EXCURSION TO CENTRAL ASIA

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1960, 3 October 1888, Page 2

EXCURSION TO CENTRAL ASIA

An Interesting exoaralon train will, Bays the "Times" correspondent, leave Paris on September 11th for Central Asia, Upon that day the International Sleeping CarG>mpany will, by arrangement with General Annekoff, the constructor of the Tram 0 iplsn Railway, e tart a train made np of dtolng-room, drawing-room, and bleeping cars, eto, for Vienna, where there will be aat >ppage of 24 hoan. The next halt will be mide M t Kief, where two dayf will be allowed, and the same at Odessa. From Odessa the excursionists will bs conveyed .by wutar to the Crimea, and after a atay of five days In that penlnenla they will embark for Novroialok, going on by rail to V.'adikavkas, m the north of. tbe Caucasus, and thenoe to Tiflis. After a stay, of two days, from Tiflis they will vlelt BAu and its oil wells, oroaaing tbe Caspian to gain the new. railway to Samarkand, where they are due to arrive on September 30th. They will visit Merv . and Bokhara, returning by the uouth of the Blaok S.ea— that is to say, they will proceed from Baku to Batoum, by way of Tiflis. and thence to Constantinople, putting m at Trebfznnd, Sansonn, eto Five days will be allowed at Constantinople, the return journey being oompleted by the new lines through Bulgaria and Servla, with twenty, four hours at Sofia, Belgrade, and Pesth. The excursionists will reaoh Paris "on October 30th, and the coat of the exouraioo, inoludlng railway fares, oarrlage hire, interpreters, food, etc., will be £200 for each per on. A doctor will aocoinpany the train, and the Issue of tickets will be limited to members of certain leading Clubs m France and England.