GROUP TOUR: PERSONALITIES IN THE MIX Some group tours are for specific groups, members some of which are known by each other but most are an assemblage of strangers. For example I went to Southeast Asia with university alumnae the majority on this trip from Canadian universities. I did not know any of the 16Continue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)”
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RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)
ON A GROUP TOUR: WHO IS LEADING THE TROOPS Group tours are guided by an itinerary designed by the tour company. A schedule of activities is in the itinerary and a timeframe for execution. This is not to say every minute is planned. There are often slots of free time to pursue your own activities.Continue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)”
RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)
ON A GROUP TOUR: IN THE ARMY NOW Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and Cambodia in four days. 8 flights in 14 days. All this is an ambitious undertaking. In joining a tour group you lose a great deal of independence. You are a prisoner of an itinerary. Up at 4:30 a.m. to catch that ferry. AContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)”
RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)
WHY THESE DESTINATIONS? Being a dedicated Europhile feeling most at home particularly in Portugal and Greece I have been willingly absconded to Southeast Asia by a “significant birthday” present and no I am not referring to 65…God no! Being an “Ugly Canadian” but not along the 1958 novel “The Ugly American” it is not theContinue reading “RKS 2025 Travel: Destination Southeast Asia (Short Attention Span Version)”
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