MIR Corporation's Press & Awards
MIR Corporation has offered supurb customer service and impeccable tours for over 20 years. Browse our press clippings to read about our industry awards and accolades. Most recently, MIR has been rated one of the "Best Adventure Travel Companies on Earth" by National Geographic Adventure Magazine.
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MIR Corporation Featured in Luxury Magazine, Caviar Affair Winter, 2010
When Caviar Affair - a glossy quarterly magazine self-described as "celebrating worldly indulgences and luxury living" - began looking for a company to custom-design a lavish tour to Russia and Ukraine, they searched until they found MIR Corporation. The magazine's criteria: "We search out the impeccably designed, the obsessively well-fashioned, and the startlingly beautiful." MIR's specially crafted luxury tour fit the bill, as featured in the Winter 2010 issue of Caviar Affair.
Among other opulent adventures, MIR arranged an exclusive tour of the Kremlin's Diamond Fund, where the travelers inspected the brilliant 189-carat Orlov Diamond; a private boat tour of St. Petersburg's canals, complete with onboard vodka and caviar; and a distinctive outing by horse-drawn carriage around Pavlovsk Park - the gardens surrounding Czar Paul's summer palace, presented to him by his mother, Catherine the Great.
The authors say, "Today, now that we're back in the U.S., we credit our incredible experience to the people who led us. Perhaps MIR stands for 'make it remarkable.'"
Download the Caviar Affair article (880 KB).
Two MIR Corporation Tours Named in Outpost Magazine's "Global Travel Guide" January, 2009
Two of MIR's tours have received special mention in Outpost Magazine's 2009 annual Global Travel Guide. MIR's Siberia, Mongolia & Tuva: Ancient Songs & Stories and From Mongola to Moscow:
A Trans-Siberian Railway Adventure are both named as one of the "Top 123 - Our Picks For Some Plum Trips, Treks And Voluntours."
Siberia, Mongolia & Tuva: Ancient Songs & Stories
During the 16-day journey, travelers explore the remote Russian region of Tuva, where throat-singers and shamans demonstrate their skills; take a boat ride on UNESCO-listed Lake Baikal in Siberia, spending a night in a lakeside lodge; and travel the back roads between the lake and Mongolia, where they conclude their journey on the rolling steppe.
Read the Outpost article.
From Mongola to Moscow:
A Trans-Siberian Railway Adventure
Starting off in UlaanBaatar, travelers ride on regularly scheduled Trans-Siberian trains over a dramatic and variegated route that offers limitless opportunities to meet the diverse local people - Mongol, Buryat and Russian. Highlights of the 15-day tour include experiencing the rolling green hills and nomadic traditions of Mongolia, Siberia's UNESCO-listed Lake Baikal and endless taiga forest en route to the booming capital, Moscow. Read the Outpost article.
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MIR Corporation Named among Best Adventure Travel Companies by National Geographic AdventureWinter, 2009
MIR Corporation has once again been rated as one of the "Best Adventure Travel Companies on Earth" by National Geographic Adventure.
In a recent authoritative study of adventure travel outfitters published on its website, http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com, National Geographic Adventure scored companies on criteria such as Quality of Service, Sustainability, Spirit of Adventure, Education and Client Satisfaction. MIR is proud to have earned a place among the top-rated travel companies of 2009.
In 2007-2008, MIR Corporation was included in National Geographic Adventure's first-ever list of 155 top adventure travel outfitters, acknowledging its 20 plus years of inventive itineraries to uncommon destinations at the crossroads of Europe and Asia. MIR features a broad array of scheduled small group active and cultural tours, sophisticated private rail journeys, and custom-crafted private adventures.
 Two MIR Corporation Tours featured in new adventure travel book, Riding the Hula Hula to the Arctic OceanMay, 2008
Riding the Hula Hula to the Arctic Ocean, by well-traveled authors Don Mankin & Shannon Stowell, offers advice and anecdotes about some of the world's most interesting destinations, including two of MIR's tours.
Journey Through Central Asia: The Five 'Stans and the Trans-Siberian Classic Route by Private Train were selected by the Adventure Travel Trade Association as two of the 26 tours highlighted in the book.
Journey Through Central Asia: The Five 'Stans
Discover a corner of the world little known to Western travelers, journeying along the ancient Silk Road through Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. Stop at beautiful alpine Lake Issyk-kul before heading to Uzbekistan to admire the unparalleled majesty of Samarkand's Registan. Shop for pottery and carpets in Turkmenistan's Tolkuchka Bazaar and visit the ruins of Merv, one of the largest cities in the world for a brief period in the 12th century.
Trans-Siberian Classic Route by Private Train
Traverse the wide expanse of Russia on this private train tour from Moscow to Vladivostok or the reverse. Roll across 6,000 miles, with expert guides leading the group during train stops in stunning Siberia, fascinating Mongolia, and exciting Western Russia.
 MIR Tour Honored as 2008 "Tour of a Lifetime" by National Geographic TravelerMay, 2008
National Geographic Traveler has designated MIR's Georgia & Armenia: Mountains & Monasteries as a "Tour of a Lifetime" in its May-June 2008 issue. With a maximum of 12 travelers, the Explorer Series tour is a journey into the spiritual, natural, architectural and culinary heritage of the spectacular Trans-Caucasus countries of Georgia and Armenia.
On this active journey, MIR leads travelers deep into the mountainous countries of Georgia and Armenia, rich with fruitful slopes, saw-toothed peaks and unexpected treasures. Meet and interact with local people, staying overnight in village homes in spectacular, steep-sided valleys and taking day hikes past the ruins of ancient fortresses. Survey Yerevan and Tbilisi, sophisticated capital cities with excellent museums, and feel the faith of centuries at medieval churches and monasteries.
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MIR's Trans-Siberian Mongolian Route by Private Train journey featured in Town & Country MagazineFebruary, 2008
Town & Country magazine's February, 2008 issue features a great article about a trip on the Golden Eagle Trans-Siberian Express private train from Moscow to the capital of Mongolia, UlaanBaatar-- MIR's Trans-Siberian Mongolian Route. The author, Carolyn Seebohm, was a participant on a custom journey that MIR put together for Princeton and Smith alumni groups in July of 2007, and describes her experiences on and off the grand train.
There are two 2008 departures of the 13-day Trans-Siberian Mongolian journey:
July 1-13, 2008 (Eastbound) and July 10-22, 2008 (Westbound).
Space is filling up, so contact MIR today for more information.
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MIR rated one of the "Best Adventure Travel Companies on Earth" by National Geographic AdventureNovember, 2007
In November of 2007, MIR Corporation was included in National Geographic Adventure's first-ever list of 155 top adventure travel outfitters. MIR rated in the top third of these "Best Adventure Travel Companies on Earth."
Described as "the world's first authoritative rating of adventure travel tour operators," the study scored outfitters on criteria such as Quality of Service, Sustainability, Spirit of Adventure, Education and Client Experience. MIR is proud to have been awarded an overall rating of 91.2 in these categories, with an outstanding 97 in "Spirit of Adventure."
As National Geographic Adventure asserts, "When planning the adventure trip of a lifetime, the most important decision isn't where to go, but who to go with."
We agree.
Two "ordinary American tourists" travel to Iran with MIR, in International Travel News (ITN)
April, 2007
Highlighting their friendly interactions with the people of Iran, these travelers describe their experiences on a flexible MIR tour called Essential Iran:
"Since we were speaking English as we toured various sights, including mosques, people often came up to us to find out who we were. There was never the slightest hostility toward us Americans. We had several encounters where people wanted our photos taken with their families (quite a switch for a tourist!)."
Read the full ITN article.
Two MIR Corporation Tours Honored as "Tours of a Lifetime" by National Geographic TravelerOctober, 2006
Two of MIR's core journeys, Chinese Turkestan & Central Asia and Belarus, Ukraine & Moldova have been spotlighted in National Geographic Traveler's October 2006 "Next Great Places" issue.
Honored as "Tours of a Lifetime" these two in-depth experiential journeys go to very different places, but both include MIR's characteristic touch - diving into the cultures and meeting the people of our destinations.
Chinese Turkestan & Central Asia
Silk, spices, tea, precious metals and jewels, carefully lashed to pack camels, made their way from one world to another along the old Silk Road. Travel back in time on our Chinese Turkestan & Central Asia Tour and follow in the footsteps of early explorers who plied the great trade routes connecting East and West. Limited to a maximum of 10 travelers, this Explorer Series trip is among our finest.
Belarus, Ukraine & Moldova
Belarus is a country of factories, wooden houses and farmland where time slowed drastically after the devastation of WWII. Ukraine, the cradle of Slavic civilization, has glittering churches, imperial palaces, fertile farmland and the former Soviet Union's prime real estate, the Crimean Peninsula on the sunny Black Sea. And little Moldova, part Romanian and part Russian, its green hills and plains stitched together with grape vines, is jostling for position in the European winemaking hierarchy.
Changing with every moment that goes by, these three countries should be visited now before the rest of the world discovers them. Join us on this Premier Series venture through Belarus, Ukraine & Moldova. <
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