When you arrive in Dubai you are overwhelmed by modernity and the city’s skyscrapers, all built in the last twenty years. A city famous for luxury and the speed with which it has…
Middle East
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It came quite as a surprise when our friends at Volagratis invited me to a blog tour organized in cooperation with the Jordanian tourism board. Among emotion, doubts and wishes, before leaving…
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Musandam – a governorate of Oman – is a spectacular peninsula ending with the Strait of Hormuz just a few miles from Iran. On one side it baths in the Persian Gulf,…
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When during our car trip in Southern Lebanon my travel companions suggested a visit to the Mleeta Resistance Tourist Landmark, the monumental museum established to honour Hezbollah’s fight against the Israeli occupation,…
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It’s already 10 pm when my plane from Cairo arrives in Beirut. The modern airport of the Lebanese capital welcomes me with soft lights and classy stores. Nothing points to the dramatic…
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In order to understand Lebanon‘s complex society we need to dig into its history. And there are few stories in Lebanon with more ancient roots than the ones beginning in Byblos. Byblos…
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Whenever I’m getting ready for a new journey I already have some pictures into my mind. I took some information from my readings and this may mitigate my surprise, but at the…
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I am standing, or to be precise wobbling, on a boat as it bobs about on the leaden water, storm clouds brewing above. For a moment I truly believe that I’m in…
