Karnak Temple Karnak Temple is actually a city of temples built over a 2,000-year span from roughly 2055 BC to 100 AD although recent research dates it to 32...

Monastery of St. Simon The Christian residents of Garbage City (see below) needed a place to worship after a fire destroyed their church. A cave in the near...

Also known as Old Cairo, this area grew around the Roman fortress of Babylon built at the time of Augustus after his conquest of Egypt in 30 BC. Nowadays it...

The Nile is the lifeblood of Egypt. It's tied with the Amazon for the distinction of being the longest river in the world. It begins near Lake Victoria in ...

This was a "pinch-me" day. Seeing the pyramids in person is like seeing the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower or the Sydney Opera House for the first time. Being ...

Egypt has been on our list of countries to visit for a long time. When the "Arab Spring" demonstrations (which the Egyptians call the "revolution") took pl...

We spent half a day visiting The Citadel, high on a hill above Cairo. It was built in the 12th century to defend the ancient city against Crusaders. Today ...

The Grand Palace is a must-see destination; you shouldn't leave Bangkok without visiting it. In fact, it was the icing on the cake for our amazing three-wee...

We had such an interesting day visiting these two markets! Actually, neither market is in Bangkok despite their names. They're both located about a two-hou...

Wat Traimit, Temple of the Golden Buddha We hired a guide to take us to both these temples. You could certainly visit them on your own, but our guide bought...

We knew we wanted to go to Bangkok, but we also wanted to get a taste of another part of Thailand. With a population of under 150,000 people, Chiang Mai is ...

There are about 300 temples in and around Chiang Mai. In this post we highlight three of the most famous ones; two in the old city and one on the mountain o...