Dear UCLA Alumni and Friends,

“Traveling doesn’t just feed your spirit of adventure, it rekindles your love for the place you left as you see your own home through a new set of eyes.”

For thousands of years it has been understood that travel nourishes the mind and the spirit. There is joy in discovering new places, meeting new people and encountering different ways of living and seeing the world.

UCLA Alumni Travel helps nurture that spirit for adventure, that drive to keep learning, to engage with the world and to seek new experiences. Just imagine yourself strolling next to Blue-footed Boobies in the Galapagos Islands, soaking in the splendor of millions of flowers at the Floriade, a once-a-decade floral spectacular in Holland, or walking through the glory of the Tuscan hills.

And to enhance your experience, top-notch UCLA professors come along on more than half the trips, adding their knowledge, expertise and companionship to your experiences. Plus, UCLA Alumni Travel offers the companionship of fellow alumni and friends, people who share an intellectual curiosity and sense of fun and adventure.

Traveling doesn’t just feed your spirit of adventure, it rekindles your love for the place you left as you see your own home through a new set of eyes. As Chinese writer and inventor Lin Yutang once wrote, “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.”

Where in the world would you like to go? Begin your journey on the pages of this catalog, and join us for the trip of a lifetime.

Christel Pailet
Director, Alumni Travel