RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Monday, 9 Jan 2017 | Views [568]
St. Petersburg - General Impressions
The sky unbroken by high rises, pierced only by church and golden spires, beckons the visitor to explore the wide streets and even wider canals of the city. St. Petersburg bubbles with life as it easily merges ... Read more >
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TUNISIA | Saturday, 31 Dec 2016 | Photo Gallery
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EGYPT | Saturday, 31 Dec 2016 | Photo Gallery
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EGYPT | Saturday, 31 Dec 2016 | Photo Gallery
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CZECH REPUBLIC | Saturday, 31 Dec 2016 | Photo Gallery
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LEBANON | Saturday, 31 Dec 2016 | Photo Gallery
Beirut, Sidon, Tyre, Baalbek, Harissa
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JORDAN | Saturday, 31 Dec 2016 | Photo Gallery
Madaba, Jerash, Amman, Mt. Nebo, Dead Sea, Petra, Aqaba
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ISRAEL | Saturday, 31 Dec 2016 | Photo Gallery
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ISRAEL | Saturday, 31 Dec 2016 | Photo Gallery
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ISRAEL | Saturday, 31 Dec 2016 | Photo Gallery
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RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Saturday, 31 Dec 2016 | Photo Gallery
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TUNISIA | Friday, 23 Dec 2016 | Views [990]
Carthage and the Bardo Museum
It was dark as a few hooded figures wound their way around the ancient alleyways of Tyre to seven ships already loaded with precious cargo waiting for them. As they crossed the planks to arrive safely onboard, the ... Read more >
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EGYPT | Thursday, 22 Dec 2016 | Views [652]
Day 9 Alexandria
Alexandria is the site of legends and mystery. The city in the great Delta area ordered to be constructed by Alexander the Great, who never lived to see it completed, has been the locus of some of the major events in ... Read more >
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EGYPT | Thursday, 22 Dec 2016 | Views [586]
Day 8 Coptic Cairo
Before heading off to the Coptic section of the capital city, Cairo Ahmad and I stopped at the Blue Mosque, which isn’t really like the one in Istanbul despite the nickname and having been built by the same architect. The ... Read more >
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NETHERLANDS | Monday, 19 Dec 2016 | Views [613]
I had a ten hour layover in Amsterdam and wanted to use the time to visit a few museums. It is easy to take the 197 bus from the entrance to Schipol airport to the Museumplein or directly to the Rijks Museum. There are a number of museums ... Read more >
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EGYPT | Monday, 19 Dec 2016 | Views [791]
Day 6 Nubian and Egyptian Gods and Goddesses
The boat docked overnight in Aswan. Aswan Ahmad met me on board and we headed out to a car waiting for us on the road above the boat dock. The first stop was to the Aswan High Dam. What I found ... Read more >
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EGYPT | Monday, 19 Dec 2016 | Views [626]
Day 5 Ptolemaic Temples on the Nile
The first stop on the cruise is to the temple at Edfu, which is supposed to be the
best preserved temple in Egypt as it was protected by many meters of sand. The Ptolemaic era temple is dedicated ... Read more >
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EGYPT | Monday, 19 Dec 2016 | Views [580]
Day 3 Tombs and Temples
Woke early to catch a 7am flight to Luxor, formerly Thebes, the ancient capital with a couple of breaks, from the 11 th Dynasty (2120 BCE) to the 21 st (1085). As with the previous day, it should have been split into at ... Read more >
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EGYPT | Monday, 19 Dec 2016 | Views [515]
Day 1 First Impressions and the Egyptian Museum
Arrived on a KLM flight in the middle of the night and hoped that the agent with whom I’d been in online contact was actually going to be at the airport to meet me. The prospect of arriving at ... Read more >
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RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Saturday, 21 May 2016 | Photo Gallery
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ARMENIA | Wednesday, 9 Sep 2015 | Photo Gallery
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AZERBAIJAN | Wednesday, 9 Sep 2015 | Views [728]
Azerbaijan Impressions
It was stifling hot in August in Azerbaijan! The desert radiated heat while pulsating to the rhythm of black arms digging into golden sands iin the fields upon fields of oil rigs. My journey to this relatively ... Read more >
ARMENIA | Wednesday, 9 Sep 2015 | Views [1249]
Armenian Impressions
As we came closer to the Georgian-Armenian border the houses and structures changed; they became less updated and clean and more run-down old Eastern Block Soviet. Armenians inhabit in this part of Georgia and the tensions ... Read more >
GEORGIA | Wednesday, 9 Sep 2015 | Views [1043]
Georgian Impressions
I arrived in Tbilisi in the middle of the night from Riga and was luckily met by a driver who took me directly to the hotel so that I didn’t have to hassle with public transportation at 3:30 am. The GT ... Read more >
AZERBAIJAN | Monday, 17 Aug 2015 | Photo Gallery
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