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A Tourist's Guide to Dhaka, Bangladesh 2019

A Tourist's Guide to Dhaka, Bangladesh 2019

After a nine-year gap, I fly into Dhaka, Bangladesh’s chaotic and colourful capital – I even stay in the same hotel: La Vinci Hotel. After checking in, I sample a can of Hunter’s Lager, with its suspiciously Foster’s like can design. The next morning, I head off outside to wander Kawran Bazaar, Dhaka’s largest wholesale […]

A Tourist's guide to Port-au-Prince, Haiti

A Tourist's guide to Port-au-Prince, Haiti

With some trepidation, I fly into the Haitian capital. My guide picks up me up and then whips me through some Port-au-Prince’s highlights. Sights include the Iron Market, the voodoo statues in the Hotel Oloffson, the earthquake damaged cathedral, Place Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Place du Marron (home to some great statues), the view of the colourful […]

A Tourist's Guide to Dili, East Timor/Timor Leste

A Tourist's Guide to Dili, East Timor/Timor Leste

How to spend 24-hours in Dili, capital of one of the newest countries in the world. After a short hop aboard Nam Air from Bali, I land in sleepy Dili. The Hotel Timor is a good base to explore the city on foot, where I see the Presidential Palace, the Santa Cruz Massacre Memorial, the […]

A Tourist's Guide to Surabaya, Indonesia

A Tourist's Guide to Surabaya, Indonesia

I fly into Indonesia’s second-largest city, Surabaya, over of the east coast of Java. After checking into the colonial-rich Hotel Majapahit, I set off to see the sights of the city, including a Snake-Crocodile Monument, an unusual Chinese mosque, Heroes Monument, the Al-Akbar Grand Mosque, Bamboo Monument, the Submarine monument and the spectacular Grahadi Building, […]

A Tourist's Guide to Baku, Azerbaijan 2018

A Tourist's Guide to Baku, Azerbaijan 2018

From Tbilisi we fly into Baku, located along the Caspian Sea. Staying the Fairmont ‘Flame’ Tower Hotel affords us an excellent view of the long sweeping city coastline. In the city, we see the giant flag, walk past the carpet museum, see the twists and turns of the old medieval walled town, which included the […]

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