OGDEN TOURS
4683 Timberland
Berrien Springs, Michigan 49103
Phone: (269) 471-3781
Fax: (269) 471-6246
ogden@andrews.edu

CURRENT TOURS
Japanese Odyssey, Oct. 17 - Nov. 2, 2007. 
We will visit Tokyo, Mt. Fuji, Nikko, Takayama, Kanazawa, Hiroshima, Kyoto, and
Nara.  The price is $4895 per person double occupancy to include air
fare from San Francisco, 4/5 star hotels, all breakfasts and 11 dinners
or lunches, all transportation in Japan, all excursions and entrance
fees, and a full-time English-speaking guide. 

For information contact
Merlene Ogden at 269-471-3781 or ogden@andrews.edu  OR Judy Zimmerman at
269-471-7004 or zim41634@aol.com


PAST TOURS
Australia and New Zealand Adventure (with Fiji Island Extention)
Sept. 26 - Oct. 17, 2004
This year's tour of Australia and New Zealand with Fiji Island extention inlcudes a visit to places such as: the Great Barrier Reef, Sydney, Avondale College, Queenstown and more. The tour lasts 22 days. Cost of the tour includes the international air fair from Los Angeles and all air fairs during the tour itself, double/twin rooms in three and four-star hotels, breakfast and dinner/lunch daily, luxury motor coach with English speaking driver/guide throughout, all entrance fees, all excursions included in itinerary, and applicable visa fees. The four-night Fiji extention will be an additional $600. The single supplement for Australia/New Zealand is $890 and for Fiji $219. The cost of the combine tours will be $5550. Costs may vary depending on the rate of exchange when we pay our bills and on the number of tour members. If there are more than 30 tour members, this cost will decrease. The cost of departure and security taxes fort the air flights is not included since this amount will vary before out departure. It will be billed seperately.

South African Adventure
November 1-18, 2004
This year's tour of South Africa includes a visit to Pretoria (the Administrative Capital of South Africa), a Game Drive in Kruger, Capetown area, and much more. Cost of the tour includes the international air fair from New York and will return to New York or Atlanta, double/twin ensuite rooms in three and four-star hotels, breakfast and dinner or lunch daily, luxury motor coach with English speaking driver/guide,, all entrance fees, and all excursions included in itinerary. Costs may vary depending on the rate of exchange when we pay our bills and on the number of tour members. If there are more than 30 tour members, this cost will decrease. The cost of departure and security taxes fort the air flights is not included since this amount will vary before out departure. It will be billed seperately.

For questions concerning the tours, please feel free to contact Dr. Marlene Ogden.

ABOUT US
Merlene A. Ogden, Director
Phone: (269) 471-3781
ogden@andrews.edu

As an educator, administrator, and world-traveler, Dr. Ogden brings a rich life-experience to her tours. After taking her first European tour in 1960 as a young English professor, Merlene returned to Andrews University to develop study tours for students of English and History. Since 1964, she has conducted 13 such study tours and many more alumni and adult tours. In working with overseas affiliated schools since 1984, as well as with ADRA to develop an international development graduate program for its workers, she has had the opportunity to experience many cultures the world over. By now her travel family extends around the world. "I love getting acquainted with people," she says of her tours, "and introducing them to the places and experiences that have inspired me."

Cheryl Jetter, Associate
Director of the Netherlands Tour
Phone: (269) 471-3781
cheryljetter@hotmail.com

Cheryl Jetter first toured Europe with friends in 1968 while attending Newbold College. In 1980 she returned as a graduate student on an Ogden Study Tour. Since 1982 she has been assisting with Ogden Tours while studying and teaching in the areas of the histories of art and architecture and the creative process. Through the years, her work with Dr. Ogden has made a deep impression, especially seeing how she reaches out to create a warm, family-like atmosphere. "I learned from Merlene that tours are not just about travel," she says, "but also about being someplace together." Travel allows Cheryl to nourish her strong attraction to natural and built environments, and her deep response to what she calls the 'poetry of places.' She designs her own tours to give members the time and encouragement to take in places slowly, using photography or some other means to stay with them.

Judy Zimmerman, Associate
Phone: (269) 471-7004
zim41634@aol.com

Judy Zimmerman's European experience is rooted in her Scandinavian heritage. In 1979 she took her first trip to Europe to connect with Norwegian relatives. Since then, she has traveled widely, both on tours and on her own. In 1989 Judy signed onto an Ogden Study Tour to help guide students, and has been assisting on tours in many ways since then. Even though she made her career as an educator in math and science, Judy cites her love of history, culture, and the natural world as her impetus to see the world. To her, travel is a privilege she first dreamed of in college. "History comes alive," she says, "when you walk the very sites where it took place." Judy's love of people equals her love of travel, and she finds that helping others to enjoy their experience of travel adds richly to her own.