{"id":10664,"date":"2008-11-28T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T09:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/far-horizons-takes-off-to-truly-far-horizons-2\/"},"modified":"2008-11-28T09:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T09:39:00","slug":"far-horizons-takes-off-to-truly-far-horizons-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2008\/11\/far-horizons-takes-off-to-truly-far-horizons-2\/","title":{"rendered":"FAR HORIZONS\u2019 TAKES OFF TO TRULY FAR HORIZONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/SS-8d7VpTKI\/AAAAAAAAEcU\/JJTlyY-thrY\/s1600-h\/Erbil+citadel+copy-706927.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/SS-8d7VpTKI\/AAAAAAAAEcU\/JJTlyY-thrY\/s320\/Erbil+citadel+copy-706927.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Off-the-beaten track Far Horizons has two unique tours for the truly inquisitive and adventurous in 2009: 24-days exploring Turkey and the independent state of Kurdistan in Northern Iraq in April, and 21-days through Lebanon, Syria and Turkey with the highlight the annual Baalbeck Festival in July.<\/p>\n<p>The rare opportunity to visit Kurdistan will bring with it such surprises as thriving cities and towns, lush mountain regions, friendly people of Indo-European origin with their own parliament, flag, language and culture. There are luxury-car showrooms, modern supermarkets and 5-star hotels in the main cities and resorts, with others under construction.<\/p>\n<p>And although largely Sunni Muslim (with a scattering of Christians, Jews, Yazidis and other sects) there&#8217;s a liberal attitude towards alcohol in restaurants and hotels; sightseeing includes ancient palaces, souks (markets,) and fertile farmlands, the site where Alexander the Great defeated the Persian King Darius III, and even a &#8220;get-to-know-you&#8221; picnic with local residents in a park of roses and fountains patterned after those in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>The Baalbeck Festival that&#8217;s the highlight of the Lebanon, Syria and Turkey tour in July is the oldest festival in the Middle East, featuring a wide program of dance, theatre, opera, jazz, modern music \u2013 and this year an Australian Ballet performance.<\/p>\n<p>For fully-detailed itineraries of both these unique tours that are fully-escorted from Australia and include return air and taxes, all meals, all ground transportation and local guides, entry costs to attractions, and gratuities, phone 1800 083 141 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farhorizons.com.au\/\">www.farhorizons.com.au<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Off-the-beaten track Far Horizons has two unique tours for the truly inquisitive and adventurous in 2009: 24-days exploring Turkey and the independent state of Kurdistan in Northern Iraq in April, and 21-days through Lebanon, Syria and Turkey with the highlight the annual Baalbeck Festival in July. The rare opportunity to visit Kurdistan will bring with [&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-10664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10664","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=10664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}