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By treboratl , May 9, 2006 in Other Mediterranean and Black Sea Ports

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We visiting Kusadasi on June 19 aboard Celebrity's Galaxy and are considering using Meander Travel for an 8-person ,full day tour of Ephesus, the House of Virgin Mary, Ephesus, Museum and The Basilica of St. John. The price includes the entrance fees, licensed guide and private a/c minibu for a rate of $49.00 per person

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Has anyone had a good or bad experience using Meander?

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Meander Travel was originally established in 1977 and has its base in Kusadasi, Turkey. This company offers ferry crossings between Kusadasi Port in Turkey and the ports of Vathi and Kusadasi in Samos Island, Greece. The two ferries of the company have daily itineraries during the summer season.

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Camikebir Mah., Mahmut Esat Bozkurt Cad., Turistik Site No: 14/B

Post Code: 09400

Fax: +90 (256) 612 72 95

E-mail: [email protected]

Website: http://www.meandertravel.com

Patmos, Skala, Greece

Post Code: 85500

Phone: 0030 22470 31205

Pythagorio, Samos, Representative Inside passport control on Pythagorion port , Greece

Post Code: 83100

Phone: 0030 2273 300506

Fax: 0030 2273 300507

Vathi, Samos, 7 Them. Sofouli Str., Greece

Kusandasi, Camikebir Mahallesi Mahmut Esat Bozkurt Caddesi Turistik Site No:14/B, TURKEY

Phone: 0090 256 6128888

Fax: 0090 256 6127295

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations can be made at the Port Agencies, or Meander Travel offices that reservation and payment have taken place. The tickets are 100% refundable if cancellation is made at least 1 day before the ferry departure.

DUTY RELIEF AND TAX EXCEMPTIONS OF GOODS IMPORTED BY PERSONS TRAVELLING FROM THIRD COUNTRIES

MONETARY THRESOLDS (Value up to)

- Air and sea travellers: 430 EURO - Travellers of all the other transport means: 300 EURO - Travellers under 15 years old (whatever their means of transport): 150 EURO - Residents in a frontier zone, frontier-zone workers and crew of a means of transport: 175 EURO

QUANTITATIVE LIMITS

Alcohols and alcoholic beverages a) Of an alcoholic strength exceeding 22% vol (whisky, vodka, etc) or under natured ethyl alcohol of 80% vol and over: 1 litre or b) Of an alcoholic strength not exceeding 22% vol: 2 litres or a proportional combination of these different products c) Still wines: 4 litres and d) Beer: 16 litres Tobacco products a) Air travelers 200 cigarettes or 10 packets Or 100 cigarillos (cigars of a maximum weight 3 grams each) Or 50 cigars Or 250 gr. Of smoking tobacco Or a proportional combination of these different products b) Travellers using all other transport means 40 cigarettes or 2 packets Or 20 cigarillos (cigars of a maximum weight 3 grams each) Or 10 cigars Or 50 gr. Of smoking tobacco Or a proportional combination of these different products NOTICE: For travelers under 17 years old, no tax relief is granted for tobacco products and alcoholic beverages.

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Meander Travel is a Turkish ferry company founded in 1977 and based in Kusadasi, Turkey. The company aims to serve the connection between Kusadasi and the Greek island of Samos, providing high-quality services .

Destinations & ferry itineraries

Meander Travel operates daily during summer on the ferry route between Kusadasi on the Turkish coast and the two ports of Samos.

The 2 ferry routes served by Meander Travel are:

• Kusadasi - Vathy (Samos)
• Kusadasi - Pythagoreio (Samos)

Meander Travel fleet

The company’s fleet consists of the vessel  Kusadasi Express .

The vessel has many facilities that ensure a comfortable trip for passengers, such as restrooms and comfortable seats.

Meander Travel: Discounts & Offers

The ferry company Meander Travel offers special discounts for children and infants.

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Meander Travel special amenities & facilities

On the Meander Travel ferries, pets are allowed at the outside deck areas of the vessel as long as they are on a leash and wear a muzzle. 

Pets are not allowed in indoor public areas. Make sure you have your pet's health booklet with you, if requested.

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Subscriber only, travel | floridian fun, history abound at st. augustine alligator farm.

Animal enthusiasts and curious explorers can be transported to five continents through educational exhibits and encounters with crocodilians — all without leaving Florida.

The St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park is home to 24 species of crocodilians from as far away as Africa, Asia and Australia, exotic birds and mammals, Florida native reptiles and more. One of the state’s oldest continuously operating attractions, the park opened in 1893 and has welcomed visitors ever since.

When visitors enter the park, they first see albino alligators and the main lagoon where dozens of alligators bask in the sun and await daily feeding shows, much to the delight of visitors.

The zoo is divided into distinct areas, starting with the Land of Crocodiles — where crocodiles, caimans and alligators from around the world wait in their pools and bask in the sun. Some of these endangered species have long snouts and razor-sharp teeth, harkening prehistoric times.

The Birds of Africa display includes Cape Griffon vultures, hooded vultures and Marabou storks, which are all neighbors to the lemurs of Madagascar and Galapagos turtles.

Tucked in the back corner of the park, visitors can meander along a boardwalk at the native swamp and rookery where herons, egrets, spoonbills and storks make their nests right above alligators in the lagoon.

An indoor exhibit gives guests a welcome reprieve from the heat and tells the story of Gomek, a behemoth of a saltwater crocodile who was captured in Papua New Guinea and lived at the park until he died in 1997. The animal measured 17 feet, 9 inches and weighed almost 2,000 lbs.

After Gomek reigned over the park, the St. Augustine attraction became home to Maximo, a massive 15-foot-3-inch, 1,250-pound saltwater crocodile from Australia, who can be seen in an underwater enclosure with his mate, Sydney.

As many animals and birds resemble the age of the dinosaurs, the park is also home to Florida native reptiles, snakes and a Komodo dragon.

Special programs include Florida’s Forest Friends, a hands-on program focused on the Sunshine State’s environment, “Realm of the Alligator,” a “Scales and Tails Reptile Show,” the Rainforest Review and, of course, the daily alligator feeding.

For especially daring adventurers, the park also offers the Crocodile Crossing zip line attraction where guests can soar over live alligators and crocodiles with two different courses available. The adjacent Python Challenge is a 40-foot climbing tower with a rock wall, a cargo net climb and a rope climb.

From family fun outings to school field trips, the St. Augustine Alligator Farm promises a day full of exciting encounters and plenty of opportunities to learn about ancient reptiles.

The St. Augustine Alligator Farm and Zoological Park is open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily, with extended hours until 6 p.m. from Memorial Day to Labor Day, at 999 Anastasia Blvd. in St. Augustine. Tickets are $35.99 per adult, $20.99 per child ages 3-11 with discounts for visitors in wheelchairs. AAA members, military and seniors receive a 10% discount. The park has food and beverages available for purchase on-site. Pets are not allowed except for service animals. For more information, call 904-824-3337 or visit alligatorfarm.com .

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What’s the Quickest Path to World War III?

In “The Return of Great Powers” and “Up in Arms,” Jim Sciutto and Adam E. Casey consider modern-day superpower conflict through the lens of the past.

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By Scott Anderson

Scott Anderson’s most recent book is “The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War — A Tragedy in Three Acts.”

THE RETURN OF GREAT POWERS: Russia, China, and the Next World War, by Jim Sciutto

UP IN ARMS: How Military Aid Stabilizes — and Destabilizes — Foreign Autocrats, by Adam E. Casey

Every few months in the years that Donald J. Trump was president, Iran made a show of its ballistic missiles — the powerful rockets that can deliver nuclear warheads from one nation to another — and set off a small panic in Washington. The tests went like this: A missile flew up from one part of Iran, traveled through the country’s airspace and, ideally, blew up harmlessly in another part of Iran, hundreds of miles away.

The former White House political adviser John Kelly remembers that, on one such occasion, after intelligence of an impending missile launch came in, Trump said he wanted to shoot the weapon down. “Well, sir, that’s an act of war,” Kelly recalls telling him. “You really need to go over to Congress and get at least an authorization.”

“They’ll never go along with it,” Trump apparently replied.

“Well, I know,” Kelly said. “But that’s our system.”

This anecdote and many other alarming scenes appear in Jim Sciutto’s “The Return of Great Powers,” an absorbing account of 21st-century brinkmanship. Sciutto has interviewed several of Trump’s former advisers, including Kelly, who explains that he managed to talk his old boss out of some of his worst ideas only by suggesting they would hurt his standing in public opinion. “Americans, generally speaking by polling, think that we should be involved in the world,” he recalls telling Trump when the president threatened to pull the United States out of NATO .

The former national security adviser John Bolton is even more blunt about this episode. “Honest to God,” Bolton says, “it was frightening because we didn’t know what he was going to do up until the last minute.”

That such political figures would speak so candidly can be partly credited to Sciutto’s standing as CNN’s chief national security analyst and his earlier stint with the State Department under Barack Obama. He’s the kind of well-connected reporter who, as we learn in this book, gets a call at 3 a.m., in February 2022, from an unnamed Congress member to warn him that a war in Ukraine is imminent.

It also reflects the unbridled horror that insiders like Kelly and Bolton feel at the prospect of a second Trump administration taking charge amid a perilous superpower chess game. “The Return of Great Powers” argues that we are living through a Cold War redux that once again pits the United States against Russia and China. The battle is being waged on every imaginable front, from undersea communication cables to satellites in outer space and the growing frontiers of artificial intelligence .

Sciutto begins with cinematic jumps between an eclectic assortment of personalities — American generals and congressional leaders, Finnish diplomats and Taiwanese naval captains — in the days and hours leading up to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In later sections, the white-knuckle tension he experiences as Russian warplanes close in on a NATO fleet conducting exercises near the Baltic Sea is eerily echoed by Chinese jets operating in the Taiwan Strait.

One great difference between this cold war and the last, Sciutto contends, is that the guardrails erected to prevent superpower rivalries from sliding into catastrophe have been steadily dismantled. Over the past quarter-century, both the United States and Russia have abandoned one arms control treaty after another and lines of communication between all three powers have been purposely reduced. As one unnamed State Department official tells Sciutto, when a mysterious Chinese balloon drifted across North America last fall, the Chinese military “ refused to pick up the phone .”

Add to this precarity those proxy mischief-makers — North Korea, Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, to name a few — that might see advantage in provoking a superpower showdown. It’s enough to send those with a front-row view into the old basement bomb shelter.

Or to cause them to share their fears with a reputable journalist. Virtually all of Sciutto’s interlocutors are aligned: A defeated Ukraine will embolden Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, to attack one of the other countries, perhaps Estonia or Moldova, that have already caught his covetous eye. It might also encourage an impatient Xi Jinping of China to force a military solution to “ the Taiwan question ,” an event that some observers see as a precursor to global war .

Having identified the peril, Sciutto’s panelists also agree on the solutions: unwavering commitment to the defense of Ukraine; greater integration of NATO forces; much closer cooperation between the European and Asian blocs of democratic nations. Ironically, many of these recommendations are now being enacted thanks to the Russian invasion and Chinese encroachments — long-neutral Sweden and Finland have joined NATO , and East Asian nations have strengthened their mutual defense pacts .

But that doesn’t mean there isn’t cause for concern. Trump, once again his party’s presumptive presidential nominee, has fought against U.S. military aid to Ukraine and urged Russia “ to do whatever the hell ” it wants to NATO members who fail to meet their financial obligations. The litany of international dangers Sciutto describes, set alongside the recollections of some of Trump’s closest former advisers, is the stuff of unholy nightmares.

For all its strengths, “The Return of Great Powers” sometimes displays a peculiar awkwardness in conveying others’ views. Sciutto can let his subjects meander around points that are not particularly interesting or original — or, at times, even comprehensible. On the matter of standing up to Russia, for example, he quotes a senior Western diplomat as stating: “The idea that we can’t do this is completely false, but the problem is also economically and physically we have that capability. But then, do we have it politically? It’s going to be a different game. But am I concerned? Yes.”

I suppose I’d be concerned, too, if only I could grasp what he’s talking about. Still, these are mere quibbles when set against the import of Sciutto’s book, one that should be read by every legislator or presidential nominee sufficiently deluded to think that returning America to its isolationist past or making chummy with Putin is a viable option in today’s world.

The ideal way forward for a great power like the United States has always been fraught, and looking back at the mistakes and successes of the Cold War is often instructive, but not always. Adam E. Casey’s “Up in Arms” is well written and clearly the product of prodigious research; it also shows how Cold War comparisons can sometimes go too far.

Casey, a former academic who is now a national security analyst for a curiously unspecified branch of the U.S. government, sets out to re-examine the accepted wisdom that U.S. aid to totalitarian regimes served to maintain and prolong those dictatorships during the latter half of the 20th century. In rebutting this thesis, he sets out some statistics that are initially eye-catching. According to his examination of hundreds of Cold War authoritarian regimes, Soviet-supported rulers survived, on average, twice as long as American-supported ones. Most startling, in any given year, U.S.-backed dictators were about seven times more likely to fall than their Soviet counterparts.

As he points out, though, the Soviets exported their own military model to client states, which meant an armed forces thoroughly infiltrated by Communist Party commissars, and counterintelligence officers whose primary focus was keeping watch over the ideological steadfastness of their own rank and file. The result was an army wholly subordinate to the party and the state, drastically reducing the odds of a military coup.

By contrast, the U.S.-military model called for building out an anti-communist army independent of whatever tyrant happened to be in power at the time, often leading to the creation of a parallel power base that might ultimately challenge said tyrant. The American method was less durable, because it often yielded a round robin of military coups led by anti-communist officers against other anti-communist officers.

How did these different approaches alter the global chessboard? Remarkably, hardly at all. While Casey astutely points out that the American model was a perfect breeding ground for corruption, human rights abuses and governmental instability, he also notes that over the entire half-century span of the Cold War, only one military coup — Laos in 1960 — led to an actual ideological realignment of a U.S.-backed regime, and then only briefly. This is why, Casey explains, American cold warriors weren’t inclined to change course, despite their awareness of the chaos they had wrought.

Casey gamely suggests his findings might have currency as the planet enters another period of superpower jockeying, but it is hard to see precisely how this military-proxy dynamic of yore replicates itself. China has never shown much interest in extending its martial reach to countries beyond Asia, and Russian military tutelage is surely trading at a deep discount after its dismal Ukrainian outing.

As for the United States, while displaying little reservation about cozying up to despots when convenient — witness some of the grotesqueries it has climbed into bed with for the so-called “war on terror” — it’s hard to imagine any eagerness to go back to the days of army-building in the wake of America’s Iraq and Afghanistan war hangovers.

That being said, the last Cold War went on for decades. In 10 or 20 years, the hangovers could fade. China’s economic ties to countries like Uganda and Ethiopia , Russia’s support of Cuba and Venezuela and American entanglements in Southeast Asia and the Middle East all have the potential to turn from cold to warm, or from warm to boiling hot. Giving up on democracy is all the rage these days. The leaders of the great powers could start eyeing Cold War-inspired playbooks like Casey’s, with dire results for everyone caught in between.

THE RETURN OF GREAT POWERS : Russia, China, and the Next World War | By Jim Sciutto | Dutton | 353 pp. | $30

UP IN ARMS : How Military Aid Stabilizes — and Destabilizes — Foreign Autocrats | By Adam E. Casey | Basic Books | 323 pp. | $32

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