{"id":2973,"date":"2008-10-21T21:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=2973"},"modified":"2008-10-21T21:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T21:41:00","slug":"rare-tour-to-remoter-middle-east-includes-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2008\/10\/rare-tour-to-remoter-middle-east-includes-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"RARE TOUR TO REMOTER MIDDLE EAST INCLUDES IRAQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/SP5MfUstpiI\/AAAAAAAAEN4\/Yvi2KuUkWw0\/s1600-h\/Kurdistan+Map-777385.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/SP5MfUstpiI\/AAAAAAAAEN4\/Yvi2KuUkWw0\/s320\/Kurdistan+Map-777385.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259725515831223842\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">OFF the beaten track travel company, Far Horizons has a holiday for the more adventurous next April that includes nine days in Iraq\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s not the searingly-hot, war-torn moonscape of Iraq seen on nightly television, rather the northern region of the country that is lush and green with snow-capped mountains \u2013 and with its own semi-autonomous regional government and parliament, military, flag, language and culture.<\/p>\n<p>And Iraqi Kurdistan is the only region of Iraq officially recognised internation-ally as an autonomous federal entity, is developing international-standard hotels and is welcoming to the Western visitors it is encouraging to its region.<\/p>\n<p>Far Horizons&#8217; visit will be part of a 24-day fully-escorted tour by air and road\u00a0 of Turkish and Iraqi Kurdistan, and will include a Bosphorus cruise in Istanbul, ancient castles, boating on a picturesque mountain lake, museums, historic picture-book towns and villages, and a fascinating cave temple; there are stays of 2- and 3-nights in some cities to take-in all that&#8217;s rare to their areas.<\/p>\n<p>South Australia&#8217;s Martin Wright who founded Far Horizons in 1976 is visiting Iraqi Kurdistan this month to meet with the region&#8217;s Minister of the Interior and local tourism operators.<\/p>\n<p>To register interest in this unusual April 2009 tour and to receive a brochure and prices when they are released shortly, phone 1800 083 141 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farhorizons.com.au\">www.farhorizons.com.au<\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OFF the beaten track travel company, Far Horizons has a holiday for the more adventurous next April that includes nine days in Iraq\u2026 But it&#8217;s not the searingly-hot, war-torn moonscape of Iraq seen on nightly television, rather the northern region of the country that is lush and green with snow-capped mountains \u2013 and with its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973","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=2973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}