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My first impressions of Shiraz

Of all the Iranian cities, my favourite is Shiraz. I fell in love with it, even before I visited there. […]

September 14, 2021

Iran was the first country where I had traveled solo and you can say that I started with a bang. […]

September 13, 2021

A visit to the Rock Palace of Wadi Dhahr happened all of a sudden. Post Bayt Bows day of unrest, […]

May 2, 2020

Perched atop a rugged pinkish red plateau, Kawkaban literally means “two stars”. It is also called “the eagle nest” and […]

April 30, 2020

The most essential commodity in a semi arid region is water and that was what made Hababa so special. It […]

April 29, 2020

At the time of my Yemen visit, special permits were required to visit any place in and it the country […]

April 28, 2020

At the time of my visit in 2016, Yemen was in the news for all the wrong reasons. The situation […]

April 25, 2020

I first came to know of the Socotra island when I was in school. A brilliant TV commercial featuring the […]

April 12, 2020

The attention span of humans is very short and the memory is even shorter. It has the wonderful capability of […]

April 10, 2020

Visa – United Arab Emirates tourist visa for Indian passport holders is fairly easy to procure and can be availed […]

August 13, 2014