During my latest visit to Oman, as well as visiting the coastal capital Muscat, I ventured into the interior to the Al Hajar Mountains, to Nizwa with its fort, and to the impressive Jebel Akhdar, or Green Mountain. Click on the pictures below for a description of each place. Situated at the South-Eastern corner […]
Socotra is a place of legends and myths. In ancient times, the Phoenicians – the seafarers from what is today Lebanon – believed that it was on this mysterious island in the Indian Ocean that the phoenix lived. It was also thought to be the home of another mythical bird, the giant roc, which […]
Uruk, in what is today southern Iraq, is one of the oldest cities on earth and a thought provoking place to visit. As I walked around the crumbling remains, the ground littered with shards of pottery thousands of years old, it was a strange feeling indeed. Referred to in the Old Testament as Erech, the […]
