Archive for the ‘Middle East’ Category
The luck of the Irish is all a myth! One Irish woman’s account of a Jordanian car crash and police station. “Oh come on Lyndsay, where’s your sense of adventure? The King’s Highway will be SO much more interesting than the straight desert road!” exclaimed my travelling companion Jen in a tone which indicated that, contrary to the fearless, intrepid, twenty-something backpacker which I had always held myself out to be, on this occasion at least, I was being over-cautious and boring. “But if we get the bus along the straight desert road, we can get to Petra quicker. Driving the Highway will take much longer…” I […]
People have many reasons to travel and it’s the diversity of those reasons that makes it such an interesting society. While some travellers want to see the most beautiful natural features of the world and others want to visit the most interesting cultural heritage highlights of the world, there are some of us who just want to see the biggest, tallest, greatest, oldest etc. of what the world has to offer. If you are planning to visit dubai you can apply for dubai visa online. Here are some of my tips from the United Arab Emriates, North Korea and beyond. The Tallest Buildings Many countries in the […]
For those of you not familiar with the past Iraqi War or with Persian geography, you may not have heard of a couple of places that have played a part in its history. You may not have heard of Amna Suraka. This place is located in Iraq and is considered as one of the more impressive museums in Iraq. It has however, a fairly dark and horrible past. Being a former prison, the museum houses not only memories but painful incidences in Iraqi history as well. It has been the location wherein thousands of Kurdish prisoners were punished and tortured just because they were Kurdish […]
