{"id":2989,"date":"2008-10-13T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T09:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=2989"},"modified":"2008-10-13T09:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T09:22:00","slug":"luxury-coach-through-russia-estonia-latvia-and-lithuania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2008\/10\/luxury-coach-through-russia-estonia-latvia-and-lithuania\/","title":{"rendered":"LUXURY COACH THROUGH RUSSIA, ESTONIA, LATVIA AND LITHUANIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/SPMTWwtVmYI\/AAAAAAAAEK8\/feqctRuSM20\/s1600-h\/SummmerPalacePeterTheGreat+at+Petrodvorets-755278.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256566471824611714\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/SPMTWwtVmYI\/AAAAAAAAEK8\/feqctRuSM20\/s320\/SummmerPalacePeterTheGreat+at+Petrodvorets-755278.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Far Horizons has a 27-day fully-escorted luxury coach tour through Russia and the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in June of next year, with the added benefit of unhurried 2- and 3-night stays at many places en-route.<\/p>\n<p>Limited to 16-participants, it includes eleven cities and towns in Russia and a boat ride on the Volga River, and sixteen cities and towns in the Baltic States.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights include Moscow and St Petersburg (3-nights in each,) as well as  Vladimir, Suzdal, Kostroma and Yaroslavl \u2013 Russia&#8217;s &#8220;open air museums&#8221; with their unique 12th to18th century monuments and architecture.<\/p>\n<p>In Estonia there&#8217;s a 2-night stay in the historic Kalvi Castle that&#8217;s now a classic hotel set within 2000ha of natural parklands,  a museum of rural wooden buildings, and towns with buildings dating back to the 14th century.<\/p>\n<p>Latvia&#8217;s Gauja Valley (the &#8220;Switzerland of Latvia&#8221;) and the country&#8217;s capital Riga with such highlights as the Old Town&#8217;s cobbled streets, 17th century buildings and the historic hangars in which the Graf Zeppelin airships were built pre-WWI, are highlights here, with a 2-night stay in Riga.<\/p>\n<p>Lithuania&#8217;s tourist resort of Palanga with its 10km of sandy beaches and the 20,000 pieces of natural and carved amber in a unique Amber Museum in a 19th century palace are features here \u2013 and there are visits to Klaipeda and the Theatre balcony from which Hitler proclaimed Lithuania&#8217;s incorporation into Germany in 1939, and the infamous Nazi &#8216;death camp&#8217; of Paneriai.<\/p>\n<p>Prices start from $25,550pp twin-share ex-Sydney, including return air and taxes, all meals, excursions, entries, local guides and a Far Horizons tour escort; phone 1800 083 141 or check out  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farhorizons.com.au\/\">www.farhorizons.com.au<\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far Horizons has a 27-day fully-escorted luxury coach tour through Russia and the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in June of next year, with the added benefit of unhurried 2- and 3-night stays at many places en-route. Limited to 16-participants, it includes eleven cities and towns in Russia and a boat ride on [&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-2989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989","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=2989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}