Africa’s Great Migration: Everything You Need To Know
If you who love nothing more than ticking off an ever-expanding list of bucket-list ventures… this is the travel experience for you!
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Middle East & North Africa
Shopping in Dubai
Since Dubai is the tourist mecca for the whole Arabic region, you can get the best bargain on all kinds of Arabian souvenirs. Typical souvenirs include copper coffeepots, metal food platters, carved wooden or leather stuffed camels, woollen camel bags and sheesha or glass water pipes.
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Whirling Devotion: Sufism in North Africa
Best known in the west as the whirling dervishes, Tasawouf, or Sufism, is the esoteric school of Islam founded on the pursuit of spiritual truth as the highest goal of attainment. The pupil works to achieve ma’arefat – understanding reality as it is – which is the understanding of the Divine.
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Shopaholic: Dubai Shopping Festival
Festival Essentials Where: Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Middle East When: Mid Jan – Mid Feb What’s it about: Shop til you drop
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Frankincense – The Perfume Of The Gods
Frankincense was once held in as high esteem and value as gold, everywhere from Rome to India. The very burning of frankincense was a symbol of wealth; at the Emperor Nero’s funeral his wife burned more of the stuff than the whole of Arabia’s annual production.
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