Most people visit Hong Kong and spend their entire time looking at the skyline from the Tsim Sha Tsui promenade. It’s a postcard. It’s fine.…
Angkor Wat: Built to Impress
It was a cloudy afternoon on our third day in Siem Reap and we were on our way to a massive 12th-century temple in a forest-studded setting.…
Vestiges of Semarang’s Ethnic Quarters
Jalan Pandanaran is a busy four-lane street in downtown Semarang, a city of 1.6 million people that is also the capital of Indonesia’s Central Java…
Banteay Srei: Poetry in Stone
Over the course of history, we have read and seen how with the rise of great kingdoms and empires these opposing sides of what human…
Wadi Rum: Where Imagination Runs Wild
It is remote and barren. It is a land of scorching heat. Yet, here we are, in Wadi Rum, a large valley in the southern…
5 Reasons Why I Fell in Love with Vienna
I have told you the story of my Eurotrip earlier in this blog. In that post I have said that my favorite city is Vienna. Therefore, I…
Istanbul’s Roman Footprints
The 55 stone steps take me to a vast underground opening where rows of floodlit columns are partially submerged under the clear freshwater. Grey fish…
The Architectural Marvels of Constantinople
From the outside it is a structure of plain layers of bricks protruding from the exposed weathered pink wall, supporting a massive dome flanked by…
Kota Lama: Between Restoration and Reinvention
Only time will tell. This cliché has been proven over and over again. We’ll never know what the future has in store, and despite our…
A Travel Through Time, Coventry
Coventry is the second largest city in the West Midlands, trailing only Birmingham which is the country’s second largest city after London. Located only 19…