Come explore along with other fascinating people who share your passion for travel and VPR. Vermont Public Radio's cultural tours are designed to immerse you in a region's culture, history and music.

» NEW: Gardens of England with Charlie Nardozzi, May 2009

» Patagonia with Willem Lange, January/February 2009

» Costa Rica with Ted Levin, April 2010

Join Vermont Public Radio and gardening expert Charlie Nardozzi on a trip to England this spring to the incomparable Chelsea Flower Show and great gardens in the Cornwall area.

The trip will run May 19 - 27, 2009. Included will be tours of the Chelsea Flower Show (the preeminent flower show in the world), Wisley Gardens, The Eden Project, The Lost Gardens of Heligan, Rosemoor RHS, and more. We'll visit a typical English garden center, tour Bath, visit Stonehenge, and have time to stroll the beautiful countryside of Cornwall.

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To register call Deb Flanders at Goodspeed and Bach, 802-652-0245 or via email at debflanders (at) comcast (dot) net.

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Join VPR commentator Willem Lange as he fulfills a lifelong dream of exploring Patagonia January 29-February 8, 2009. The highlight of the tour will be a five day cruise through the Strait of Magellan, traveling to Southern Patagonia, including Tierra de Fuego. The trip will conclude with dinner and a tango show in Buenos Aires. Travel to the "uttermost part of the earth" with fellow VPR listeners for the trip of a lifetime!

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» To register please call Music Contact International at 800-624-0166 or via e-mail at: travel (at) music-contact (dot) com

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Originally planned for April 2009, this trip is now scheduled for April 2010. Join naturalist and VPR commentator Ted Levin on a nature lover's trek through Costa Rica where you'll see some of the best wildlife conservation in the world.

About the size of West Virginia, politically stable and democratic, peace-loving Costa Rica has conserved more than 25% of its land as national parks and wildlife reserves and supports 5% of all the known species on Earth. A panoply of dry-forests, jungles and cloud forests, lowlands and mountains, laced by rivers and streams, punctuated by active volcanoes, Costa Rica's bio-diversity is astounding and thrilling. We'll have the chance to see noisy howler monkeys and neon-blue morpho butterflies as big as saucers, American crocodiles and speckled caimans. Bird watching in Costa Rica is unparalleled. We'll see resplendent quetzals and scarlet macaws.  In all, there are more than 820 species of resident and neotropical migrant birds. We may see pokey three-toed sloths, slow and deliberate enough for algae to grow on their backs, jaguars and ocelots. Five species of sea turtles nest on the shores of Costa Rica, including Earths' largest arribada - between 400,000 and a million olive Ridleys - so thick that the beach at Ostional looks like a cobblestone boulevard paved with turtle shells.

Details of the trip will be forthcoming. Please stop back here, or to be added to the mailing list for a brochure please contact Ty Robertson at 802-654-4309 or by email.