01:00 AM EDT on Sunday, July 16, 2006

Experts can lead you on the Pueblo trail

If you're intrigued by the mysterious Cliff Dwellers of Mesa Verde (see cover story), here's a chance to learn more about them, on site, from experts: Join a tour next month led by Richard Stucky, curator of evolution and paleoecology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.

The three-night trip to study the archaeology of the ancient Pueblo (Anasazi) people of Colorado begins Aug. 24. With Stucky will be scholars from the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, who will lead visits to the center's laboratory and conduct field trips.

Cost: $845 per person, double occupancy ($275 single surcharge), which includes lodging, meals, transportation during the tour, lectures and discussions. Transportation to Cortez, Colo., is not included.

Contact: Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colo.; (800) 422-8975, Ext. 146, www.crowcanyon.org, www.dmns.org/travel.

A warning if you're going to Belize

The tourism industry in Belize is discouraging travel to Chiquibul National Park and the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve after attacks on tourists. For more details on crime in Belize, contact: U.S. State Department, www.travel.state.gov (click Consular Information Sheets).

Free golf? Marriott has an offer for kids

Kids ages 15 and younger golf for free with an adult after 3 p.m. and get a free lesson with a paying adult at 52 Marriott golf courses. Details: www.marriottgolf.com.

Here's a deal with a big hitch

The newly refurbished Wyndham Sugar Bay Resort & Spa on St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, offers free weddings with the purchase of a five-night all-inclusive stay.

The Free Wedding package includes the services of the on-property wedding coordinator, arrangements and fees for the officiant, a religious or nondenominational ceremony and a decorated wedding site, set along the resort's tropically landscaped lawns.

The package is available Aug. 23-Oct. 31, Dec. 1-23, Jan. 3-12, Aug. 23-Oct. 31, 2007, and Dec. 1-23, 2007. Information: (340) 777-7100, ext. 2214 or www.wyndhamsugarbayresort. com.