Middle East
Warm welcome in Iran
When I announced to friends I was going to Iran, I was usually met with shocked silence, puzzled looks, and finally, "You're going where? Aren't you afraid?"
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Arabian knights come to the rescue
If camels could laugh, these big lumpy giants of the desert would be in hysterics. Long necks craned over their pen; eyes following the action. We could sense the disdain. What should have been a quiet, early afternoon in the middle of almost nowhere, is anything but quiet. A black beast with engine gunning
Gift of the Nile
As our plane approached the town of Aswan in southern Egypt, I could see the meandering Nile below. Beyond the line of the river and the green ribbon of lush irrigated lands that paralleled it, there was nothing but the vast sands of the Sahara.
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Israel is more than religious pilgrimages
When you think of visiting Israel, you think more of pilgrimages to the Wailing Wall and Mount Sinai than boutique hotels and off-road motorcycle racing. But with the country, now 60 years old, breaking tourism records and shattering the stained-glass ceiling of religious pilgrimage, it is attracting pleasu
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48 hours in Oman's Musandam peninsula
Oman's northern enclave of Musandam, with its rocky fjords and colorful coral reefs, is a regular getaway for city dwellers from the Gulf and beyond. Reuters correspondents with local knowledge help you make the most of an area often dubbed the Norway of the Gulf.
Yemen's natural wonders
Evolution has run riot on Yemen's windy isles of Socotra, whose dizzying cliffs, jagged peaks and exotic plants entice the imagination to do the same.
Modernity meets monasticism in Egypt's desert
A speck of green in a sea of sand, St. Anthony's Monastery in Egypt welcomes those seeking God in silence broken only by the whisper of the wind.
Oman sees tourism future in golf as well as sunshine
It may have year-round sunshine, sandy beaches, cliff-top forts and desert dunes, but Oman is hoping golf will help it lure more tourists as it tries to wean its economy off oil exports.
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