Travel & Food & History
North Sentinel Island, nestled in the azure waters of the Bay of Bengal, is a place shrouded in mystery and intrigue. This remote island, part of the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago in the Indian Ocean, is home to one of the world’s most isolated indigenous communities, the Sentinelese. Their way of life, untouched by modern…
We are used to seeing ancient Roman and Greek cities in Turkey. However, did you know that there is a vast city built by the ancient Macedonians on a plain, surrounded by deep valleys in Western Turkey? Blaundos Ancient City Blaundos Ancient city is located 40 km away from the Western Turkish city of Uşak,…
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Burj Al Babas was a project aimed to create a thermal resort town to attract Arab investors. What’s left of it now is a ghost town of over 500 unfinished Disney castle-themed houses in central Turkey. I recently took a day trip to this place and had a very interesting day exploring the hundreds of…
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History enthusiasts will be familiar with the ill-fated 1845 Franklin Expedition. 129 British sailors, under the command of The Royal Navy, were sent for an expedition to explore the Northwest Passage which connects the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans in the Northern Canadian Archipelago. The two ships, HMS Terror and HMS Erebus, with the crew…
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