spices in Turkey

Eating My Way Through Turkey

Pastries, Coffee, and Dinner in Turkey By Erin Phelan We sip coffee and take in the Cappadocian morning. Soft hues light up the sky, the dew on the grass smells sweet, and there is an undeniable excitement afoot, likely because we’re about to have an aerial look at this bizarre,…

A Tunisian market in Soliman, a city in Tunisia.

Tunisia and Its Breathtaking Scenery

Witness the Jaw-Dropping Scenery Tunisia Has to Off, First Hand. By David Rich Parts of Tunisia out-Greeks Greece and out-Romes Italy, white-washed houses trimmed in blue, cascading down to the translucent Mediterranean at Sidi Bou, practically a suburb of Tunis. Meanwhile the world’s best-preserved Roman ruins and mosaics pepper the…

Hitting the Dunes

Qatar: Capturing the Magic of Arabia

By Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey Where? Protruding from the Saudi Arabian peninsula like a thumb, the emirate of Qatar is small — 4,416 square miles (11,437 sq. km) — and nearly totally surrounded by the turquoise waters of the Arabian Gulf. The country is flat with some rocky outcrops up to 130…

Oman Nizwa

Oman: Storybook Enchantment

By Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey Where Stretched along the southern coast of the Saudi Arabian Peninsula, Oman covers an area of 120,000 square miles (309,500 sq km), with a coastline of 1,000 miles (1,700 km) reaching from the Arabian Gulf past the Gulf of Oman to the Strait of Hormuz. Oman has…

egypt exotic resorts

A Celebration in Luxor: A Little Humor Goes a Long Way

A Luxorian Celebration By Jason Gaskell “Your name is Oh-ma?” I asked, not quite catching the pronunciation. “No, Omar, you know, like Omar Sharif?” “Ah, Omar! You were great in Doctor Zhivago” I had been told that humour goes a long way in Egypt. The horse and cart driver seemed…

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