The country offers significant potential for attracting international visitors with stunning desert landscapes, mountain ranges, and archeological sites that would be flooded with tourists if they were elsewhere. But even Tripoli, the capital, is a pleasant city with a perfect balance of old and modern. The Italian colonial era left a lasting impact on Libya […]
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For most people, Libya is a mystery. It is an Arab country, but not like the others. It is an African country, but they do not regard themselves as such, and Libya was only proclaimed independent in 1952. Before that, there were three separate regions – Tripolitania in the west, Cyrenaica in the east, and
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Turkmenistan is one of the most unknown countries in the world, surrounded by complete mystery. Although many people associate Turkmenistan primarily with strange presidential decrees and gas craters burning non-stop for decades, it has three World Heritage Sites, including Merv, once the world’s largest city along the Silk Road. Today, the sparsely populated country, mostly
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Turkmenistan is by far the less-traveled country in Central Asia, with around 14,000 tourists per year, enveloped in complete mystery. It was also one of the last countries to open for tourists in March 2023 after the pandemic. Several questions arise, for example how to get to the country and if it is worth visiting.
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Syria is not the same as before, but there is so much more behind how you imagine it through the lenses of the media. Despite the large-scale damages, the ancient heritage is still fascinating and Syria has so much to offer. While it is partly covered by desert, it also has mountain ranges with lush
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Before 2011, Syria was a popular tourist destination in the Middle East, and tourism significantly contributed to the state revenues. It was known for its authentic Arab culture, hospitality, and astonishing historic sights dating back thousands of years. And all that did not simply disappear. With the breakout of the “Arab Spring”, starting in Tunisia
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The southern part of Eastern Turkey is inhabited mainly by Kurds, famous for their hospitality. This is also the region with the world’s most ancient civilizations of Upper Mesopotamia, the land between Tigris and Euphrates, and where people first converted to Christianity. Although domestic tourism thrives in this region, and there can be crowds in
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While the western part of Turkey, with Istanbul, the coast, and until Cappadocia, is a tourist hub, Eastern Turkey remains a completely blank region for most travelers, but even many Turkish people never went there. The wild and rugged Anatolian Plateau feels like being a country within a country with a completely different landscape, culture,
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Are you planning a trip to Kosovo, one of the least visited destinations in Europe and even in the Balkan? Kosovo is much more than what you hear about it in the media. Unfortunately, it is still mainly associated with the war of the 1990s. But Kosovo has a surprisingly good infrastructure, and the construction
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You might hesitate whether to visit Mitrovica, the divided city in Kosovo at all, and if you should stay there overnight as this is the hotspot of the Albanian-Serbian conflict. I spent a night on the Serbian side. Although apart from a few monuments, Mitrovica is not as beautiful as Prizren, it was a very
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