| Show 9W01W1P‘040"4"1-a-r- r St Lake MI:me The TRAVEL Guadeloupe has a little of everything Island boasts a volcano That sogar chocolate and coffee arrYrikilS V7pes-rIt--S would taste Lie nothMg else in eds world? That for once in o::r hves we would tan and tat but never hme To someone accustomed to the cold cloudy Atlante it was suddenly clear why Carithean travelers often just select an island step onto the nearest beach then barely budze until the plane leaves attempting no tasks more demanding than dedding on a level of sunscreen or the color of a witr16- -r csno -- rain fort sarlds of every color By Adam Z Horrath cross loomed above us a monument to sh:p 'wrecks offshore equally huge : rocks loomed below We loomed somewhere in the middle clawing - toward the top of Guadeloupe's : easternmost cliff — and staight into a bloodthirsty thorn bush That's when the same thought hit us both: This as our Caribbean beach vacation? Oops I was on the first Caribbe:an island of my life and I'd al ready learned and forgotten the great lesson of the Antilles within 24 Lours of arriving It was this Stay in the water Nothing bad can happen to you there In the water impossibly warm and clear everything's 7:wonderful and nothing matters The proof laad come immediate: Ihe day before From the terly ' race of our miniature cottage : we'd looked down on our hotels : tiny cove where we intended to make our first Caribbean plunge It looked like a deserted mud flat But after six hours in air' planes and airports we had pledged to blAiM at the earliest op portunity Now dusk was hitting the surf before we were So down a dark path we hurried gripping : hotel towels and upholding an tm: spoken pact of quite take Mter aa wed chosen : : book's enthusiastic phrase picked up during cur long sojourns in bookstore travel sections We were bound and determined to do it all This was the island with both a volcano and a mcino with sands of nearly every color and a rain forest with a permanent rainbow with some of the best snorkeling some of the best French and Creole food and some of the best roads It was the island so diverse it was actually two islands one of flat coral and the other volcanic and mountainous separated by the only channel in the world connecting the Caribbean and Atlantic oceans By the end of the week we would circumnavigate the mountainous Easse Terre and flat Grand Terre and visit a tiny offshore island to boot — despite nu(they're in French) and temptations to spend hours each day eating dishes that were a total mys- Every place we arrived seemed to say -- Stay! Stay! Stay!" "Come! Come! Come!" This was our compromise: Swim swim swim Wherever we went we looked fur water It wasn't just the 11 beaches we sampled we also bathed under two waterfalls swam laps in a hot springs snorkeled among hundreds of fish at Jacques Cousteau's favorite reef even got wet in the rain in the rain forest of course And almost every day began with a private dip in the hoters cove and ended with another d in its clifftop pool On our first full day we drove five minutes to Guadeloupe's '' 1PFI'''Ilyslr 1 0: ' 1 7 ----- ---- ) 11t tr - - st- - - 4 - I 4 i ' P 'c - Periniglir - Thursday ' UPTO 4 ' T PERSONS 14 - a $78 ' Lol $423 co AA TW v VIRMinitalgt AA 1423 SATURDAY One-Tim- DL HP CO LA x cO -- Ai SS8 DI 1' Millt-4- $550 Tvi $623 DL ul 1PAN AA ' 1114141001111scw S43 fksi LA $118 DL $118 D'-- Alligkaie $93 $118 a v 597-77C- (702) I e) 41( illEfokiirzor S1013 co el DW DI - 11110111110111 L 4 - (a 11 vj " ‘ eai Zi f:- -f :'1 ''' 4 ' c -- ' - ' - ' Z ' 1 - '1)--:' 1Pi -- A:mi-e- ''--je- 0 C:-'- 5 ntor(t700 -- e 71- '" " lied t" -- '-'' - N - : 5 FEB - AA ' - l': - vi- 0 -- -- - 44r4'"' eV ti1 4 - t J' : ' ' ' By Joe Applegate LOS ANGTT '':' '' ' sasowment sp é trio of train trips: NA nine-da- y rail trip through Vietnam from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City or vice versa departs daily A SZS3 TIN 1428 x I fa-- ire far riVe Aas AA CS tott 71 1110' Fetrar) 'WI ft i'1 09 2 - - 14 ' 1:' - ' ' ' '''' ' 74'''''' : 4- '' One-wa- with stops at Hue Da Nang and Nha Trang A minimum of two passengers is required for the booking They will have a sleeper car for two nights on the train seven nights' hotel accommodations a days sightseeing in each city a river cruise and a day on the beach at Nha Trang Cost $1396 per person or air fare $2666 per person including round-trifrom Los Angeles (with two nights' stay in Bangkok Thailand) Asian Pacific Adventures: 826 S Sierra Bonita Ave Los Angeles CA 90036 teL (213) 935-3156 round-tri- p I An eight-da- y journey through Mexico's Copper Canyon departs El Paso Tevac Feb 22 and 19 Passengers will travel and March 3 aboard 10 refurbished US rail cars and will lodge in hotels en route The South Orient Express consists of a dining car parlor car six observation cars and two I 659-760- 2 y p il 1994 496-603- - ” t - k - T I12121iLit-Trire- OTH-APIL- L o I- t SPRING TEHPLE TOrlit — MARCH 2 STK: Irtals vear we will visit II Temples Including Mesa Oaklah& San Diet3o Los Arweles Portland Seattle Las Veen& Boise & several in Utah Sti wall also visit other excinng what-tain- s along the way -- IDaii 13 7) 4 ara C1)5±11 - -- ' 7t '171-VIA- For irtermcdcw can' 27734101 - or ::' 1 23 iiu a5 Sign up 90 dogs in advance and receive Discount ' Eli 0 ' 1 - 1 41- I 9:00-3:0- 0 ' e I ' - r z4! 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IX La we said hr-- we didn't mind driving once we reached the beach Carave:e was bustling — mostly with vendors walkigr up and down the ahoreline with plates of pastries mrirg the French Caribbean equivalent of -- Peanuts Leah- - But the water was absolutely serene This is Club Med"s location and the perfect line of palms is the resort's doing but in Guadeloupe ail beaches are public up to high-tid- e mark We pulled up a palm and sat down for the morning It was in the afternoon that we beaded to the eastern tip of the island Pointe des Chateaux and lost our heads for a minute climbing up to the giant cross We finally did reach the top a little scratched and a little Ahaky We were rewarded with a view over the entire upper island of Grand Terre — and the realization that we had totally missed the nice lithe path built for tourists But a quick dip in the breakers below eased the pain and sufferg After a day on the offshore island Terre de Haute with fine coves of its own we had our last marine adventure First we took a boat to Pigeon Island and the coral reef preserve featured often by Jacques Cousteau and now named after him The place is a haven for divers but mere snorkelers can swim amid entire schools of curl-oirainbow-colore- d fish just as easily The day could have been complete right there It was even more complete after a Creole lunch of assorted smoked fish in a restaurant composed entirely of outdoor gazebos overlooking the Cousteau Reserve Bother de la Malendure H5 1:-rs:- - beach Eage white-san- —12 - Car-are:l- tanas tent A huge largest S 'II a ' : e1a i ' " !P' t4 444'10 04 1 rs 4' - see ' ' il 44 tt"1-- -t 1e a at2 t : 1 -- e4:J ' 71 t - ov |
