Mew Tourist Route

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6789, 22 February 1932, Page 11

Mew Tourist Route

Something now under the sun is promised travellers in Turkestan. Routine and usual routes have been avoided in an effort to provide a new thrill for voyagers who may join the tour at Constantinople on March 7, where tho adventure will begin with a week's cruise of the Black Sea. Hero on the Russian Riviera sparkle cities known heretofore to Americans only in tho pages of Tolstoy, and now possible to visit in actuality—Odessa, Sevastopol and Yalta, formerly the winter playground of the czars. Then from the lively little port of Batmn, the travellers will have the chance to pass through, the magnificence of the Caucasus, which rival the Himalayas in mountain scenery; and after a day in thriving Tiflis the journey proceeds over the Caspian Sea to the cities of Turkestan. Hitherto it £as never been possible to view the wotfders of fabulous Samarkand and Bokhara with any degree of comfort. Camels have afforded almost tho only means of transport along the did caravan trails that for 23 centuries have traversed the tawny sands girdling cities older in culture and splendour than any on tho Mediterranean. This time in a luxurious express train that is their hotel en route, the participants of the Turkestan tour will follow the course that onco saw the sweeping armios of Genghis Hhan and Tamerlane.