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A short visit to Dubai

Dubai is a city in the United Arab Emirates known for luxury shopping, ultramodern architecture and a lively nightlife scene. I admit this isn’t a favourite destination and I don’t really find much appealing about it, however, it does make for a short break or stop-over. Burj Khalifa, an 830m-tall tower, dominates the skyscraper-filled skyline. […]

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Merzouga Village in Morocco

Merzouga is a village in the Sahara Desert in Morocco, on the edge of Erg Chebbi, a 50km long and 5km wide set of sand dunes that reach up to 350m high. The small village of Merzouga is known for its proximity to Erg Chebbi dunes in southeastern Morocco, a Saharan erg, and it is, […]

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MONKEY PAWS MOUNTAINS

Dramatic rock formations at the ‘Monkey’s Fingers’ in the Dades Valley, also referred to as the Monkey Paws mountains. The Monkey Fingers or Monkey Paws mountains are near the Dadès Gorge, next to Aït Ouglif and is located in Souss-Massa-Drâa, Morocco. The River Dades was an important trading river along the Route of a Thousand Kasbahs, and […]

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Wadi Rum – Desert Adventures

Wadi Rum is a spectacularly scenic desert valley in southern Jordan. This area of Jordan is quite isolated and largely inhospitable to settled life. The only permanent inhabitants are several thousand Bedouin nomads and villagers. There is no real infrastructure, leaving the area quite unspoilt. Apart from the Bedouin goat hair tents, the only structures […]

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Petra – ancient desert city

The fabled “rose-red city, half as old as time”, Petra is the well known ancient Nabataean city in the south of Jordan, recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985. Chosen in July 2007 as one of the New Seven Wonders and what may be one of the most expensive admissions to any archaeological site […]