Oman is one of the most exciting places to visit in the Arabian peninsula and has a lot to offer, especially yummy food! Oman attracts millions of tourists each year, including 3.5 million loud tourists in 2019. Muscat’s charming capital city has been voted as one of the best cities […]
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Muscat is the capital city of Oman. Nowadays, Oman is becoming an increasingly popular destination all over the world. Muscat constitutes one of the most populated cities in this country. The Muscat Governorate’s total population was around 1.4 million in 2018, while the total area of this city spans up […]
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Memories of a train trip through India A few weeks ago, talking about solo travel on Twitter, I virtually met a great traveler, Roberto, and I immediately thought I should suggest him an interview. Roberto has always traveled and as I like: solo and using only public transport, which since […]
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Islam has always interested me, the religion, and the culture and traditions of the people of this faith and consequently their art, architecture, and most recently, music. An interest born with novels read as a little girl and naturally grown in my Parisian years with new Syrians, Iranians, and North […]
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As I mentioned before, telling you about Kakunodate, my travel itinerary in Japan followed as closely as possible the footsteps of the samurai. Inspired by the movies of Kurosawa and the many historical novels read during my teens, I absolutely wanted to see castles and neighborhoods inhabited by these postmodern warriors, […]
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Asia and especially Southeast Asia are home to smiles and hospitality. I have to admit that I never liked the idea of Asia, and I, therefore, didn’t consider it for years until reading Terzani’s “A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earth-bound Travels in the Far East, “a book that changed my way of seeing the world […]
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During my first trip to Thailand in 2009, the only one with my brother, I opted for this itinerary: Chiang Mai Chiang Rai Lampang Kanchanaburi Koh Samui Koh Lanta Chiang Mai, however, is the Thailand that I fell in love with and where I keep going back… Getting to Chiang Mai […]
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Kakunodate, the organization of my trip to Japan started with this amazing samurai town. When I decided that this winter travel was going to be a long road trip through Japan, I immediately thought of the country I had in mind since childhood, the one coming out of historical novels populated by […]
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I’ll start by saying that a single day would be enough to visit Hakodate, but I needed to slow down and relax, and this town in southern Hokkaido was the perfect spot at the perfect moment. It’s a 3h30 train from Sapporo and is a port city with a treacherous shape… it looks like […]
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What’s an onsen A Japanese onsen is a thermal spring. Due to the exceptional volcanic activity in Japan, there are thousands of different origins. Each has different minerals and distinct healing properties, but all pleasantly warm and very frequented by the Japanese. In fact, you actually don’t go to an onsen for its healing […]
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My trip to Japan began in Sapporo, in Hokkaido, because I didn’t want to get swallowed up by excessive Tokyo on my arrival. I wanted to relax to adapt to Japan smoothly, and I, therefore, chose this large island in the north, snowy, almost uninhabited, and ultimately not that Japanese… Yeah, because Hokkaido is actually home to […]
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