Travel Blogs Middle East

Manama is the capital of Bahrain with a beautiful skyline and a very developed city centre. The CBD of the city is packed with tall skyscrapers and compared to the rolling sand dunes on the rest of the island this city really stands out.

Manama has two pair of twin towers, the ones of the Bahrain World Trade Centre and those of the Bahrain Financial Harbor which look out over the...

The Murree Hills are located in the north of Pakistan and known as country's most popular hill station.

The town of Murree can be easily reached from the capital of Islamabad, about an hour and a half by car, and most residents of head to the hills during their holidays.

Eventhough Murree is a popular summer resort with the Pakistani people living in Islamabad...

Like Bukhara in Uzbekistan also Mary, or Merv, is located on the ancient Silk Road which connected all the imporant commercial centres of the Asian Empire.

Today Mary is known for its markets, friendly locals and of course the golden statues of the former Turkmen president Sapamurat Niyazov who died in 2006.

Not only in Agadir, the capital of Turkmenistan, Niyazov...

We decided to travel through Armenia and stay in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, to celebrate christmas and New Years Eve.

The whole city was filled with christmas decorations and at night the glowing christmas tree in the middle of Republic Square together with the lights of the National Gallery and the fountains in front of it was beautiful.

Especially for...

Bukhara is the capital of the Bukhara Province near the Uzbekistan-Turkmenistan border and located on the Silk Road which connects the most important trade points of the Asian Continent.

Bukhara which today is part of Uzbekistan used to carry the name Sogdania as part of this mighty Asian empire. The Silk Road ran all the way to Europe to trade it's most precious product; chinese...