history of this fascinating area and explore legacy found at Split, Dubrovnik, Hvar and Korkula is the sites, with the unique perspective and insights offered explored as we travel in supreme comfort aboard the yacht by Professor McKitterick. Beautiful Provençal food will be M/S Barbara, with just 16 cabins, all ensuite. prepared by the onboard chef and there will be an excellent selection of local wines served with meals. Highlights Roman Emperor Diocletian’s imposing Palace at Split Highlights Churches and Dominican Monastery on the island of Hvar Explore the impressive Medieval Palais de Papes Wonderfully preserved Medieval city at Korcula Discover the amazing Roman aqueduct at Avignon Stunning coastal scenery studded with islands including Visit the 14th Century walled city of Aigues Mortes Mljet National Park Superb classical theatre in the Roman city of Arles Sponza Palace and Placa Stradun in the magnificent walled Wine-tasting at Chateauneuf-du-Pape city of Dubrovnik Special extra historical visits arranged by our trip scholar Exclusive charter of luxury sailing cruiser with onboard chef Trip Scholar Trip Scholar Professor Rosamond McKitterick is Chair in Medieval History Dr Peter Sarris (Balliol, 1990) read Modern History before being at Cambridge University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical elected to a Prize Fellowship at All Souls College. He is now Society and her research interests cover the political, cultural, University Senior Lecturer in Late Roman, Early Medieval and intellectual, religious and social history of Europe in the early Byzantine History and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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