| Show 4T The Salt Lake Tribune Sung lay 15 19 April On river of glasnost: Savor emerging Eastern bloc by boat By Alfred Borcover Chir:ago Ttibune Writer slow boat might prove the Lest to bee parts of Eastern Europe this summer and fall With the hot interest in touring the newly indeA utunin ith sailings from Vienna and Kiev on the banube and Dnepr rivers with ports of call on the Black Sea 25 IAEA! The cruises will use two vessels the AustriMS Mozart a an vessel touted as -- the most most d cruiser in the world-anelegant GiuschiS Akadernik Victor ti kov a S( let essel that can carry up to 300 pasengers described as an - The xr:ellerit three-sta- r shipGlavrechOluschkov is operated by flot a Ckranian shipping line A journey from Oct 21 Nov 2 begins in Vienna aboard the l'ilozart and cruises to Esztergorn religious center of Hungary Budapest the country's capital: Belgrade Yugoslasia's capital and through the Iron Gate a narrow cliff-linepassage through tour rir 1tnnt-i- Czechoslovakia Hungary Bulgaria Romania Poland and the Soviet Union suffer from a shortage of hotels in the face of increased interest not only by tourists but by business travelers Although the number of boats op- erating on rivers such as the Danube Dnepr and Elbe from May into (k are limited the water routes should be considered as a niost pleasant way tn visit these countnes !Jost: a Vienna-baseshipping II) i e 91PE N -- -- slipping dollar conversion rates since the brochures were printed A trip covers a similar itinerary but starts with a flight from Vienna to Kiev and a reverse cruise to Vienna Other variations include stops in Sofia Bulgaria: and Moscow with prices ranging from $2585 I4-da- person to t8315 Shore excursions are $15 to T47 a person Prices include all meals— five a day — entertainment all shipboard facilities a guidebook and taxes but not drinks shopping visa fees and tips Air fare also is not included DDSG also operates the MS Volga on the Danube as well as the hydrofoil service between Vienna and Budapest Another series of Danube cruises a ft ' 1 ' s )' Fraalurt '‘ 5 39 Paris Glasgow :s59 Amtcrlam Y v 4v9 x BUCHENWALD East Germany through the wooden gatehouse that once contained the head quarters of the dreaded Nazi SS and contemplate the vast scene before — Walk 39 :? you: itAistl o'er :at oncalmt 1(411 I V rwt twa l Square where the starving inmates of this infa- trct—lAn ?kr IA 3 I 010 lour) Lrc iei i l'aris 'A $1 35 frqrr : Yr 0 ( )t- rto i'l-- 4141rr i K 4 147" a- 7 -- L 2 f0)4t a nygi! urop from "Only the price 4 fot- Greek Odymey from $278 GintinciiaI SarnPier from Btlikilfl Advent lite $686 from St clov and flit rt4 uz CXJ7111e: Y'Al of idetght An itrit Pane iv LA tlAWSONSHIELDS Cott Ix ILIA" Billgaria Spain and Portugal of pot' ti p At 12 Li ini Niadnd J rill011110 u n'ng at ream inable Prices LAI (rtri itrdt)r unlyotkie rvt tThfil Fox " 414 ( ft it Ir LA" r"tio ) C' Jt(l'oPt ard (11dittl A 14-- t”- - 41 A Taste of Furolw tpn $884 A t in 14)ittlim tpn $361 and tia xcr Let i rp ( P Great Smoky Mountains Biltmore A Week in Paris tpan $438 NP401 N11 rn tirstAlAs 7 of Europe trn $1028 aid irdn( tomi MilrOkPmaltrgatt r 4 t 11111 r11 - t- n lykr tdtmig ard tr tTA1' Toronto to Vancouver with in Niagara Winnipeg Edmonton Calgary Banff Lake bOulbe Kamloops excellent hotels and meals Airfare from Salt Lake included Only 8 seats left! 1Kr ii crww if rt- - June It illIV CANADIAN ROCKIES CALGARY STAMPEDE Millt14111'WkIffm10918 Llrad dr 4 gTtat wid IXh (J !rit-- lingR from S(arkimia ::'('5 Gummy frm Spin from Fran Europe ( )11( $268 o)§:1‘ RuhF- ' Apv-v- Early Church History Sites 10-2- 3 17-2- 6 Festival Shakespearean '11V 1111' 0 Lake Powell Zion & Bryce Canyons $696 July Shakespearan Festival Zion Bryce Lake Powell by boat & air optional 16-2- 1 flight to Monument AUGUST FREE HOTEL GUEST BONUS BOOK Valley $728 NEW ENGLAND & ATLANTIC CANADA $439 Over a $50 value! 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Every human being can take a lesson away from Buchenwald if it be nothing more than a better understanding of the inscription that appears on the centennial plaque fixed to an old synagogue on Oranienburgerstrasse in East Berlin one of many damaged or destroyed on Nov 9 1938 in the infamous Nazi pogrom which has come to be known as Kristallnacht "Vergesst es nie" it says "Don't forget this" TAVVO'Knoi47 F1 4t1 Jun 23 lorrunsT CANADA June A 27-Jul- CALGARY STAMPEDE y DOUBLE OCCUPANCY Excludes taxes suites jacuzzi rooms and holiday periods Not available to groups Subject to availability Reservations must be made by See the Canadian Provinces of British Coiumbia Victoria Alberta Waterton Glacier National Park and the Calgary Stampede $929 HILL CUMORAB EASTERN US TOUR 5 371-- 1 'i°3gjf::th::ACosinoHole4 Fremont & 3rd Dow n tow n Fme validated covered parking l A8 sale Sill $O le BANGKOK HONOLULU HONG KONG TAIPEL - HONG KCAG HONOLULU - HONG KONG - HONOLULU SAGAPORE UL TOKYO OSAKA-- H QI $l68rt BANGKOK AI 1703 rt 8788 n 676811 81189 rt SEOUL DELHI 213 Sti Ask Portiand Ammo HONG 1728 8768 8968 168 KONG SINGAPORE JAKARTA CALCUTTA 2204 tinySeam& Op& Sot 10 to of Resinctons 3 Aug SA' FRANCISCO 31-Se- Aug $499 21-2- CUMORAH & LABOR DAY TOUR 8 All Join us on this all time favorite tow to Emtem Canada the spectacular Ian Inbar of New England New York Boston b Philadelphia Cali lot I Medium 1759 Sept IS Oct5 EASTERN US HISTORY FALL TOUR morah Pageant Air Viso the places where ow country's 6Astory began Wastwigton 1)1 Philadelphia Boum Plymouth New York lual see the New England fail foliage Brochures are available - Sept $939 SOUTH PACIFIC Oct I 8 24-O- Air and Bus $1550 BLACK HILLS PASSION Aug 1441 88 West 500 South Bountiful Utah 84010 Tel (801) 29541025 PLAY SUN VALLEY SPECIAL Sept DURANGOMESA VERDA SPECIAL Sept 2124 Toll Free A Division of Morris! 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Men women and children from 35 nations of the world were incarcerated here and murdered by the Nazis Perhaps the most visible memorial is to Ernst Thalmann chairman of the German Communist Party at the time who spent 11 years in Buchenwald before the Nazis killed him on Aug 17 1944 Perhaps the most Discover the Isles of Paradise on oar fully escorted tour to Hawaii Set four islands stay in first class hotels Enjoy activities other tours don't include Dollywood Chattanooga Na$hville Memphis combined with Lexington Louisville & reserved seats at the Kentucky Derby $1552 May 4 l'Arp Aumna GcrullatiN Mansion & extrls Heart 3 COUNTRY ROADS & KENTUCKY DERBY and traric VTeek s BEST ROOM VALUE IN DOWNTOWN LAS VEGAS 10 rzol 'AWLS! $540 from arid Vaterkia Syydir Granada non-Jew- DELUXFESCORTEAMIRS or 4- Generation and Komanta Best large dark stain of German history that has come to be called the Holocaust the ovens The ovens Stand here and contemplate the immense barbarity of it all and feel the emotions sweep through your mind and body It is as if your best and dearest friend suddenly turned for no apparent reason and slammed a fierce blow into your solar plexus Feel for a moment the disbelief the dismay the anger and the sadness Even the most primitive barbarians could not match this for here is a carefully crafted camp of death a calculated design to destroy human beings both Jews and You'll see tears at Buchenwald and probably shed a few yourself and perhaps wish that every adult everywhere could stand here for a moment and contemplate these lessons of the past however odious and despicable they may be But the lessons are open to interpretation one quickly discovers For years this has been Communist East Germany and so the written descriptions at Buchenwald project not a sense of historical culpability but vicone of socialist and -tory over "big business' and unbridled as exploitation of workerswell as the Nazis anti-fasci- tsori dav 15 $350-1:1- Aifirn i $404 arid Pam &RE tor 8 day &Norio" 411 ifkkiding tra41- anrd) ct irh innirJra id! - budget" is 0111Mitnt31 ca ATrivplar-- ()It frrn I A iAlt where arranwriaritl an" Cruise 4 4 rpi-- 0 Cosmos yAJ ki0611(4 '0' 'rq htqk vk 1T'dq of Amsterdam Iptn $132 trALI: 2 r441- - a m a14' egi hrtafal Ar dal-- 4" 'in p TI ! to uxemit14! (jrttX - - d mous concentration camp were forced to stand at attention hours on end in searing heat and in the freezing cold of snoAstorms that sweep suddenly and viciously across this hilltop five miles outside the old German city of Weimar Behind Roll-cal- l Square he only vast vacant acres now with crushed stone and concrete blocks to mark here stone and wooden buildings housed as many as 50000 prisoners at a time in conditions unfit even for animals The watchtowers are still here The barbed wire To the right a brick building with a high chimney — the ovens and the rooms where medical -- experiments' were conducted and victims subsequently dissected on a white tile slab to ascertain the results Buchenwald numbered its dead at 65000 — hardly more than a small corner of the As'XI r W q(:3'or4 (l)smos 4 in: ' trl'ol' tg cily-irar tgr' elf 4It (A Limdtin fifri $94 IcLk i Pct dato ''t urope On Au I (I)K Li 4 IA 0) 91r1'te - Independent II )er 414401 - ti 0 ta -( y By Mike Shoup Newspapers Roll-cal- '1t US-base- Knight-Ridde- r 15 39 Imndon Zurich 29 Geneva fi non-Balti- c The options and the boats available to American vacationers who want to see Eastern Europe from its rivers will increase extensively once the politics between East and West stabilize With the exception of the Mozart the Rousse and a few other vessels faellities may not be up the to fussy Western standards The Mozart for example offers all the comforts you might expect Cabins have only lower bunks minibars TV onboard telephone showerbath and hair dryers The vessel also has a Viennese coffee house a library and an indoor swimming pool with a whirlpool sauna and solarium To serve the growing European cruise market a new tour company called EuroCruises now caters to independent travelers looking for voyages in the Baltic and northern seas as well as on lakes and canals Espevoycially attractive are visa-freages to Tallinn Riga Leningrad Gdansk and Vyborg out of Finland The travel boom to Eastern Europe is just beginning and travelers are likely to have more options next year Disturbing glimpse into Germany's past ri—iros - Smolka Tours based in Litchfield Toni Tepe the firms office -manager said there's a tremendous interest in the cruises and a number of the sailings have been chartered" She said some space was available in June but suggested that people interested in cruising the Danube and tern Forope contact their travel agents As the political situation begins to Eastern settle down in Europe travelers interested in river touring will have even more options Last month Tour Travel News recompaported that two nies planned to market cruises between West and East Germany next year on the Elbe River between Hamburg and Dresden Plans call for a new ship to operate seven-daroundtrip cruises They will be marketed in the US by EuropeAmerica Cruises a division of Exprinter Cruises based in New York Also KD German Rhine Line biggest and oldest cruise operator on the Rhine and VEB White Fleet in Dresden also are discussing cruises on the Elbe Conn Buchenwald death camp '' to- peat' l an Innsbruck firm that operates the MS Rousse and Donastaur The Rouse offers keek-loncruises from Vienna and takes its passengers from Austria to Czechoslovakia Hungary Yugoslavia Romania and Bulgaria A typical program starts with a Vienna to 1A'achno trip thpri goes on to Rodppst with a stop in Esztergorn The 236- passenger vessel continues on to Belgrade then through the Iron Gate to Rousse a key Danube port The seven-day cruises which cover 1000 miles range from $930 in low season to 511360 a person in peak season Price includes four meals (breakfast lunch afternoon tea and dinner) multilingual guides and transfers Not included are the cost of visas personal expenses excursions tips and air fare Ground tours also are offered in conjunction w ith a Rousse cruise One goes to the monasteries of northern Moldavia and the Danube Delta The cruise combined with the Danube Delta tours costs t1380 to $2140 a person Tours on both the DDSG and Lueltner lines are represented by is offered by Lueftner E ti 'Juts on at 4 the Carpathian Mountains to Svishtov and Ruse At Busse passengers sw itch to the Glaschkov and continue o n to lzmail Odessa a major port on the Black Sea Cherson Zaporozhje and Kiev From Kiev passengers fly back to Vienna Passengers can Oke bhore excursions at eaih of the stops Prices range from V2400 a person in a lower deck outside cabin to t 5145 in a suite Prices however may be about 8 percent higher because of Mr Ewer Travd tiftr 501 excertiomA If v2at'fiL5 to the Eiriie your drearr ill'1174:nyou are tontler±g 2n okottel tonr an dnt vacation or iu1 nt-- 1 an airbne tiket ve have the heq value to kbitk Iron forricAl ' 1111 1!(it knticing th:s fulls-ef- pendent Eastern bloc countrft s hotel space is at a premium Most of the limited number of rooms are held by operators Countries such as East thk Off way 84109 |
