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walking tours, including hiking excursions in the Association for details.
the Freedom Trail, are beautiful New England Sailing vacations, largely
offered by the rangers countryside. One of the aboard schooner-rigged
of the Boston National best and most established vessels called wind-
Historical Park. Old operators is New England jammers, are popular on
Town Trolley Tours and Hiking Holidays. the Maine coast. Most of
Beantown Trolley Tours Likewise, several these encourage travelers
offer hop-on-hop-off outfitters organize multi- to help rig and haul sails.
sight see ing buses with day group bicycling tours To participate in such an
narrated rides around the in some of the most excursion contact the
city. They can be picked scenic parts of Vermont Maine Windjammer
up anywhere along their and Maine. One of the Association or Maine
routes. With Boston Duck most popular is VBT. Windjammer Cruises.
Tours visitors board an The Allagash Waterway Backwoods Maine
amphibious vehicle for a undoubtedly provides the has a long tradition of
city tour combined with ultimate canoeing adven- “sporting camps,” which
a plunge into the Charles ture in New England, are usually based in
River. Trips leave from the while various outfitters remote locations and
Museum of Science and will arrange white-water are often accessible
Prudential Tower. river rafting trips (see p56) only by float plane. Here,
A diverse selection of in Maine. Many expert campers can commune
active trips and tours sea kayakers tackle the with nature by paddling,
cover other parts of New pop ular Maine Island Trail fishing, and hiking. For
England. There are seve- from Portland to Machias more information see the
ral companies that can on their own. Contact Maine Sporting Camp
arrange two- to five-day the Maine Island Trail Association website.
DIRECTORY
PASSPORTS AND TRAVEL SAFETY Boston Duck Tours
VISAS ADVICE ∑ bostonducktours.com
Australian Consulate Australian Department Boston National
150 E 42d St, 34th Fl, of Foreign Affairs and Historical Park
New York, NY 10017 Trade ∑ nps.gov/bost
§ 212 351 6500 ∑ dfat.gov.au Maine Island Trail
∑ newyork.consulate. ∑ smartraveller.gov.au Association
gov.au UK Foreign and ∑ mita.org
Canadian Consulate Commonwealth Office Maine Sporting Camp
3 Copley Pl, Suite 400, ∑ gov.uk/foreign-travel- Association
Boston, MA 02116 advice ∑ mainesportingcamps.
§ 617 247 5100 US Department of com
∑ can-am.gc.ca/boston Homeland Security
∑ dhs.gov/national- Maine Windjammer
New Zealand Consulate terrorism-advisory-system Association
222 E. 41st St, ∑ sailmainecoast.com
Suite 2510, US Department of State
New York, NY 10017 ∑ travel.state.gov Maine Windjammer
§ 212 832 4038 EMERGENCY SERVICES Cruises
∑ nzembassy.com/ ∑ mainewindjammer
united-states-of-america Fire, Police, Ambulance cruises.com
§ 911
UK Consulate New England Hiking
1 Broadway, DISABLED TRAVELERS Holidays
Boston, MA 02210 SATH ∑ nehikingholidays.com
§ 617 245 4500 ∑ sath.org Old Town Trolley Tours
∑ ukinusa.fco.gov.uk ∑ trolleytours.com/
US Customs and Border TRIPS AND TOURS boston
Protection Beantown Trolley Tours VBT
∑ esta.cbp.dhs.gov/esta ∑ brushhilltours.com ∑ vbt.com

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