

Worldwide Travel Talks of Tucson, Arizona
Worldwide Travel Talks meets the second* Sunday of the month, September through May, at the Nanini Library. This library is located at 7300 North Shannon Road, in the Northwest Tucson area. Participants of the club meet to enjoy presentations which may include slides, videos, photographs, brochures, etc. of their trips. We have no dues, nor elected officers.
Meetings are held from 2:30 PM until 4:30 PM. All are welcome to attend. For further information please call George Eddington at 520-825-8956 (EDDINGTON5@aol.com), Dolores Rohrer at 520-296-1986 (doloresrohrer@cox.net), or Dick Englert at 520-721-8857 (dickenglert@cox.net).
The International Travel News magazine provides our club with publicity. A link to their web page is located at the bottom of this page.
* some holiday exceptions
2013 tentative program schedule:
May 12 - Turkey
We did a 29 day tour of Turkey with Cultural Folk Tours in March/April 2011. This is way too much ground to cover in one hour (5,000 miles, in fact) so we will be confining this show to Istanbul and Eastern Turkey. We will still barely scratch the surface of locations rich with Hittite, Roman, Christian, and Ottoman history. Our route goes from Istanbul due east to the Hittite ruins at Yazilikaya and along the coast of the Black Sea. From Amasya, we travel to the Silk Road Seaport of Trabzon, then inland through Kurdish villages, viewing the Euphrates River Valley from an 8K ft. summit as we head to the Turkish-Armenian border. We stay at Kars, visiting the fortified walls and Armenian Orthodox ruins at Ani, then skirt the Iranian border and Mt.Ararat on the way to Van (in the news after a major earthquake last year). We continue past Iraq ,along the Syrian border to Urfa, birthplace of the prophet Abraham and a place of pilgrimage for both Christians and Muslims, driving up Mt. Nemrut for a hiking adventure. After taking a side trip to Ankara, we end this, the less-traveled part of the tour, in Cappadocia. By John & Gayle Swarbrick
June, July, & August, there will be no meetings
Links to club member travel web pages:
Phyllis & Nordien Jackson www.jacksontravel.blogspot.com
Roger & Bettye Root www.toten.info/~roger/travel
List of the past five years of programs:
2008
Jan. –
Feb. – Route of the Maya – Bill Klett
Mar. – The
Fjords of
Apr. – Easter Island & Peru - Phyllis & Nordien Jackson
May -
Sept. Indonesia &
Oct. –
Nov. – Cruise
Dec. – Cruise
Jan. –
Feb. –
Mar. –
Apr. –
May – River Cruise –
Sept. – Trinidad & Tobago – Dave Hamlin
Oct. –
Nov. –
Dec. – Egypt & Jordan – Karen Hahn
Jan. –
Feb. – 40 years of travel – Bill Klett
Mar. –
Apr. –
May. –
Sept. – Cruise - South American, Pacific side – Roger & Bettye Root
Oct. – Cruise –
Nov. –
Dec. –
Jan. –
Feb. –
Mar. – Route of the Maya – Karen Hahn
Apr. – Walking
May – South
Sept. – Bicycle Tour of
Oct. –
Nov. – South
Dec. – Inca Empire & Machu Picchu – Gordon McCall
2012
Jan. – Walking the
Feb. –
Mar. - The Riches of Rome - Jan McGary
Apr. - Tanzania and Rwanda - Karen Hahn
May - Gilded Age - Jan McGary
Sept. - Switzerland from the village of Murren – Karen Hahn
Oct. - South Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic - Jan McGary
Nov. - The Baltic Capitals, St. Petersburg and Moscow - Dick Englert and Dee Rohrer
Dec. - A Path Less Traveled: Hiking in France - Gordon McCall
2013
Jan. - Dick Englert and Dee Rohrer - North and South Islands of New Zealand
Feb. – Willy and Steve Campos - Romania and Moldova: Transylvania to Transdniestr
Mar. - Karen Hahn - Napal
Apr. - Dick Englert and Dee Rohrer - Africa
xxxx - Skipping around the World
Several short features on highlights of our many years of travel. Starting with Hiroshima, Japan sixty years after the devastation of the A-Bomb; hopping across the sea to Xian, China for a quick tour of the site of the Terra Cotta Warriors. Then on to Athens, Greece and a day trip to Kalampaka at the base of Meteora Monastaries. From Greece we hop to Hallstatt, Austria for a quick look at this charming town and the Bone House at the local catholic parish church where you will see over 1,000 decorated skulls from the 18th C. After a night in the Sahara Desert where we traveled by camel and slept in tents, we'll end our journey with an add-on of Dick and Dee's presentation (2011) of their trip to southern Chile. You'll see our pictures of a muddy Iguazu Falls (November) and our hiking on the Moreno Glacier, just across the Chilean border in Argentina. We will also show our breathtaking up-close pictures of the San Rafael Glacier in Chile. By Phyllis & Nordien Jackson

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Last update Apr 15, 2013