Tours & cruises

Book soon for UCLA’s “Mustangs: A Living Legacy” course, during which you’ll get four days of exploration and education about the wild horses of California and Nevada.

Dates: June 6 to 9

Price: From $750 per person, including tuition, instruction, use of horses, riding and related equipment, tents and meals but not including transportation to and from River Springs, Calif.

CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA

Wild horses

Info: UCLA Extension, Los Angeles; (310) 825-7093, www.uclaextension.edu/r/Course.aspx?reg=U7710

CHINA

China tour

Face Xi’ian’s terra-cotta soldiers, pace Tiananmen Square and marvel at metropolitan Shanghai with Friendly Planet Travel’s “A Taste of China” tour.

Itinerary: Beijing, Xi’ian and Shanghai

Dates: Multiple 10-day departures between July 1 and March 24, 2010

Price: From $1,099, if booked by June 17 (double occupancy, single supplement from $249), including round-trip airfare from Los Angeles, ground transfers, intra-China flights, hotel accommodations, entrance fees, all breakfasts, four lunches and guided sightseeing.

Info: Friendly Planet Travel, Jenkintown, Pa.; (800) 555-5765, www.friendly

ITALY AND CROATIA

Adriatic cruise

Cruise through the Adriatic Sea and the Gulf of Squillace by booking the Yachts of Seabourn’s “Italian Idyll” itinerary.

Dates: July 11 to 18

Itinerary: Venice to Hvar, Bari, Sicily, Lipari Island, Sorrento and Civitavecchia

Price: From $2,999 per person (double occupancy), including all food and entertainment, an open bar and gratuities.

Info: The Yachts of Seabourn, Miami; (800) 929-9391, www.seabourn.com

GREECE

Grecian odyssey

Experience the best of Greece during Gutsy Women Travel’s all-female “10 Day Grecian Odyssey,” which hits big must-dos such as the Acropolis as well as lower-key experiences, such as dinner with an Athenian family.

Itinerary: Athens, Santorini, Mykonos

Dates: Two 10-day departures, leaving Aug. 27 and Sept. 24.

Price: Starting at $3,659 per person (double occupancy), including intra-island flights and ferry transport, upscale accommodations, some meals, a reception and tour manager.

Info: Gutsy Women Travel, Fort Washington, Pa.; (866) 464-8879, www.gutsywomentravel.com/greece-escorted-

THE CARIBBEAN

Motown cruise

Celebrate Motown’s 50th anniversary with many living legends, including the Temptations, during the “Heatwave Celebrity Cruise” to Mexico on Royal Caribbean’s Navigator of the Seas.

Itinerary: Miami to Cozumel, Mexico, and back

Dates: Jan. 7 to 11

Price: Starting at $510 (double occupancy, single supplement $720), including lodging, most meals, nonalcoholic beverages, gratuities, transfers, taxes and fees but not including airfare and fuel surcharges.

Info: Heatwave Celebrity Cruise, Detroit; (561) 625-1951, heatwavecelebritycruise.com

-- Avital Binshtock

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