All shows are presented at the elegant Scottish Rite Center in downtown Portland at 1512 SW Morrison, between SW 15th & SW 16th Avenues on the MAX Light Rail Line, within a half mile of some of Portland’s finest dining. The center is handicap accessible from street level. Click here to see a map.

Start your journey in the laid back Bohemian city of Prague. Cruise along the Main, Rhine and Moselle Rivers to trace the history of Europe’s heartland with the color and excitement of castles, small towns, and Europe’s finest wine area.  The final destination is Paris, the City of Light, bright and bustling with history and tradition at every turn.
Highlights Include: Prague: The Astronomical Clock • Mala Strana National Park • Landmark Charles Bridge • Wenceslas Square • The Cruise: Bamberg • Wertheim • Miltenberg • Rudesheim • Koblenz • Cochem • Trier • Smetana Hall • Paris: Eiffel Tower • The Louvre Museum • Luxembourg Gardens • Notre Dame Cathedral •  Arch de Triumph • Napoleon’s Tomb • Avenue de Champs Elysees • Celebration of Bastille Day • Cemetery Pere La Chaise.

Visitors to Vietnam may be overwhelmed by the sublime beauty of its natural setting.  Along this coastal strip lies a patchwork of brilliant green rice paddies, divine beaches, and stilt villages in contrast to the busy bustling cities. Influenced by Chinese and French cultures, the Vietnamese have maintained a strong sense of their own uniqueness.
Highlights Include: Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon): Catholic Notre Dame Cathedral • Reunification Palace (old Presidential Palace of Saigon) • Mekong Delta: Can Tho, Chau Duc; Nha Trang seaside resort • Danang and China Beach • Historic Hoi An • Hue and UNESCO World Heritage Site of Hue Museum of Royal Fine Arts • Hanoi-Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and House, water puppet theater • The spectacular mountains along famous Ha Long Bay.

Despite the 2005 destruction of this area by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, there are still beautiful places to visit and wonderful things to experience.  This 1700 mile adventure begins at Sanibel Island, FL and ends at Padre Island, Texas. Observe an amazing array of birds, mammals, marine life, flora, and fauna.
Highlights Include: Florida: Sanibel Island •JN Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge • St. George Island • St. Joseph Peninsula • Alabama: Gulf Shores • Dauphin Island • Bellingrath Gardens • Mobile • Mississippi: Jefferson Davis Home • Gulf Islands National Seashore • Lousiana: New Orleans-rebuilding • Cajun country • Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge • Texas: Laguna Atascosa Wildlife Refuge • Padre Island National Seashore.

The Queen Mary 2, at 150,000 tons, is the longest, tallest, widest, biggest ocean liner of the world.  Cruise on its  first voyage from Fort Lauderdale to Rio de Janeiro for the largest party on earth, Carnaval.  This trip  duplicates a legendary 1939 journey of the S.S. Normandie,  which was packed with the rich and famous of the day. 
Highlights Include: Fort Lauderdale • St. Thomas, the Virgin Islands, the Portuguese colonial capital of Salvador de Bahai. Travel overnight to the Amazon River and Iguazu Falls. In Rio - beautiful white sand beaches at Copacabana and Ipanena ,the cable car ride to Sugar Loaf and the cog train to the Christ Statute atop Corcovado, the magic of Carnaval, throngs of people dancing in the streets, and the spectacular, world famous, samba parades.

Bordering the North Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, Morocco is an initiation into the exotic magic of the Islamic, Arabic, and African world - the world of medinas, and minarets, deserts, mountains, and coast.  It is a land where travelers are esteemed, and for its people, hospitality is a way of life.
Highlights Include: The city of Fez, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and its amazing markets • A visit to a tannery •  The romance of  the imperial city of Casablanca and it’s famous Hassan II mosque, the port city of Tangiers • Explore the Sahara dunes by camel, and visit the souk of Marrakesh • Travel the “real” Morocco, far from tourists, where Berbers sip mint tea and palms grow plentifully in the sun.

Journey through the Sahel, from Senegal to Mali to Timbuktu, crossing the dry West African region of steppes, thorny untamed woodlands, and savannas that forms the borderline between the Sahara Desert and the tropical rainforests to the South.  The vibrancy of life in this area is reflected in the traditions of the ethnically diverse people. 
Highlights Include: Senegal: City of Dakar • Clamshell islands, mangrove channels, coastal towns with miles of sandy beaches • Niokolo-Koba, West Africa’s largest National Park on the river • Historic slavehouse on Goree Island •  Mali: African art in the capital city of Bamako • Inland delta of the Niger River and  the historic town of Djenne • Mopti-the gateway to Timbuktu • Exotic Dogon Country of the Bandigara Escarpment.

A country of rare seismic beauty, New Zealand’s abundant native forests, long deserted beaches, glacial mountains, fast flowing rivers, deep clear lakes, hissing geysers, and variety of fauna and flora have been beckoning tourists for countless years.  Two different cultures, Polynesian Maori and British Colonial, flourish side by side.
Highlights Include: North Island:  City of Aukland • Rotorua’s geothermal phenomena • Cape Reinga, the northern tip • Maori ancestral house at Bay of Islands • Pahia and scuba diving • Wellington; South Island: Abel Tasman National Park • seals at Cape Foulwind • towns of Westport and Graymouth • Punakaiki and amazing Pancake Rocks • Fox Glacier and Franz Joseph Glacier • Southern Alps • the spectacular Mt. Maungauni Beach.