Unless you are a back-packer with a liking for fleas and a disdain for comfort, travel in the Middle East has never been cheap. Cost, of course, is relative. All we can promise is that you will not find better value for money than our tour: no one can take you to so many sites, give you so much personal attention, let you live in such style or help you do so much - for so little.

Day after day the guests on the 1998 tour voted that each day was "the highlight of the tour!" We do our best, but we found it hard to believe that each day could be better than the one before, yet so it was. The let down came on the last day, which was unanimously declared to be the "worst day of the trip so far." We anxiously enquired the reason and were relieved to be told that it was because the tour had come to an end!

A large component of the cost of the tour is the air fares to the Middle East. If you live in Australia or America, these will obviously form a larger proportion of the overall cost than if you live in, say, Greece or Italy. Just to give you some idea of the price, however: the 1998 tour cost £2369 from Britain, not including the dig at the end, which was another £250. From Australia the cost of the tour was $A7,000.

If you live outside either of these two countires, please snail-mail to our Australian address for a quotation and a tour brochure, free of charge and without obligation.

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