Product Description
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Rudy Maxa, the most trusted name in travel, goes beyond the
guidebooks to share his authoritative tips, trips and secret
places. Now, Europe looks even better in spectacular Blu-ray. The
worlds most popular destinations, hidden treasures and
off-the-beaten path surprises pop off the screen in spectacular
high definition, making these discs a must-own collectible for
millions of travel buffs. The first three discs in this
collection make up the first travel series photographed in high
definition. Rudy, one of Americas foremost travel experts, is
seen on more than 300 PBS stations every week, is the popular
voice of The Savvy Traveler as heard on NPR, and is the
contributing editor of National Geographics Traveler magazine.
Experience the Hawaiian vacation of your dreams as Rudy visits
Maui, where he braves the twisting road to Hana with its
cascading waterfalls. On Hawaiis Big Island, Rudy takes a
helicopter tour of the worlds most active volcano. Honolulu
offers fabulous Waikiki Beach, and Rudy remembers World War II
history at Pearl Harbor. Head north to the tropical paradise of
Kauai, hike the Wea Canyon and kayak past traditional Hawaiian
villages. Extra Features: Kamokane Sing-Along; Fire Dancing; USS
Arizona Memorial; and more!
Review
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Trust Rudy if you want to travel in style for less while
minimizing hassles on the road. --The Today Show
Don't even think of hitting the road unless you've consulted Rudy
Maxa, one of the country's premier travel gurus. --Paul Theroux,
Best-selling Travel Writer
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About the Actor
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Rudy Maxa, one of Americas premier consumer travel experts, is
host and executive producer of Rudy Maxas World, the Emmy Award
winning, public television travel series featuring destinations
as diverse as Korea, Argentina, South Africa, Tuscany, and
Thailand. Maxa is host and executive producer of 95 television
episodes on the worlds great destinations that air on public
television stations nationwide. His television episodes also air
in 121 countries in 22 different languages on Travel Channel
International. You may view episodes on Create Travel. Maxas
latest edition to his Rudy Maxas World series is four episodes on
Japan - showcasing the country as viewers have never seen it. In
his Rudy Maxas World: Taste of Japan series, debuting nationwide
in 2017, Maxa is joined by his friend Washington, DC,
restaurateur Daisuke Utagawa, co-hosting four new episodes; a
one-hour special that highlights three distinct regions of Japan
by focusing on its food and the people who work the fields and
waters, plus three individual:30-minute episodes on Tokyo,
Hokkaido, and Kyushu. This is not a food show per se, says Maxa.
This is a travel show that uses food and local producers to tell
the story of a nation and its culture. Maxa is a fascinating and
informative speaker on the subject of travel today and speaks
extensively around the world. He is well known as public radios
Savvy Traveler and an award-winning contributing editor with
National Geographic Traveler magazine. He is a contributing
editor to Deltas SKY magazine and Artful Living, the Twin Cities
lifestyle magazine. The voice of National Geographic Travelers
Walks of a Lifetime podcasts, he also hosts Americas most
widely-syndicated travel radio show, Rudy Maxas World with The
Careys, which airs on 230+ mostly news/talk stations in North
America and via its own TuneIn.com channel 24/7/365. As a writer
for Traveler, Maxas articles have earned him two Lowell Thomas
Bronze Awards for Excellence in Travel Writing from the Society
of American Travel Writers. He has contributed travel articles to
GQ, Worth, Forbes, Modern Maturity, USAToday, the Washington
Post, Town & Country Travel, the Los Angeles Times, as well as
USAToday.com, MSNBC.com and ABC.com. He is a frequent guest on
national television networks and shows, including CNN, MSNBC,
CNBC, and The View. And he speaks frequently to both public and
industry groups. After 13 years as a Washington Post
investigative reporter and personalities columnist, Maxa worked
nine years as a senior writer with the city magazine,
Washingtonian, before becoming Washington bureau chief of
magazine for two years. Political scandal reportage by Maxa was
nominated for the Pulitzer Prize by the Post, and he has written
two non-fiction books. He wrote for the ABC-TV dramatic series
Capitol News and for several years hosted a Saturday-morning,
public affairs talk show on WRC-AM, the NBC owned-and-operated
radio station in Washington, DC. Episodes of the Rudy Maxas World
television series have garnered dozens of awards, including five
regional Emmy Awards. He was named best regular columnist by the
Florida Magazine Association for his writings in Ocean Drive. And
as a Post reporter, he won the John Hancock Award for Excellence
in Business and Financial Journalism for a series of stories
uning an international Ponzi scheme. His alma mater, Ohio
University, gave Maxa the L.J. Hortin Distinguished Alumnus Award
in 2002.
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