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Northern Cyprus
The roads and beaches are empty. Best of all, the historic sites are deserted: no coachloads of daytrippers, no marked routes, barely a guard, and, most refreshingly, no commercialism whatsoever.

Focus: Working Traveler

Teaching in Mad Mongolia
Mykel Board takes us on a wild ride through the Kafkaesque maze of teaching in mad Mongolia. The accomodations may be spare but the people are welcoming and the rewards are gerat, if you can only figure out what day it is.

Special Interest Vacations Directory
Combine your favorite activities with your next trip abroad. These programs will help you do it.

Study Abroad Programs
Details on hundreds of credit-bearing summer, semester, and academic year programs, listed by country. (Many programs are also open as non-redit courses for adult learners.)

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• Spain: El Camino de Santiago
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• Malaysia: Unique Jungle Visit
• Mexico: Bus Travel Tips

Back Door Travel

Driving Europe: Tips and Tricks

Independent Traveler

Solo Women Find Adventure

Working Traveler

Help Out on Mexican Vacation
Volunteers Dig Archaeology

Special Interest Travel

A Summer Studying at Oxford

Student to Student

Winners of the 1998 Student Writing Contest

Responsible Travel

Behind the Green Labels
Ecotravel in Mexico and Guatemala

Living Abroad

Career Tips for Spouses

Abroad in Books

Ecuador: More Than Panama Hats in Country of Beauty

Education Abroad

Point:Counterpoint:
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Study Abroad Adviser:
Help for Returning Students

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Adopting Tradition in Greece

From the Publisher

If you are a new subscriber reading Transitions Abroad for the first time, welcome to a new kind of travel publication. Although I started it nearly 21 years ago, it remains unique in its exclusive focus on the practical details that make independently-planned, low-cost, and purposeful travel possible. The idea is that those of who plan our own trips abroad for our own reasons, following our own itinerary need usable and reliable information first of all.

As with all issues, much of this one is devoted to directories if specialized travel programs. Starting on page 53 you'll find an extensive listing of opportunities to follow your own special interests when vacationing abroad whether it's learning more about the history and arts of Western Africa, absorbing the secrets of Italian cooking in Florence of French cooking in a chateau, or experiencing the best to Jamaica's natural, cultural, and spiritual life in an idyllic tropical retreat.

If you have something a bit more demanding in mind, turn to our latest directory of overseas programs for students (page 67).

Educational vacations almost always provide the highest rewards for the fewest dollars. For considerably less than the cost for a room for one night in a midrange Paris hotel, you can spend an entire week as a guest of a warm and friendly family in San Jose while you study Spanish by

Immersion. In your free time you can learn Latin music and dance and Costa Rican cooking.

Excursions are also included in the $220 cost (see page 54).

Our next issue, May/June, will include our annual directory of language vacations worldwide, along with first-person reports from travelers who have taken such vacations, with their tips on how to choose the one that's right for you.

The July/August issue, our annual Independent Travel Planner, will feature separate sections highlighting the best travel information as well as organized programs for Independent Travelers, Families Traveling with Children, High School Students, Seniors, and Persons with Disabilities. In addition this special issue will include a section of information on Living Abroad.

Meanwhile, if you need immediate answers to particular questions please consult our list of other resources in page 66.

Clay Hubbs