Middle East Travel Info

Travel information about the Middle East. Information about tours, tourism and sightseeing of the Middle East. Best places to visit in the Middle East

Jordan Petra Kingdom of Jordan - the state, much of which is covered with desert. But it was not always. Two millennia ago there were gardens in and green fields even in the south of the country. It is not know, what made the ancient Arabic tribe of nomadic Nabataeans in the IV century BC return to the sedentary life. They formed the Nabataeans State on the lands of South Palestine and Northern Arabia, which many historians consider the most advanced civilization of that time. Nabataeans created majestic temples, but the most important thing Read more >>>

Fez Medina. Morocco Fez today is a big modern city in Morocco, where lives more than half a million people. But one can, having abandoned cars, wide streets and tall buildings of the XX century, penetrate to the medieval city of Medina - a city where Mohammed fled, when he was in danger in Mecca. Since then the old quarters of any Muslim city are called so.  Read more >>>

Tunisia - Amphitheatre in El-Djem Endless stretches flat waterless plateau, covered with a row of olive trees, esparto, which resembles feather grass from a distance. The hot wind blows, surging whirls of thorny sand. In Sahel, the Tunisian steppe there opens a world miracle. In ancient Tidre, now it is a small Arab town of El-Djem, there is kept a grand amphitheater, which is a bit smaller than Coliseum in Rome. Actually, it is called the world's second largest Coliseum.  Read more >>>

Kings Valley. Egypt Valley of the Kings is a fairly large area surrounded with mountains and it is one of the greatest places on earth, because there were found numerous tombs of the rulers of ancient Egypt. In contrast to the pharaohs of the Old Kingdom, whose capital was Memphis, the Theban pharaohs of the New Kingdom era did not build the pyramids. Tombs were carved in the rocks, concealed from the view of outsiders as carefully as possible. The entrances to the tomb were filled up with large stones, bricked. But this did not keep tombs from the devastation. All the tombs were built on a similar plan: inclined corridor extending up to 200 meters, sloping Read more >>>

Temple in Luxor. Egypt In Luxor (Egypt) - a small town, 650 km to the south of Cairo, still hovers a spirit of the majestic past of the country. It is here where once was a grand capital of the ancient Egyptian state, which the ancient Egyptians called Uaset, Greeks - Thebes, and the Arabs - Al Uksur - "palaces". The ancient Thebes citizens often called their homeland in the texts just Niut or "City". History of Thebes goes into the darkness of centuries: the first mention of the city preserved in texts dating from the III millennium BC. However, the luxuriant growth of the city was preceded by a long history. Read more >>>

Sightseeing of Istanbul The location of the city is unique. It is located in Europe and in Asia - the Bosphorus strait divides the city into European and Asian sides. Having crossed the bridge over the strait, one can make a trip to another continent. On the place of today's Istanbul the colonies existed in the VII century BC, however, to appreciate the unique geographical position of the city could only Constantine the Great in 326 AD, when he chose the cape Read more >>>

Karnak Temples in Egypt The building in the largest temple ensemble of Egypt had continued for almost 2000 years. City Uaset, which in the Bible is called No (Ezekiel 30:14-16, Jeremiah 46:25), the Greeks called Thebes. Thebes was located near the present Luxor on the east bank of the Nile, and its prosperity experienced during the New Kingdom by the XVIII dynasty, when it was the capital of Egypt. After the destruction of the city by the Assyrians, led by Ashshurbanipal in 663 BC, there remained not so much of it. Read more >>>