{"id":49013,"date":"2025-08-17T10:10:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T18:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=49013"},"modified":"2025-08-25T15:31:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T23:31:01","slug":"combine-the-world-orchid-conference-with-an-orchid-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/17\/combine-the-world-orchid-conference-with-an-orchid-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Combine the World Orchid Conference with an Orchid Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re heading to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woc-2026.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the World Orchid Conference (WOC) in Germany next year<\/a>, there&#8217;s a great chance to combine your trip with an orchid tour. The <a href=\"https:\/\/orchidconservationalliance.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orchid Conservation Alliance (OCA,)<\/a> an excellent group doing essential work, is offering a tour in Greece before the conference. <a href=\"https:\/\/orchidconservationalliance.org\/rhodes-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From March 17-24, 2026, the OCA presents a special visit to the Greek Island of Rhodes.<\/a> Expert guides hope to locate 40 or more species in bloom. Afterwards, the WOC, also known as the &#8220;Orchid Olympics,&#8221; takes place in Dresden from March 26-29, 2026. If you want to immerse yourself in orchids for a couple weeks, these are superb opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re heading to the World Orchid Conference (WOC) in Germany next year, there&#8217;s a great chance to combine your trip with an orchid tour. The Orchid Conservation Alliance (OCA,) an excellent group doing essential work, is offering a tour in Greece before the conference. From March 17-24, 2026, the OCA presents a special visit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49013"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49170,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49013\/revisions\/49170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}