Article: DEPARTURES

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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