three trips to morocco 1987, 2006, 2009... read more

we started our trip in damascus, then we visited maaulla and headed to palmyra. stayed there three nights and it was so hot. from palmyra to the huge crusader castle Krak des chevalliers and stayed in the pleasant city of hama on the orontes river. don't miss the gardens and the norias. we stayed at cairo hotel, which we warmy recommend. the owner organizes trip to the sourrandings including apamea and the dead cities. the went to visit the roman city of apamea and the wonderful dead city of baara and serjilla. then we took the bus to aleppo and stayed in a nice little hotel in the old city, right in the middle of the souqs. after three nights in the city went to gianzantep in turkey and headed north to katha. we slept in ... read more

we left to Gondar and on the road we stopped at Gondara Castle, an old fortress high on the hills from where you see both lake Tana and the plains. Gonder has a beautiful Royal enclosure and some old churches with paintings and murals... read more

we stayed at Z Guesthouse, located in the northern part of the city, close to the national museum the guesthouse was like a home and our landlord and his family the best hosts you can have.... read more

again by shinkansen we travelled from kyoto station to Hiroshima, about two hours. we walked to the Peace Memorial Park and visited the impressive museums in silence in the early afternoon we took a local train to the island of Miyajima and saw the famous red floating Tori and the island temples. we were lucky since we saw a shintoist religious cerimony with monks playing traditional instruments and dancing on the platform in front of the tori.... read more