Category: Asia
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WADI RUM – JORDAN
5/4/24 – 6/4/24 I had opted to take a ride from Petra to Wadi Rum Village with Asri Tours, a minibus operator that makes the trip twice a day. Everyone in this area is well-connected, and the guy who runs Asri Tours (on the minibus, of course) contacted Ibrahim, the manager of Wadi Rum Fire…
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PETRA – JORDAN
4/4/24 – 5/4/24 There are a variety of options for getting from Amman to Wadi Musa, the town located next to Petra, ranging from local minibuses to private drivers. I opted for the middle ground – the tourist-oriented JETT bus. This company runs coaches and small buses between various sites in Jordan – it appears…
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AMMAN – JORDAN
3/4/24 – 4/4/24 Amman’s main airport, Queen Alia International, is well-equipped to handle foreign arrivals, as Jordan is quickly becoming a tourism hotspot, with travellers flocking to the kingdom to visit the ancient archaeological site of Petra, and see the vast expanses of desert at Wadi Rum. This also means that the arrivals area is…
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ERBIL – IRAQI KURDISTAN
31/3/24 – 3/4/24 I’d been told that the best way to get around in Iraq was to use the shared taxi system, which operate from garages around the country’s major cities. This approach worked well the previous day, when travelling to Hillah en-route to Babylon, and so I headed out of Baghdad, this time from…
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BAGHDAD – IRAQ
28/3/24 – 31/3/24 Back in 2022, I found myself sat in Istanbul Airport watching the departure boards. Turkish Airlines flies to a remarkable number of destinations, ranging from tourist metropolises to war zones, and I wondered who would be on each of those different flights. One of those destinations was Baghdad, and I told myself…
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DOHA – QATAR
28/3/24 I’m not one to pass up an opportunity to visit a new city, and Doha was no different. I’d originally intended to fly directly from Lahore to Baghdad with FlyBaghdad, however U.S. sanctions had been placed on the airline, and their flights had been cancelled. My alternative was a trip with Qatar via Doha,…
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LAHORE – PAKISTAN
25/3/24 – 28/3/24 Crossing the Wagah Border was certainly a bucket list item for me – and once I had stepped across the boundary line and through the gates, I was officially in Pakistan, and quickly en-route to the country’s cultural capital, Lahore. Lahore is a city of 13 million, and is sprawling. Thankfully, rickshaw…
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