Blogs from Middle East - page 884

Yazd is a small oasis city in southern central Iran, in the middle of the desert. The landscape during the journey from Esfahan did not look like it changed much in seven hours, though admittedly I was not looking out of the window all the time, allowing the bus to rock me to sleep.The city's water comes from underground qanats miles away in the mountains. Here the women are almost exclusively dressed in chadors and the men a little too friendly! The weather is hot, hot at 35 degrees C, but as a dry heat was bearable as long as you were not too Gilbert and Sullivan about it. Water ran everywhere though. And, like all over Iran, many street corners have their water cisterns where you can refill your water bottle. It is fine to ... read more

Hello there... So yeah, i've signed up at this travel-blog so as to jot down thoughts and stuff about the places i visit and the thoughts that fly into my mind. Well.. for the past few weeks i have been in Tehran : to visit family, frinds and to enjoy the great weather and sights. i was supposed to visit persepolis this week but plans changed and this will be my itinary for this summer: Tehran-Dubai Dubai-Beirut Beirut-Dubai Dubai-Frankfurt Frankfurt -through Europe for a week Frankfurt-Los Angeles Los Angeles - Vancouver/Toronto Canada-Los Angeles Los Angeles-frankfurt Frankfurt-Dubai and then uni begins... i don't even know what i will be studying... phewwww:-s anyways: i do want to visit the following places, too: 1.maldives 2.India 3.Cape Town 4. Greece 5. Russia 6. Sao Paulo 7.Australia 8. Japan 9. mauritus ... read more

Well we had a prep day and registration for the Worlds and did some practise flying. The day was going well till Joe buried his plane in the trees (Small poplar used for pulp). Some damage but he seems to feel it is fixable. I guess it was a misjudgment on his approach. We had the opening ceremonies and all marched on to the field in our own respective countries. It was quite well done and I will post the video on this when I return. Sorry for no pictures. I have had no time to get to it. We are going to be having some early mornings and late nights as there is flying from 8am to 7pm daily for the next 5 days. We have recruited Marco from the German team to help us ... read more

After our mishap in Schenzen we had a great Emirates flight, found a hotel and decided to take a little nap before exploring the city! However our bodies had other plans as our two hour nap turned into seven and we woke up at ten at night! Apparently the missed night of sleep and all the excitement caught up to us! After room service and tv, we arranged for a bus tour the next day so we could see as much as possible in the few hours we had left! Dubai is a beautiful city and definatly the richest one we have seen on our travels. We were able to see a mosque, which runs a program to help people understand Islam better, the infamous seven star hotel, the rich appartments on Palm Islands (man made ... read more

So, we are back from our aegean cruise through the Greek islands! To highlight, we went to Mykonos, Kos, Syros, Paros, Kalymnos, and Bodrum in Turkey. It was a budget cruise put on by the budget airline company; easyjet. And it was worth every penny. Booking ahead, for two people, getting your own room with a bathroom and everything, it was about 112 pounds, or 224 dollars. That's about 112 dollars per person. Which if you think about it, is less than the price of accomodation for 6 nights most of the time. So it was a bargain. Food is not included, but it's actually not that expensive aboard, and the good thing about the cruise, is that it sails in the early morning, and you get to spend all day, and most of the night, ... read more