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Traveling Eritrea, In the Ruins of Lost Empires

Squeezed between Ethiopia and Sudan, the African country of Eritrea is small and mysterious. A visitor finds it also a bit schizophrenic in its history and influences depending on which city you're in.

The joy of just walking in Thessaloniki

Overlooked by many visitors to Greece, Thessaloniki reveals its charm not through grand first impressions but through slow wandering. Among its concrete blocks lie layers of Greek, Byzantine, and Ottoman history, best discovered by simply walking its streets.

Surrealism In Tripoli, Lebanon

There is a city past the final olive grove on the highway north of Beirut. The road’s many twists and turns might have you believe that the city is not there at all, but it eventually emerges on the horizon when the highway gives way to the treasure that it has been keeping secret.

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Tripoli, Lebanon is a gritty, more authentic version of Lebanon’s glitzy capital, Beirut 90km to the south. Flanked by snow capped mountains inland, the city’s tree lined boulevards, mesmerising Mamluk architecture and bejewelled Ottoman buildings tell a story of a grand, illustrious past.

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