Ride the Trans-Siberian Rails for Less

Get $200 per person off any departure of the Tsar's Gold in any class if you book before April 1, 2010.
Travel along the Trans-Siberian Railroad aboard the Tsar's Gold private train on the 15/16-day tour between Beijing and Moscow, with stops along the way in Siberia, the Gobi Desert and UlaanBaatar.  (more)

Prepared to Share?
Solo travelers on selected departures of the Golden Eagle Trans-Siberian who are willing to share a cabin/room with another (same gender) traveler will be guaranteed the per person double occupancy rate and will save on the single supplement.

Save up to $3,200 in New Heritage, $5,700 in Silver or $6,400 in Gold Class on selected departures on this luxury private train.  (more)

For the first time, our small group tour Bulgaria & Romania: Frescoes & Fortresses coincides with Bulgaria's 2010 Rose Festival.

Marking the annual harvest of the fragrant Kazanluk rose, the Rose Festival includes parades, dances and traditional costumes and attracts folklore aficionados, students of art and architecture and lovers of antiquity as well as rose enthusiasts. (more)

In another first for MIR, Mongolia's Golden Eagle Festival builds on our reputation for travel in Mongolia's outback, searching out new experiences for adventurous travelers. 

This exciting journey honors a 6,000-year-old tradition, hunting with magnificent Golden Eagles. Bayan Ulgii, Mongolia's westernmost province, is populated mainly by semi-nomadic people of ethnic Kazakh descent, who display their birds' speed and skill yearly at the traditional Golden Eagle Festival. (more)

Conde Nast's "It List" of the Top Ten destinations for 2010 includes one of MIR's core destinations, Kyrgyzstan.  They call it "the adrenaline addict's ultimate prize" and one of "next year's travel trophies."  (more)