"Bokhara, the most shameless sink of iniquity that I know in the East." -Arminius Vambery, Hungarian traveller and first European to...

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The world’s second deepest canyon goes by several different names. You may see it called Wadi Ghul or Wadi Nakhar, with Wadi being an...

I wouldn’t be the first to remark that the feeling of being in a desert is not too different from that of sailing through wide-open...

What images come to your mind when you read the word “Oman”? If you had asked me this question two years ago, I probably wouldn’t be able...