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Join our cruise of the Yangtze River in China! This img002.jpg (229606 bytes)is a SLIDE show with text commentary. Click HERE to begin. Once you have viewed the slide show, the pictures will load instantly thereafter. Photographer, Lisa Middleton, guarantees you'll be glad you were patient about the downloads! If you are looking for high resolution versions of these photos please contact Lisa directly.

 Oh, my dear fellow riverboat travelers, you will love this clip from the New York Times...Click on the photo. If you would like to enter your thoughts on allowing the DQ to continue to operate on American Rivers, click the links below the photo. Then go to our BLOG at  http://www.greatriver.com/wordpress/  and see another great video and more on the debate. Click here for info on the final 2008 DELTA QUEEN Steamboat Cruise Schedule.


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Click photo to see review by Alan Fox of his trip to Cairo, Egypt and Cruising the Nile

 

 Cairo, Egypt, and Cruising the Nile River!
    We'd been traveling for nearly 24 hours since leaving Savute Elephant Camp in Botswana, but our excitement at finally reaching the Land of the Pharaohs was impossible to contain. Ahead of us that great, ancient city was coming to life as it had every day for more than a thousand years.

 

 

    DESTINATION MEXICO!  Every year, in late summer and early fall, millions of Monarch butterflies from the Eastern United States and Southern Canada begin a journey of 2000 miles to the Transvolcanic Mountain Range, located west of Mexico City. How YOU can make the journey to see them clustered by the MILLIONS....

Click for story: Co-ed pool and respite area "on the roof" at the Kohler Water Spa. Photo courtesy of Kohler Company.Destination SPA .... The Kohler Waters Spa
at the American Club Resort
Kohler, Wisconsin  Click SPA photo to see story!

 

Click photo to see our birding/whaling excursion to San Jose del Cabo  Just Back from ...
San Jose del Cabo on the Sea of Cortez!   Estuary Birding and Snorkeling and WHALES...

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 Cajun_bf96.gif (11171 bytes)The River Barge Explorer, Cajun Country, and New Orleans (Lower Mississippi River) 

 

 

Map of the Rhone River Delta, FranceThe Rhone River Delta and the French Camargue France is a country full of distinctive "regions" and one of the least visited is the Camargue Region of Southern France. Tour the Petit Rhone in an authentic steamboat, stay at a "dude ranch" and work the bulls with the Gardians!

 

rosa.GIF (27855 bytes) Barging on the Canal du Midi
Southern France and the Mississippi River Connection  New! We've posted our photo album!

 

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America's Great River Road, the UPPER Mississippi.

Birding in the Riparian Habitats of SE Arizona.
            We recently visited the San Pedro River Basin in Southeast Arizona. Like the Bosque del Apache and the Platte River in Nebraska, wetlands in Arizona are home to thousands of wintering Sandhill Cranes and other birds.  
Riparian = water-dependant environments

 

Wilderness! Wilderness? Explore the exquisite world renown natural beauty of the Canadian Rocky Mountains... Jasper and Banff National Parks, Lake Beauvert, and Lake Louise. CLICK HERE

Click photo for a complete review of our VIA RAIL journey from Vancouver to Jasper  Canada's Classic Train Journey, Vancouver to Jasper, along the Fraser and Thompson Rivers... CLICK photo left

The Strait of Georgia, Desolation Sound, Howe Sound, and innumerable inlets and islets make British Columbia's Sunshine Coast a signularly scenic and soul-satisfying journey.   The BC Ferry System makes possible a fascinating road trip along the Strait of Georgia in British Columbia's breathtakingly beautiful Sunshine Coast. "10 Best Bets" and a sample itinerary!

 

 

 

pathikes.jpg (10974 bytes) The Flathead River and Glacier National Park.  The Chinese will tell you that a scenic arrangement of Mountain, River and Forest denotes a propitious .... or charmed .... location. There were once legions of professionals employed by Emperors to locate such rare locales. Somehow they missed Glacier National Park and the three forks of the Flathead River. We did not! Montanta's mountains, rivers and lakes provide outstanding adventure for hikers, backpackers, and rafters of all ages.   [Please allow Extra time for loading...lots of pictures here!]

 

 Classic Train Journey, Anchorage/Seward, Alaska

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To Glacier National Park and The Izaak Walton Inn  ....Footsteps of the Empire Builder

 

October on the Mississippi! Mississippi River Houseboating with Fun 'N The Sun Houseboat Vacations

 

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The JBS and her Steamboating Fraternity
(Steamboating on the Upper Mississippi)

 

Paddlewheeler Day Cruises, Sight-Seeing Cruises, and Dinner Cruises are among the most popular visitor activities along the Mississippi River. Click here to experience the typical offerings of riverboat cruises available in such places as St. Paul, Galena, Winona, Alton, St. Louis, Hannibal, La Crosse, and many other small towns along the Mississippi.

 

     Cruising with the St. Lawrence Cruiseline from Kingston to Montreal and Quebec City.      
          Small boat river cruising at it's most comfortable, and scenic best! 

 

Skybridge was a great place to spend the evening at Huck's Houseboat Vacations.

      Houseboat Cruising on the Upper Mississippi River  
    The REAL Huck Finn Experience!

 

We found a wealth of varied terrain, wildlife, and beautiful scenery along the Oregon coast. Roads were great, towns had character! Touring the Oregon Coast, Newport to Astoria
                       One can't cruise the Columbia River without touring the rugged coastline and windswept beaches of Oregon so close to Portland!  This road trip through fishing villages, upscale resorts, and vast wilderness areas,  is a great compliment to cruising the Columbia River.

  

 
 The Columbia Queen carries up to 150 passengers and 60 all-American crew.

   Cruising the Columbia and Snake Rivers 

      It was first of all the Columbia River and the inaugural cruise season of the sparkling Columbia Queen that drew us west. What we remember best is the cultural and scenic richness and variety of our journey westward from the vast forests surrounding Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia River to Hell's Canyon and the highland deserts along the Snake River in Idaho.

 

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