MIR Corporation Announces New Departure for Epic 21-Day Silk Route Tour
PR Web; May 31 2012
The Silk Route Caravan tour to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan departs October 16, 2012 with prices starting at $7,195. For more information, visit 800-424-7789 or visit http://www.mircorp.com/tour_jtca.asp.
The ancient trade routes that linked Europe and China exposed Central Asia to foreign cultures, customs, and religions. Now, more than 2,000 years later, the award-winning travel specialists at MIR Corporation have created an epic, 21-day journey to five exotic countries along the ancient Silk Route – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan – that visits eight awe-inspiring UNESCO World Heritage Sites along the way. With all of the remaining 2012 departures sold out, MIR Corporation has announced a new Silk Route tour happening October 16-November 5, 2012 with prices starting at $7,195. For more information on Silk Route tours or the ancient Silk Route, call Mir Corp at 800-424-7789.
“Highlights of this ambitious journey include observing Kyrgyz national horse-games, savoring traditional Uzbek meals with local families, and admiring the trove of rescued Russian art with an expert at the Savitsky Museum,” said Founder and President of MIR Corporation, Douglas Grimes.
The President of Turkmenistan Adopted A Procedure For Determining Protective Zones of Monuments Of History
Baku Today; January 14 2012
The President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov Decree approved the procedure for determining protective zones of monuments of history, archeology, urbanism, architecture, monumental art and objects of natural landscape, correspondent BakuToday the press service of the head of State.
The document contains the basic requirements for the definition of the boundaries, the detention and the use of zones of immovable monuments of the past, buffer areas around them and territory protected landscape area.
“Protected areas of monuments are protected areas where now there will be new rules governing any activity on their territory. There will be withdrawn industry, repair shops or warehouses, causing physical and aesthetic damage to the monument, as well as causing significant flows of vehicles, polluting the soil and atmosphere. The local authority has the right to restrict or prohibit the movement of cargo transport, especially road and agricultural outlying sites or crossing their protective zones, if this poses a threat to the Antiquities. You will not be here to Earth and construction work, because any business activities on the site of ancient settlements detrimental to them“the press-service of Berdimukhamedov.