EXCURSION TO CENTRAL ASIA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1800, 9 October 1888, Page 2

EXCURSION TO CENTRAL ASIA.

An interesting excursion train will, ■ays the Times correspondent, leave Paris on September 11th for Central A sia. Upon that day the International Sleeping Car Company will, by arrangement with General Annekoff, the contractor of the Trans-Caspian Railway, start a train made up of dining-room, drawing-room, etc., for Tienna, where there will be a stoppage of 24 hours. The next halt will be made at Kief, where two days will be allowed, and the same at Odessa. From Odessa the excursionists will be conveyed by water to the Crimea, and after a Btay of fire days in that peninsula they will embark for Novrossick, going on by rail to Vladikavkas, in the north of the Caucasus, and thence to Tiflis. After a stay of two days, from Tiflis they will visit Saku and its oil wells, crossing the Caspian to gain the new;rail«vay to Samarkand, where they are due to arrive on Sept. 30th. They will visit Merv and Bokhara, returning by the south of the Black Sea—that is to say, they will proceed from Baku to Batoum, by way of Tiflis, and thence to Constantinople, putting in at Trebizond,Sansoun, etc. Five days will be allowed at Constantiople, the return journey being completed by the new lines through Bulgaria and Servia, with twenty-four hours at Sofia, Belgrade, and Pesth. The excursionists will reach Paris on October 30th, and the cost of the excursion, including railway fares, carriage hire, interpreters, food, etc., will be £2OO for each person. A doctor will accompany the train, and the issue of tickets will be limited to members of certain leading Clubs in France and England.