Africa & Middle East Travel Diaries

Tell people that you intend visiting Lebanon and you get a range of reactions in response. These range from the slightly bemused "That's different!" through a seemingly hostile "Are you crazy? What do you want to go there for!" to blank faced ignorance of "Whereabouts is that then?"

To many people in the UK Beirut was, is and always will be, a war zone- a place where you are more likely to be taken

Africa & Middle East Travel Diaries Travel experiences: Oman

by Vivian Lu

Top 10 ways to have fun broken down in a remote Omani mountain pass.....

1) Watch wild donkey graze
2) Swat flies
3) Hallucinate that

Africa & Middle East Travel Diaries Travel experiences: Mauritius

by Annette

Travel is a learning experience. Going to Mauritius and booking into a resort is a holiday not travel. People get off the plane into

Africa & Middle East Travel Diaries Travel experiences: Jeita Grotto, Beirut

by Denise Gabbard

Jeita Grotto Beirut

Years ago, when the original list of Seven Wonders of the World was written, many places that were equally as