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Jordan is the Middle Eastern country most Western travellers approach with the least expectation and leave with the most enthusiasm. It is small (roughly the size of Indiana), almost entirely desert, with very few natural resources — and it contains ...
***The advice of the UK FCDO, US State Department, and most European foreign ministries as of May 2026 is Level 4 "Do Not Travel" for Lebanon.*** Lebanon entered 2026 in a way that its residents describe as "the new normal" which is to say, be...
If you're planning a trip to Israel and wondering whether it's actually feasible right now — the answer is: it depends on where you're going and what your government recommends. As of April 2026, the situation is complex but not uniformly dangerous. ...
Kuwait is a small, oil-rich emirate at the northwestern tip of the Persian Gulf — bordered by Iraq to the north and Saudi Arabia to the south. With a population of around 4.8 million (of whom roughly 70% are expatriates), Kuwait is one of the world's...
Here's the paradox of traveling to Iran as an American: the country itself is incredibly cheap, but getting there is expensive. Iran's currency has lost enormous value against the dollar due to sanctions and inflation, which means your money goes abs...
Syria was, before 2011, one of the most underrated travel destinations in the Middle East: a country of extraordinary ancient cities, exceptional food, and some of the most significant historical sites on earth. The civil war that began in 2011 devas...
Before traveling to the Middle East, safety is the first question most people ask — and for Oman, the answer is genuinely reassuring. The Global Peace Index regularly places Oman among the top 10% safest countries in the world. Crime against tourists...
Nigeria doesn't ease you in gently. Lagos in particular arrives at full volume — traffic that defies description, energy you can feel physically, commerce happening in every available square metre, and human warmth that catches most visitors complete...
We're not going to sugarcoat this. The US State Department rates Iran as Level 4: Do Not Travel — its highest warning level, the same as active war zones like Syria, Somalia, and Yemen. That sounds terrifying. But the reasons for Iran's Level 4 ratin...
Cyprus is the third-largest island in the Mediterranean, located at its eastern end — closer to Beirut than to Athens, closer to Turkey than to Italy, but very much a European Union country with European standards of infrastructure, food, and safe...
Uzbekistan is one of the most architecturally extraordinary countries on earth. The Silk Road cities that pass through it — Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva — were, for centuries, among the most important cities in the world: hubs of commerce, Islamic schol...
Nepal's monkeys are not a wildlife sighting — they are a participant in daily Nepali life. In Kathmandu Valley and throughout the hills, rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) move through temples, rooftops, and forest edges as naturally as the forest does...