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Article: DEPARTURES
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 18, 1995
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Total holidays
The travel industry is almost as adept as Nasa at tracking solar
eclipses. Expeditions to this year's total eclipse of the sun, on
24 October, are selling fast, and plans are in hand for holidays
celebrating astronomical events until the millennium.
The 1995 eclipse begins over Iran, traverses India and south
east Asia, and ends over the Pacific. It will last longest around
the mid-point, over south-east Asia, but uncertain weather means
the chances of seeing it are only 50-50.
"You have to balance the duration of the eclipse with the risk
that it will be obscured," says Brian McGee of Explorers Tours
(01753 681999). His company is running trips to northern India:
the Taj ...
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... ... liveaboard boat with a price of pounds 1,695 per person, based ... island. The holiday costs from pounds 1,700 per person, based ... divers can explore the wrecks. Explorers Tours (tel: 01753 681999) offers a 17- day itinerary for around pounds 2,000 per person, based ...
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