{"id":3248,"date":"2008-06-17T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T09:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=3248"},"modified":"2008-06-17T09:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T09:09:00","slug":"some-like-it-cold-winter-in-manchuria-siberia-and-mongolia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2008\/06\/some-like-it-cold-winter-in-manchuria-siberia-and-mongolia\/","title":{"rendered":"SOME LIKE IT COLD: WINTER IN MANCHURIA, SIBERIA AND MONGOLIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/SFd_Y14LQBI\/AAAAAAAADZY\/bH82wz6sbng\/s1600-h\/Harbin+Ice+HR2-794890.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/SFd_Y14LQBI\/AAAAAAAADZY\/bH82wz6sbng\/s320\/Harbin+Ice+HR2-794890.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212775158460923922\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An extraordinary insight into how the people of Manchuria, Siberia and Mongolia celebrate winter when temperatures range from minus-29 to a maximum of just 4-plus is on offer from Far Horizons in February of next year.<\/p>\n<p>The unusual 19-day tour will include the spectacular Harbin Ice Lantern Festival in China&#8217;s Dong Bei Province (formerly Manchuria) with its fairy-tale landscape of life-size buildings and cartoon characters created from ice and snow, and the one-time Cossack settlement of Irkutsk where there&#8217;ll be a traditional troika ride in this most-popular tourist attraction in Siberia.<\/p>\n<p>As well, New Year will be celebrated in Mongolia with a stay with a local family in a traditional &#8216;ger,&#8217; competitions between eagle hunters in traditional costumes, and displays of archery on horseback by Chinggis Khan soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Other highlights will include a camel polo competition in the South Gobi Desert, the largest and most important Monastery in Mongolia, Prince Volkonsky&#8217;s mansion in Siberia including a &#8220;Romantic Concert&#8221; of Russian, French and Italian songs accompanied on a rare vertical piano, the world&#8217;s largest ice-skating rink on the frozen Lake Baikal, and Mongolia&#8217;s International Skating Marathon and Ice Festival with horse-drawn sleighs, reindeer competitions \u2013 and wrestling on ice.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-day tour is priced from $15,000pp from Sydney including return air, twin-share in hotels and traditional &#8216;gers&#8217; at tourist camps, all meals, local guides, ground transport, excursions, entries, gratuities and services of a Far Horizons escort; full details on 1800 083 141 or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farhorizons.com.au\">www.farhorizons.com.au<\/a>\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An extraordinary insight into how the people of Manchuria, Siberia and Mongolia celebrate winter when temperatures range from minus-29 to a maximum of just 4-plus is on offer from Far Horizons in February of next year. The unusual 19-day tour will include the spectacular Harbin Ice Lantern Festival in China&#8217;s Dong Bei Province (formerly Manchuria) [&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-3248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248","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=3248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}