Middle East
Beaches, safaris, ski hills worth a stopover in surreal Dubai
Dubai is a hot destination -- literally. The temperature can rise to 40 C in the summer, but with modern technology, major shopping bargains and cooler evenings, Dubai has made the desert bearable.
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Opening to tourism, Syria flaunts hidden treasures
While tourists have long travelled to see Egypt’s pyramids, tense ties with the West made Syria a no-go zone for decades, but that may be changing.
Oman's barren hills hold history in their embrace
During the monsoons the mountainous Dhofar region of southern Oman is draped green, its peaks topped with white mist.
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48 hours in Tel Aviv
Got 48 hours to spend in Tel Aviv, the cosmopolitan, urban heart of Israeli culture?
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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.
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
Cruising the royal route of the pharaohs
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.
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.
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