Category: Middle East travel

Back at the end of 2020 we put up a post on planning trips to bucket list destinations before they got busy again. We hope you took advantage of …

How do you think about travel, as news of war, climate emergency, political division, and other events appear across the world? With your skills and experiences as a traveler …

While the U.S. passport is not the “most powerful” in the world in terms of countries we can enter without applying for a visa, it’s still up near the …

Trees: whether you think about them or not they help define and inform your travels. Rainforests, jungles, mountainsides, autumn leaves,. flowering branches in spring, fruit for summer harvests, trees …

Paul Salopek began his current journey in Ethiopia. At this writing, travel changes and border closings find him paused in Myanmar. It has taken him seven years to get …

What is a micro trip? The editors of Lonely Planet have taken the idea of short trips in a rather interesting direction in the book called Micro Trips. They’ve …

Food: it’s an essential part of travel. Maybe you seek out special meals, look for a farmer’s market, or happen on a quick snack at a roadside stand. Whatever …

The Harvard University campus — the whole Boston area, in fact — is filled with world class museums. The Fogg, the Busch Reisinger, the Museum of Fine Arts, the …

Despite lots of obstacles, travelers are still heading to Turkey by the millions. We’ve expressed our love of Turkey on this blog multiple times, raving about the food and the …

As Tamerlane’s army approached the village of Noratus, the army stopped in its tracks. From a distance, the villagers had miraculously gathered together an impressive army,  standing firmly in …

The phrase breaking bread together is an immediately recognizable metaphor for connecting, for meeting up, for sharing. Sharing food, sharing stories are basic ways of enjoying friendships old and …

What they call the Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi is, in my opinion, a misnomer. Grand just seems to fall short as a description. The full name is the …