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# 380: Exploring the MV Maa Khudi’s wreck
Idea # 380 – Exploring the MV Khudi Maa’s wrek Situated near the village of Machchafushi, in the south east of South Ari Atoll, this is the wreck of a bulk cargo ship some
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# 139: Visiting the Moken, gypsies of the sea
Idea # 139 – See a Moken village in the Surin archipelago, Thailand The Moken are a nomadic people of maritime Southeast Asia, present on Surin Islands in Thailand, and Burma. They emigrated from
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#387 : Visiting the old convents and churches of Goa
Idea #387 – Visiting the old churches and convents of Goa Goa, the former capital of Portuguese India, holds exceptional set of convents and churches, contemporaries of the colonial and evangelizing presence. Let us
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#632 : Visiting the largest Central Asian madrasa in Khiva
Idea #632 – Visiting the largest Central Asian madrasa in Khiva The madrasah Mohammed Amin Khan is an ancient madrassa (madrassah) located in the fortified district of Ichan Kala in Khiva. It was built
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#361: Diving with the whitetip reef shark
Idea #361 – Diving with the whitetip reef shark Shark-coral or whitetip reef shark with points (Triaenodon obesus) must not be confused with whitetip shark of reef (Carcharhinus albimarginatus) or with the longimane shark
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#579 : Following the path of the Pilgrims from the High-Place of the Sacrifice to Petra’s Treasury
Idea #579 – Following the path of the Pilgrims of the High-Place of the Sacrifice to Petra’s Treasury There are several “high-places” in Petra, which are open-air sacrificial sites, dominating the antique city. The
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#485 : Sleeping in the Khans’ Caravanserai of Sheki ont the Road Silke in Azerbaijan
Idea #485 – Sleeping in the Khans’ Caravanserai of Sheki ont the Silke Route in Azerbaijan Sheki (also Seki or Shaki) is a historic city of Azerbaijan, in the woody piedmont of the Big Caucasus, situated on
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#606 : Exploring the Scythian Necropolis of Besshatyr in Kazakhstan
Idea #605 – Exploring the Scythian Necropolis of Besshatyr in Kazakhstan The Besshatyr necropolis is the main ethnographic and archaeological site of the Altyn Emel Nature Park. Besshatyr is a burial place of the
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# 184: Driving a 4×4 in the desert dunes
Idea # 184- Driving a 4×4 in the desert dunes of Oman The Wahiba sands covers an area of 200 km from north to south and 80 km from east to west, inhabited
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#557 : Getting lost in the ruins of the Byzantine city of Umm er Rasas or Kastrom Mefa’
Idée #557 – Getting lost in the ruins of the Byzantine city of Umm er Rasas or Kastrom Mefa’ Situated in the southeast of Madaba in border of a semi-arid steppe, the archeological site
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#560 : Visiting Moses’s sanctuary of the Mount Nebo in Jordan
Idea #560 – Visiting Moses’s sanctuary of the Mount Nebo in Jordan The mount Nébo (in Hebrew the “hill”, the “tumulus”) is a 817 meter summit, situated in the West of current Jordan. In
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# 199: Going to the Temple of Heaven … between Earth and Heaven
Idea # 199: Visit the Imperial Temple of Heaven in Beijing The origin of the Temple of Heaven is in former China. Initially called Monument of the Sky and the Earth, it was built
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#482 : Observing the mud volcanoes of Gobustan in Azerbaijan
Idea #482 – Observing the mud volcanoes of Gobustan in Azerbaijan The reserve of Gobustan, at approximately 65 km in the southwest of Baku, was based in 1966 to protect the rock art of the region
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# 155: Diving with Rays in Oman
Idea # 155 – Diving with negra rays and stingrays in Oman The islands of Daymaniat are considered as the best diving spots of Oman. During your dives, you will discover that the deep
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#516 – Visiting the troglodytic city of Vardzia in Georgia
Idea #516 – Visiting the historic city of Vardzia in Georgia Vardzia is a troglodytic archeological site, situated in the South of Georgia, on the Mountain Erusheti in the left bank of the river
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