2010
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2010
Expedition Calendar

Hi—I’m
Don Lyon. I’ve been leading photographic adventures around the world
since 1979.
The world is an exciting place—I’m looking forward to sharing it with
you.
Below are some of the trips planned for 2010. If you don’t see the
right
Expedition for you—consider a Custom trip—it’s easy and inexpensive if
there are four of you.
Go to Custom Trips for some ideas. Regular CUE trips are limited to
seven (except where noted).
I’m looking forward to seeing you on your next photo adventure!
By the way, I’ve started a travel blog where I post CUE field notes and
images from completed trips
as well as announcements about illustrated lectures and classes that
I’m offering.
Take a look www.mytb.org/cuephoto
Happy trails--Don Lyon, Chief Guide for Close-Up Expeditions
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Images of Viet Nam
January 13 – 23,
2010
(11
days)
Photograph
culturally rich and varied regions of this diverse country including
Hanoi’s French colonial charm and colorful markets, the limestone
monoliths, grottos and boat culture of Halong Bay, SaPa’s remote and
colorful hill tribe cultures plus the old Imperial City of Hue with
it’s Forbidden City. Danang is a beautiful region of ancient
temples with the Marble Mountains and China Beach nearby. Return
home from Saigon (or continue on to Cambodia—see Inside Cambodia)
Images
of Viet Nam—begins Hanoi, ends Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), maximum 9
travelers. 11 days land cost is $2728, plus $130 meal budget and
$136 for domestic flights. Single supplement $252.
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Inside
Cambodia—Meet the People; Make a Difference
January 26-February 6,
2010
(12
days)
Begins
in Siem Reap (4 nights), Phnom Penh (4 nights) and coastal Kampot
(3 nights), includes two days at Angkor Archeological
Sites. Led by Bhavia Wagner, founder of Friendship with Cambodia,
Inside Cambodia is a study tour with an emphasis on visiting local non
profit organizations that provide services such as micro loans,
orphanages, vocational training for land mine survivors, street
children projects and women’s education centers. Don Lyon will
assist in demonstrating photographic techniques to capture story
telling images that document the recovery of Cambodia. Ends in
Phnom Penh. Minimum 8, maximum 14 participants. 12 day land
cost is $2200, includes all meals except 2 dinners, single supplement
is $250.
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Canadian Rockies
July 18-26 (9 days)
If you imagine soaring jagged peaks with
glaciers glinting in the sun, moose and elk grazing placidly in wild
flower meadows—you’ve got the picture. The Canadian Rockies
are sublimely photogenic. We’ll spend 3 nights at Lake
Louise, another 3 in Jasper and one in Banff to make sure we have
captured the best images at the right time of day. Many
Picnic meals ensure we won’t have to come in just when the light is
getting good.
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Australia; Extreme Nature Down Under
September 1-19, 2010 (19 days)

The Island Continent is a Nature Photographer’s paradise. So much wildlife—so few people. Our itinerary has been road tested more than a dozen times to ensure the best photographic opportunities: Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef, Darwin and Kakadu National Park, Adelaide and Kangaroo Island, Sydney and the Blue Mountains. In the wild and in wild-like game parks we’ll be constantly up close with an amazing variety of unique birds and animals. Landscapes of the limestone escarpments in the Blue Mountains are visions of the world when new. With seven, the price is $4624 plus meals and air. Begins/ends in Sydney. Optional extension to attend Australian Photographic Society’s annual conference in Roma, Queensland. Maximum 7.
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Great Smokey
National Park
October 10-16 (7
days)
After the Photographic Society of America
Conference in Charleston, SC (Oct. 3-9, 2009) Drive from Charleston to
Gatlinburg, TN for five nights exploring America’s most visited
National Park. Glorious fall color, misty morning
mountaintops, tumbling brooks, and wonderful vignettes of Appalachian
Americana in the old homesteads and gristmills. Return to
Charleston on Oct. 15—fly home on the 16th. This is the
perfect time to photograph the Smokies!
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Burma, the Land
Beyond
November 27-December 16

Burma is a land beyond your imagination—the
more you see the more mysterious it becomes. Our itinerary
includes traditional tribal groups in Shan State, leg rowers on Inle
Lake, Mandalay’s great temples, monastic life and the picturesque ruins
of former capitols nearby as well as at Bagan. Throughout the
itinerary we are focusing on traditional lifestyles, crafts, scenic
landscapes and religious experience but the focus shifts slightly in
Yangon where we hope to visit some of the schools, orphanages and other
projects in the Delta that CUE clients have supported in the
past. Of course we will return to the incomparable Schwedagon
Pagoda in the evening light. Begins in Mae Hong Son, Thailand on November 27, ends in Yangon, Burma on Dec. 16. 20 day Land Cost is $4896. Single supplement is $478. Includes meals and four internal air flights in Burma. Optional pre-tour trip to Karen
Refugee Villages near Mae Hong Son will be arranged.
Click here to Download the complete 2 page brochure
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