We all want to go out some day and explore the world like the adventures of the old. The road less travelled however is fraught with danger, we hear horror stories of tourists in trouble almost everyday in the evening news. When exploring the world may be a lot of fun, travelers should be more careful with their footsteps because not every place has their personal safety guaranteed. For those of you who can afford it, you can travel the world enjoying yourself, but always remember that danger is always around the corner, no place can ever be one hundred percent safe
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Hollywood likes portraying Arabia as this backward region whereby the inhabitants don’t have any beautiful fashion, for instance a rich western tourist would land in an airport in an Arab country and be met with people who are dressed in a single type of clothe. All the men would be wearing white robes while all …
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The process of determining a vehicle’s position and directing its movement is called navigation. The word navigation comes from two Latin words-navis, meaning “ship,” and agere, meaning “to drive.” The explorers of the 1500s sailed with only a few simple technological aids to guide them. However, with these, along with the stars and the Sun, …
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Imagine yourself a medieval traveler, perhaps-en-route from the Mediterranean to East Asia in search of exotic spices, silks, jewels, and perfumes. On the road, hundreds or thousands of miles from home, you meet your fellow travelers: merchants from the East and the West carrying trade goods, pilgrims on their way to religious shrines, knights in …
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During the Middle Ages, Europeans’ knowledge of the world greatly increased. The Crusades gave many Europeans a firsthand introduction to a world with which they had previously had little or no contact. In the East, at this same time, geography was becoming one of the greatest of the Muslim sciences. A number of Arab travelers …
Here are the poems of captain Job Seals, the one who sailed mighty ships across treacherous seas and anchored them safely on shores battered by violent storms, to all the sailors of the southern coasts, he says… I am Captain Job son of Jeffry Seals, I have crossed many oceans and visited many …
Since childhood I have always wanted to travel to Egypt, to dine with the Pharaohs, and take a closer look at their majestic tombs, those huge arrow head like structures that protrude from the desert sands and glitter like gems in the colored sunsets, I would like to observe them carefully and uncover the …
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There’s been turmoil in Egypt in the recent years that threatened the country’s lucrative tourism industry, international adventurers were scarred away from Egypt following the disturbing images that were streaming live out of the Egyptian Capital and its environs, now, slowly but surely the tourists are beginning to return Since the Egyptian hieroglyphs were …
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I have always feared flying. The recent trend of these so called super advanced jets falling out of the sky has compounded my fear, it means that am not going to fly again any time soon, I always wonder if there can be really any accident proof aircraft there that I can use, if there …
… First of all I am speaking on my own personal account, so let no one take my words as accurate account of what is actually happening at the Glittering Desert Metropolis, I am not a Muslim and I don’t come from anywhere in the middle East, but events in the past few months …