Tag: travel
group name: historylovers
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April 16, 2006 09:25 PM EDT --
Amira asks some darn good questions.
Full disclosure, they are all about Kyrgyzstan, you know, that mountain country high in the Tien Shan I visited three summers ago?
Now, Barthold mentions the Kyrgyz . . .
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November 12, 2006 10:30 AM EST --
We left Yazd early in the morning for our date with the Dasht-i-Kavir. We made good time; stopping only once for a picnic in the middle of some salt flats 300 kilometers outside Yazd. Bread, feta cheese, . . .
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November 10, 2006 09:51 AM EST --
The Islamic world is filled with magnificent cities. Samarkand, Bukhara, Damascus, Cairo, Istanbul and Mecca are all at the top of any top ten list, but Isfahan is in a class of its own. A city where the . . .
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May 30, 2006 11:21 PM EDT --
My latest China video-blog can be viewed here.
Enjoy.
Previous video here.
And you can see my China photos here.
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May 17, 2006 03:54 AM EDT --
My video casting can be found here.
More videos of China can be found here.
We got a reasonable start on the day by finishing breakfast by 830. We lingered around the hotel for another hour, settling . . .
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September 07, 2006 08:56 PM EDT --
I find myself with a dilemma, albeit a fortunate one. I am traveling to Iran to further research on a book and to accrue more personal experience with the people of the old Inner Asian trade routes. That . . .
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January 05, 2009 07:06 AM EST --
As I await my return to Malaysia tomorrow I've spent some time pondering the differences between Sumatra in particular and Indonesia in general versus the rest of South-East Asia. Indonesia is . . .
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December 10, 2006 03:58 PM EST --
Here are a few photos from Monte Alban, the ancient Zapotec capitol that sits atop a flat topped mountain overlooking Oaxaca. The site is impressive itself, and so is the view. I hope to have a video soon. . . .
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August 21, 2006 10:46 AM EDT --
Ascherson in his book Black Sea mentions that the European portion of the Inner Eurasian trade routes, at least by the evidence he has presented, and those from High Medieval Europe who traveled it like . . .
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October 22, 2006 03:49 AM EDT --
Here is a very good article by Kevin Tillman, brother of the late Pat Tillman, a true hero. Pat was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan, and Kevin has some interesting thoughts on the War on Terror. . . .
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May 17, 2006 03:23 AM EDT --
Video Blogging Can be Found Here.
My father and I are currently in Guangxi Province, the city of Yangshou, Garden of the Earth as the Chinese poets call it. Magnificent. It's my father's favorite . . .
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November 10, 2006 09:50 AM EST --
Tradition has it that Isfahan's Friday mosque sits on what was once a Zoroastrian Fire Temple. Now, I have been inside mosques that used to be Fire Temples, most notably the Maggak-i-Attari in Bukhara . . .
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November 10, 2006 12:09 PM EST --
As I mentioned in a previous post, there just wasn't much to see in Shiraz, aside from Persepolis, which lays a 120km outside the city. I was no doubt happy to leave, but more so, happy to be heading . . .
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September 19, 2006 12:00 PM EDT --
So, I've been hunting around for some time trying to find the source of this mysterious Byzantine Ambassador to the Empire of the Turks, one Zemarchos, that Grousset mentioned in his "Empire . . .
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August 25, 2006 08:58 AM EDT --
I just finished Paul Kriwaczek's short travel-history book "In Search of Zarathustra" and for those of you out there who are, like me, not particularly religious, but curious as to the origins . . .
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November 24, 2008 01:51 AM EST --
PLEASE COMMENT, VOTE AND SEND THIS TO FRIENDS HERE AT GATHER. COMMENTS AND VOTES EQUAL CASH FOR ME AND CASH KEEPS ME ON THE ROAD AND KEEPS THESE POSTS COMING.
I've had a few readers ask me . . .
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August 06, 2006 11:35 PM EDT --
Notes from my 2003 trip from Istanbul to Bombay, overland.
When I think of the Hagia Sophia I imagine her as she looked two hundred years after Justinian commissioned her. I imagine all the splendor thinkable . . .
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September 23, 2006 12:46 AM EDT --
A few years ago while searching for original sources of men who had made the entire journey across Eurasia I bought Cathay and the Way Thither by Sir Henry Yule. This is a wonderful collection of a few . . .
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October 11, 2006 02:08 PM EDT --
As C.J. Chivers writes in the Times, the Georgians believe that viniculture originated in their fair country between 7,000 and 8,000 years ago. There is some archaeological evidence to support this. Indeed, . . .
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November 11, 2006 07:21 PM EST --
Two primary impulses drove me towards Yazd. First, I wanted to see the architecture of this old Silk Road city, to walk in Marco Polo's footsteps and see what he saw. My second goal was to see, interact . . .
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