{"id":10204,"date":"2009-07-07T03:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T03:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/worlds-rarest-tour-to-a-country-that-doesnt-exist-2\/"},"modified":"2009-07-07T03:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T03:48:00","slug":"worlds-rarest-tour-to-a-country-that-doesnt-exist-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2009\/07\/worlds-rarest-tour-to-a-country-that-doesnt-exist-2\/","title":{"rendered":"WORLD\u2019S RAREST TOUR \u2013 TO A COUNTRY THAT DOESN\u2019T EXIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/SlLFfXYtbFI\/AAAAAAAAG1I\/jfFpBfb8e_w\/s1600-h\/Somaliland+Berbera+Ottoman+architecture-793136.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/SlLFfXYtbFI\/AAAAAAAAG1I\/jfFpBfb8e_w\/s320\/Somaliland+Berbera+Ottoman+architecture-793136.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A COUNTRY that doesn&#8217;t exist is a highlight of a 30-day tour of the Horn of Africa with off-the-beaten-track Far Horizons in January next year.<\/p>\n<p>And although all of the world&#8217;s major powers say there&#8217;s no such place, guests on this tour will find that Somaliland is building a strong tourism infrastructure, including first-class hotels for those wanting to explore everything from recently-discovered 4000-year-old cave paintings, to historic Ottoman architecture, and in its spectacular mountain countryside, British colonial buildings that still stand as they were when the British abandoned them forty years ago.<\/p>\n<p>This eye-opening and unusual tour will also visit Ethiopia where the Blue Nile begins, one-time French colonial Djibouti, Yemen for a visit to the Imam&#8217;s Palace and the ruins of the old coffee port of Mokha, \u00a0Eritrea with its art deco flourishes and where Mussolini planned his &#8220;New Roman Empire,&#8217; and Sudan under whose pyramids forty generations of Nubian royalty lay buried.<\/p>\n<p>Price starts from $24,625pp twin-share ex-Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane and from $24,525 ex-Perth, including return air and taxes, all meals, a Far Horizons escort throughout, daily tours with local guides, and entry fees.<\/p>\n<p>For a fully-detailed itinerary phone 1800 083 141 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farhorizons.com.au\/\">www.farhorizons.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A COUNTRY that doesn&#8217;t exist is a highlight of a 30-day tour of the Horn of Africa with off-the-beaten-track Far Horizons in January next year. And although all of the world&#8217;s major powers say there&#8217;s no such place, guests on this tour will find that Somaliland is building a strong tourism infrastructure, including first-class hotels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}