2017 Tour to Brazil, Argentina, and Iguazu Falls -- Itinerary

We are planning our next tour and it will be to Brazil and Argentina in South America!  The 10-day tour is June 19-28, 2017.

Get ready for some fun and adventure on one of our most exciting tours yet!  And marvel at one of the most fantastic waterfalls in the world…the majestic Iguazu Falls on the Brazil/Argentina border.  Highlights of the tour include: the iconic Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, a tour of the famous Rio beaches, boat cruise on Rio’s Guanabara Bay, samba dance lessons, viewing the massive Iguazu Falls from two different countries, boat ride right up to the falls, jeep tour and hike the forests surrounding the falls and see capuchin monkeys and toucans in their natural habitat, and enjoy a Fiesta Gaucha at an Argentine ranch to enjoy gaucho competitions, traditional folk dances, and horseback riding.

Better yet…we will be traveling in South America’s winter…and that’s a wonderful 80 degrees!  Rio de Janeiro will play host to the 2016 Summer Olympics…and that means the city will still be all spruced up when we arrive in 2017.

To get a closer look at what you will experience on the tour, then watch the slide show below  that highlights these locations and many more.  Simply click on this link, or click in the box below.  (Note: I’ve found it works best when viewing with the Google Chrome browser.)

2017 Brazil and Argentina slide show

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Brazil, Argentina, and Iguazu Falls

Itinerary

Day 1: Fly overnight to Brazil

Day 2: Rio de Janeiro (3 nights)

Arrive in Rio de Janeiro

Take a guided tour of Rio de Janeiro with your expert local guide to see:
--Catedral Metropolitana

--Pyramid Fountain

--Imperial Palace

--São Bento Monastery

--November 15 Square

Day 3: Rio de Janeiro

Visit Corcovado Mountain and view the Christ the Redeemer statue

Enjoy an authentic BBQ lunch

Take a tour of Rio's beaches

Time to explore on your own

Day 4: Rio de Janeiro

Enjoy a cruise of Guanabara Bay with views of Sugarloaf Mountain

Visit a Samba School

Participate in a Samba lesson

Day 5: Iguazu Falls (2 nights)

Fly to Iguazu Falls, with 275 falls cascading over a precipice nearly 2 miles wide and 269 feet high!

Jeep ride through Iguazu National Park and watch for 400 bird species including toucans, parakeets, hummingbirds and 2,000 plant varieties

Hike through the forest and watch for exotic wildlife including capuchin monkeys, tapirs, and coatis

Day 6: Iguazu Falls

View the falls from the Brazilian side

Ride a boat right up to the falls

Day 7: Iguazu • Buenos Aires (2 nights)

View the falls from the Argentine side

Fly to Buenos Aires

Day 8: Buenos Aires

Take a guided tour of Buenos Aires with your expert local guide to see:

--National Congress
--Plaza de Mayo

--Casa Rosado

--the Cabildo (first city hall)

--San Telmo, the city’s oldest barrio

--colorful La Boca District

--Colón Theater

--Palermo

--Recoleta and a visit to Eva Peron’s grave (Evita)

Time to explore on your own or add this optional excursion: Tango lesson

Day 9: Buenos Aires

Participate in a traditional Fiesta Gaucha ranch visit

--Authentic barbecue

--Gaucho horsemanship competitions

--Folk dancing

--Horseback riding

Board an overnight flight

Day 10: Arrive home

2015 Slide Show of Tour Highlights

Experience Ireland and the Scottish Highlands

We are planning our next tour and it will be to beautiful Ireland and the Scottish Highlands.  The 10-day tour is June 22-July 1, 2015.

This is a one-of-kind customized tour combining some unique sites not found in many tours to Ireland and Scotland.  Highlights of the tour include: a train ride through the Scottish Highlands, the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland, and the Cliffs of Moher on the Atlantic shores of Ireland.

If your heritage traces back to Ireland, then you’ll be able to step back in time at the Ulster American Folk Park and see just how your ancestors lived before immigrating to the New World.  And if nature is what you prefer, there will be no end to the diversity you’ll enjoy!

To get a closer look at what you will experience on the tour, then watch the slide show below that highlights these locations and many more.  Simply click on this link, or click in the box below.  (Note: I’ve found it works best when viewing with the Google Chrome browser. Also it uses Flash Player so may not play on iPads or iPhones, so use link above.)

2015 Ireland Scotland Tour

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Join Us for Our 2013 East Europe Tour - Slide Show

We are planning our next tour and it will be to East Europe to the countries of Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary. The 10-day tour is June 17-26, 2013.

On this tour we will visit the great cities of Berlin, Prague, Krakow, and Budapest. Highlights will include the Berlin Wall, Prague Castle, Auschwitz-Berkinau, and an evening Danube River cruise!

And if you would like to see the slide presentation of the sites we will visit on this tour that I presented at our introduction meeting Oct. 9, simply click on this link, or click in the box below. (Note: I have found it works best when viewing with the Google Chrome browser.)

East Europe 2013 Tour

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Sharing Trip Photos

Now that you are home and rested, it’s time to play with those thousands of photos you took of beautiful Greece! Here are a few options for you (the titles are links to the sites):

A. WALGREENS – I created a photo sharing site on Walgreens just for our tour. Go to the Walgreens site , click on Photo at the top, and login at the top right with the username and password I sent you in an email. To upload photos you took for others to see (and share!), just click on “Upload Photos” in the upper left under Photo Home and click Agree to the Copyright Statement.

Name the album with your name, pick a date and write a description, then Select Photos. Now go to your trip album on your computer and hold the shift key to select multiple photos at one time. Each one will load into your Walgreens album.

You can order from Walgreens directly from your computer (I love this feature as I sit at home in my PJs and edit pictures, send them to my local Walgreens, and they are ready in an hour to pick up…and I can pay in the store! Way easier than sitting for hours in store.) And many times Walgreens offers 10 cent prints via email messages (I just get photos ready to print and let them sit in a folder on my computer until I see a deal and then they are ready to send at a minute’s notice).

I also like that sometimes Walgreens offers email deals for a free 8x10 or a free collage photo. No other purchase is necessary. I just send it through my computer at home and go pick it up…for FREE!

But you do not have to order photos from Walgreens that others upload to our site. To view any album, even if you do not upload any photos, simply login and click on any album to view photos. You can click on View Slideshow to see all the photos in an album, or just click on any one photo to view larger. If you want to choose a photo to add to your own album on your computer, simply click on the photo to make it larger, then right click on the photo and choose “Save Picture As…”, find the folder on your computer, and just make sure it saves as a .jpg. Then print as you please.

B. PICASA – I like using this free photo editing program from Google. I especially like it because it allows me to lighten those photos I took that are too dark (no flash allowed places) and actually see what was inside. It also will let you straighten a photo when you were a little crooked when you took it so all buildings don’t look like the Leaning Tower of Pisa! I also like that I can crop out unwanted items, too much sky, or zoom in to the main feature of a photo. When I get through editing, I appear to be a much better photographer than I really was!

Other features include adding sepia tones, making it black and white, and other color enhancing tools. I like that it will crop my pictures to exact print sizes…4x6, 5x7, 8x10 because a digital camera usually takes a more square photo, but that is not the size that is printed commercially or that fits into albums or frames. It lets you choose what you want cropped out of the picture rather than the photo printer. What it will not do…clear up your blurry photos. Sorry!

C. SMILEBOX – This free site is like an online scrapbook. You take your online photos and videos, add their designs and music and create slideshows, scrapbooks, greetings, photo albums, invitations, and collages. You can share your creations on Facebook, email, blogs, print at home or store, or burn to a DVD. It’s fun to play with and easy to use. I used it as our Christmas greeting on the blog last year and it would be perfect to share your favorite trip photos with friends and family.

D. PHOTO STORY 3 – This free download for creating a slideshow with your trip photos adds another new dimension…your voice! Easy to use, Photo Story 3 lets you add your photos, music (theirs or your own), and record your voice narrating each photo. This is a fantastic way to work in all those fun stories that a photo reminds you of. For complete details on how to use this tool, go to my library technology blog LUV2LEARN2.

E. TRIP WOW – This free slideshow creator from Trip Advisor adds another unique feature. In addition to putting music with your photos, you can also create an Indiana-Jones style animated map that shows our route on the trip!

You can download the slideshow you create on the site to your computer or burn it to a DVD. You can also share with family and friends via Facebook, email, or another web site.

Enjoy!

Happy Holidays from the Farmers - 2010

This photo slideshow made with Smilebox

Join Us for Our Athens and the Islands Tour!

We are planning our next tour and it will be to Athens with a 4-day Greek Isle cruise to Mykonos, Patmos, Rhodes, Crete, and Santorini with a stop in Kusadasi, Turkey to tour Ephesus. The 10-day tour is June 16-25, 2011.

This tour combines highlights from multi-cultural periods including Classical Greek, Byzantine, Roman, medieval, and the ancient Minoan civilization with all the natural beauty of island life on the Aegean Sea.

For a full itinerary from EF Tours...

For complete cruise details from EF Tours...

For a video on the Greek Isle cruise from Louis Cruise Lines...

And if you would like to see the slide presentation of the sites we will visit on this tour that I presented at our introduction meeting Sept. 13...

Athens and the Islands

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