Tag: Silk Road
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BRASOV – ROMANIA
6/12/24 – 8/12/24 There are a few trains that run between Hungary and Romania, but most are operated by Romanian Railways. The Corona, a Hungarian Railways sleeper train, plies the route between Budapest and Brasov, taking a somewhat circuitous route in order to serve Hungarian-speaking locales in northern Romania. I’d chosen the Corona deliberately –…
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BUDAPEST – HUNGARY
3/12/24 – 5/12/24 After a quick change of trains in Miskolc, on the Hungarian border, we were on our way to Budapest. The last time I visited the Hungarian capital was almost 20 years ago, as a young child, and so I had but a few short memories of the place to go off. We…
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ISTANBUL – TÜRKIYE (#3)
14/11/24 – 15/11/24 Unlike my experience last year, flying to Istanbul via KL, this particular journey went off without a hitch! We landed in Istanbul not long after 4pm (with my Dad in tow for another trip together!), and took the Havaist bus into the city. It was only going to be a short visit…
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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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NEW DELHI – INDIA
20/3/24 – 24/3/24 After a very enjoyable overnight stop in KL, I was off to the airport again – this time for my flight up to New Delhi. I’d been warned beforehand about the chaos of Delhi, but even that left me unprepared as I headed out of the Arrivals hall at Indira Gandhi airport…
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