Seeing the Architecturally Significant Cairo Citadel
With 23 million inhabitants, Cairo is the largest city in Africa and also the largest city in the Arab world. It is chaos on a scale few places achieve. But…
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Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque
We have three days in Oman. Day one we planned to tour the city itself as there are a few things to see here before we ventured out to the…
Sheikh Zayed (Grand) Mosque
The largest mosque in the Emirates, it can hold 40,000 worshippers and it cost over $500 million to build. It rises up out of the desert just outside the main…
Blue Mosque
Unlike the other key sites in Istanbul, the Blue Mosque is an actual functioning mosque where worshippers show up to pray five times a day. As a result, non-believers may…