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12/10/2024

Do you have a favourite Christmas tradition?

In some families, members receive a new ornament each year.

Others bake a particular kind of treat--like snickerdoodles or sugar cookies.

In the comments, share one of your Christmas traditions!

Read this week's eMagination to find out about Richard Bergman and Diane Bergmann's favourite holiday activities. Also discover where TourMagination's owners will be travelling in December 2025.

12/06/2024

Where is this Christmas market? We'll give you a hint, it's one of the ports where TourMagination travellers will be next year on their Christmas Treasures of Southeast Europe river cruise from December 1 - 8, 2025! Staterooms are selling fast and discounted by $750/pp until December 31, 2024. We'll be celebrating the joy of Christmas together while enjoying markets, incredible food, culture, history, music, all the while being pampered on a luxury river cruise! Join Audrey Voth Petkau, Richard Bergmann & Diane Bergmann as we celebrate together next year at this time!

11/28/2024

11/16/2024

Our Bread for the Journey Egypt & Jordan Tour is wrapping up with some amazing pics from the past week's activities: A felucca cruise on the Nile to watch the sunset, visiting ancient Egyptian temples, exploring the archeological site of Petra and hiking in the Wadi Rum desert!

11/13/2024

Join us Dec1-7th, 2025 for a Christmas market river cruise on the lower Danube hosted by Audrey Voth Petkau Diane Bergmann Richard Bergmann.

It's going to be an absolutely stunning Christmas experience.

Special savings until Dec 31, 2024 - For more details & to register: https://www.tourmagination.com/tours/2025-christmas-treasures-of-southeast-europe-cruise-1

11/12/2024

Nothing like a 3am start to the morning to catch the sunrise & view from a hot air balloon!

Thanks to our tour leaders Nelson Kraybill & Audrey Voth Petkau for making this an experience to remember for our clients!

11/09/2024

Join our newly added Switzerland Anabaptist Heritage Tour to commemorate the Mennonite World Conference - MWC CMM 500-year anniversary of Anabaptism in Switzerland.

For more details: https://www.tourmagination.com/tours/celebrate-500-switzerland-heritage-tour

11/07/2024

Our "Bread for the Journey" tour group is making memories of a lifetime this week! From unforgettable camel rides across the desert to awe-inspiring views in front of the Great Pyramids, our travelers are experiencing history and culture up close.

10/24/2024

TourMagination is planning new tours!

Where would you like to travel in 2025 and 2026?

We will continue to offer faith-based, cultural learning, and Anabaptist heritage tours, as well as cruises.

Complete a tour survey to tell us your favourite options.

Also, suggest your own ideas.

For every survey submitted, TourMagination will donate $2 to Mennonite Central Committee for relief efforts in Ukraine.

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Photo: A group on the top of Table Mountain in South Africa with lively TourMagination tour leaders, Len & Mary Friesen.

10/14/2024

We wish our Canadian friends and travellers a Happy Thanksgiving! Bless you and your families. Warmest wishes from the TourMagination team.

09/25/2024

Did you hear the news? As of September 30, 2024 TourMagination will have new owners!

Read the announcement from Audrey Voth Petkau and thoughts from new owners Richard and Diane Bergmann.

TourMagination will continue to be the same great company helping people of faith to engage, experience and expand their worlds through group travel.

Richard and Diane plan to bring fresh energy as they introduce new travel experiences while continuing to offer Anabaptist heritage journeys, cultural learning experiences, and faith-based tours.

Learn more

https://www.tourmagination.com/news/

02/16/2024

Meet TM traveller Shirley Ratzlaff! 👋

Shirley has been on 15 TourMagination tours (and counting)! In a recent conversation, Shirley told the story of how she first came to TourMagiantion in 2008. Since then, her adventures have taken her to all seven continents. Most recently, Shirley travelled on the October 2023 Natural Wonders of Iceland Tour with her husband Don.

Why does Shirley keep coming back for more?

“’It was the leaders who made TourMagination tours so special. And the in-country guides.’ Shirley also appreciates travelling with like-minded people from North America. ‘[Travelling] has helped me develop a world view of how Mennonites and other people live all over the world.’ Observing people who are happy—though they live with much less than North Americans—made an impression on Shirley. She also fondly remembers worshipping with Mennonites in many countries—even when she couldn’t understand the singing and the sermon.”

We love developing lasting relationships with our travellers! Thank you, Shirley, for entrusting us with your world travels. We look forward to more!

READ MORE about Shirley’s story on our blog. Link in the comments.

02/15/2024

Why travel on the Discover Prague & the Mennonite Sojourn in Poland tour? 🧐

Well, here’s what our in-country guide Kasia Czaykowska has to say about the tour:

“As a guide, I must admit that the tour is always excellently tailored. There is enough time for everything, without rush. The attractions of the program go beyond any other tours offered anywhere else.”

Under the tutelage of Mennonite historian John Sharp and hand-picked local guide Kasia, this program provides a unique blend of sightseeing and investigating the history of Mennonites in Poland.

An eager group of travellers is already anticipating the 2024 tour, coming up July 24 - August 4. There is room for you! Will you join us?

READ MORE via the link in the comments.

01/30/2024

Seize your chance to travel to Alaska this summer! 🗻

LAST-MINUTE SPACE has opened up on the land portion, so we are able to offer both land and cruise once again! But hurry, registrations must be submitted by TOMORROW (January 31st).

SIGN UP for our Alaska: Off The Beaten Path program (June 30-July 13, 2024) on our website. Link in the comments.

01/25/2024

In case you missed it...

TourMagination tour leader and historian John Sharp wrote about the Mennonite experience in Uzbekistan in a recent Anabaptist World article aptly titled, “Open doors in Central Asia.” 💬

In the article, John reflects on a TourMagination group’s hospitable reception at Zirabulak this past fall: “Imagine our surprise when the family of Sunnat and Sofia Karimov gave us a spirited welcome Sept. 23 to Zirabulak, known to 1880s trekkers as Serabulak. Children with flowers and young adults playing instruments greeted us at this village where 140 years ago a ragtag bunch of wagon-training Mennonites enjoyed villagers’ generosity.”

01/22/2024

TourMagination tour leader and historian John Sharp writes about the Mennonite experience in Uzbekistan in a recent Anabaptist World article aptly titled, “Open doors in Central Asia.” 💬

John reflects on a TourMagination group’s hospitable reception at Zirabulak this past fall: “Imagine our surprise when the family of Sunnat and Sofia Karimov gave us a spirited welcome Sept. 23 to Zirabulak, known to 1880s trekkers as Serabulak. Children with flowers and young adults playing instruments greeted us at this village where 140 years ago a ragtag bunch of wagon-training Mennonites enjoyed villagers’ generosity.”

READ the full article here: https://anabaptistworld.org/open-doors-in-central-asia/

Curious about our tour to Central Asia? Read more on our website: https://tourmagination.com/tour/2024-silk-road-odyssey-the-trek-to-central-asia/

A decade after 18,000 Mennonites left their homes in South Russia (today’s Ukraine) in the 1870s, heading westward to North America, more than 140 families consisting of about 1,000 people looked to the East for divine opportunity in Uzbekistan.