{"id":14729,"date":"2010-01-14T23:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T23:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/fly-coach-cruise-rail-stay-south-america-and-galapagos-4\/"},"modified":"2010-01-14T23:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T23:18:00","slug":"fly-coach-cruise-rail-stay-south-america-and-galapagos-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2010\/01\/fly-coach-cruise-rail-stay-south-america-and-galapagos-4\/","title":{"rendered":"FLY, COACH, CRUISE, RAIL &amp; STAY SOUTH AMERICA AND GALAPAGOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/S0-mQF9VQWI\/AAAAAAAAH3s\/UGjjOD2GCYU\/s1600-h\/ECUDOR-La-Pinta-704147.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/S0-mQF9VQWI\/AAAAAAAAH3s\/UGjjOD2GCYU\/s320\/ECUDOR-La-Pinta-704147.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A truly rare 19-night fly, coach, cruise, rail and stay package to South America and the Galapagos Islands in April of next year has an almost regal touch to it \u2013 the just-40 Australians who&#8217;ll participate in this tour will have the personal services during a private 5-star yacht visit to Galapagos of the guide chosen to escort a British royal there several years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Created by founder and chairman of <a href=\"http:\/\/ecruising.travel\/\">ecruising.travel<\/a>, Brett Dudley and his wife Philippa who will jointly lead the tour, it features 12-nights fully-escorted private-coach touring in Chile, Peru and Ecuador with an English-speaking guide, 7-nights private-charter on the yacht La Pinta to Galapagos with all onboard meals, drinks with dinner, daily lectures and briefings, plus sea kay-aking, Zodiacs, glass bottom boats, snorkelling, a stargazing program \u2013 and \u00a0that British royal&#8217;s one-time personal guide, Francisco &#8220;Pancho&#8221; Dousdebes.<\/p>\n<p>And the visit to Galapagos will coincide with the annual frenetic breeding season of one of the world&#8217;s greatest single gatherings of bird- and sea-life.<\/p>\n<p>The package also includes a full-day&#8217;s wine-tasting tour on Chile&#8217;s Cachapoal Wine Route, and a 2-day visit to Machu Picchu aboard the luxury Hiram Bingham Deluxe Train with private English-speaking guides; there is also a day trip to Valparaiso and luxury hotels are used throughout.<\/p>\n<p>The whole 19-nights is priced from $13,399pp twin-share from Sydney on March 31 next year*; for a fully-detailed 11-page itinerary and inclusions phone 1300 369 848 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecruising.travel\/\">www.ecruising.travel<\/a>\u00a0 *An optional 4-nights to Easter Island is available at extra cost on the way home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A truly rare 19-night fly, coach, cruise, rail and stay package to South America and the Galapagos Islands in April of next year has an almost regal touch to it \u2013 the just-40 Australians who&#8217;ll participate in this tour will have the personal services during a private 5-star yacht visit to Galapagos of the guide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-14729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ecruising"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}