Archive for the 'Countries' Category

Feb 04 2009

Travels in Jordan

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One of the most interesting tours we did was to the Cave of the Seven Sleepers: Cave of the Seven Sleepers. The cave is mentioned in the verse of Al Kahf in the Al Quran. It is the story of seven young men during Roman times pre-Byzantine who escaped persecution and found refuge in a [...]

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Jan 31 2009

Iceland for a holiday….

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Due to the Economic crisis that is happening around the world, many countries that were expensive to travel to before have decreased in price and have become more economically viable to travel to.
In Iceland a few years ago a bottle of beer was around 7£ where do the exchange rate a bottle of beer is [...]

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Oct 31 2008

Myanmar

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Mystical Myanmar
We decided that Myanmar would be our next stop. A country that’s permanently in turmoil but a country that welcomes tourists to come and visit. The people here were inviting and extremely friendly and I would recommend anyone visit this beautiful country.
We started with a tour of Yangon centre we walked through the streets [...]

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Oct 27 2008

Braving Bulgaria

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I decided to travel from Istanbul to Bulgaria just for a few days. The bus journey from Istanbul is only a few hours se we jumped on a night bus heading for Sofia.
We arrived, sometime the following day, I have no idea what time is was, as I had lost all concept of time on [...]

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Oct 22 2008

Cuba

Published by caroline under Countries

Entering Cuba is a pretty painful and scary experience, the immigration was designed to be as intimidating as possible, it didn’t seem to matter where you came from they made you feel like you were doing something wrong.. As we waited patiently in line with plenty of other travelers in this huge grey building that [...]

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Oct 20 2008

Chilling in Croatia

Published by caroline under Countries

Croatia was one of the most fun counties I have ever been. Being a European country and fairly modern, there was hardly any culture shock and everything felt pretty comfortable.
The entire country of Croatia is absolutely beautiful. The ocean is the most amazing color of blue I have ever seen! I have never seen water [...]

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Oct 08 2008

Awesome Aurora Holiday

Published by caroline under Countries

My usually holiday is one that involves lots of hot sunshine nice beaches and plenty of bars. I always go away around September as the kids go back to school and everywhere is cheaper. However this year we decided to do something totally different and go to Iceland a bit of change to Benidorm, Majorca [...]

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Jul 02 2008

The Worlds largest mirror!

Published by caroline under Countries

If you love mirrors, I think you want to see the world’s largest mirror – Salar de Uyuni J It is the largest salt flat in the world, which is located in southwest Bolivia.
Salar de Uyuni was a part of Lake Minchin but when the lake dried, it was formed to Poopo Lake, Uru Uru [...]

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Jul 02 2008

My trip to Laos

Published by caroline under Countries

I didn’t know even the place of Laos in the map before our Asia tour comprised two days in Laos. We were on our way to China when we stopped in Vientiane which is the capital city of Laos. We stayed at Lao Plaza Hotel which we enjoyed very much.
We saw many monks wearing a [...]

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Jun 23 2008

Beautiful Nadi!

Published by caroline under Countries

My husband, little son and I went to Nadi- Fiji last year. It was a marvelous holiday. I can surely say that it was even our best holiday. We stayed at the Hilton Fiji Beach Resort Hotel which was 20 km from the airport.
Our first day in Nadi was so much fun. We experienced many [...]

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