Tag: travel

7 Must-Have Travel Tech Accessories

Once the most important travel tech was your film camera, a map, some cash and a compass. Now don't travel without a local SIM card, and a solar charger for your iPhone.

Traveling Slow Benefits You, Local Communities and the Environment 

Travelling slow is the opposite of In and Out for the Instagram picture. There are no bus tours or itineraries. Or "we did this" and "we did that". Travelling slow is a way of life, and it might change yours and others'.

Dancing to Connect programs demonstrate the power of dance, especially for youth

English is my primary language, but even if I didn’t speak some Arabic, Greek and French too, I’d still...

The ‘original iPad’ – 1,200 years before Apple

Turkish archaeologists have unearthed what Discovery News calls the 'Byzantine iPad." Dated to the 9th century A.D., the wooden tool was found among a shipyard...

Artsy Dar Ben Gacem hotel awakens bygone Ottoman era in Tunis

To sleep at Dar Ben Gacem is to spend a night in a bygone era. Located deep in the...

Desert Breath spirals on Red Sea remind us of troubled Egypt’s immense beauty

To many Egyptians, the desert is a hostile place: water is scarce, terror cells hide in its vast expanse,...

The Iconic VW Van in the Middle East

Volkswagen's "hippie van" was the preferred mode of transportation for peace lovers during the 1960s, but Brazil is shutting...

Ottoman Palaces Converted into Gorgeous Boutique Efendi Hotel

Uri Jeremias peered over the roof of his restaurant back in 2001 and fell in love with a large...

The Marrakech Museum for Photography and Visual Arts to be World’s Largest

David Chipperfield Architects have designed a resplendent new building in fascinating, frustrating Morocco, which will house the The Marrakech Museum...

The “Arabian Canal” is a Defunct Water Conduit in Dubai

In my last post I featured a photograph of an unused structure out in the desert near Dubai, a...

Shi Shaoping Depicts China’s Desert Scenes with Eggs

There is something so haunting about desert landscapes, and much as we love our own in the Middle East...

SIWA Oasis Near Libya to Get Solar from the Gulf

For outsiders, SIWA oasis in Egypt is a wonderful place to visit precisely because "civilization" has been so slow to...