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Just home from three wonderful weeks in Libya - here are some of the sights that caught the eye on this camel's North African travels.
This time, as well as returning to Tripoli and the Sahara, our travels took us east to Cyrenaica - Libya's Jebel Akhdar, the Green Mountains, where the ruins of ancient Greek cities rival the splendors of Roman Leptis Magna in the west, tales of wartime heroism become real, and quiet homage is paid to Libya's greatest hero of modern times.
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|  | Ahlan Wa Sahlan! Welcome! Somewhere,
out beyond all ideas of right and wrong-doing
there is a field -
I'll meet you there.
Wise words from Rumi - ones that we all should carry in our hearts and minds as we travel. Wonderful as the sights and sounds and smells we encounter on our journeys are, it's the people we meet along the way that really matter.
Welcome to The House of TheWanderingCamel
Fellow travellers are always welcome here.
Join us for a while,
Listen to our tales,
Tell us of your own adventures
The Caravanserai is open.
(Can you work out where the people pictured here are from? They're all to be found somewhere on our travel pages)
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| | Updates and additions It's always great to revisit places you love, whether in reality or virtually. Going back almost always brings new discoveries and experiences to add to old pages, and then there are the pages we begin and get sidetracked from before we finish them - who hasn't got a tip that says "Under construction" or "Coming Soon"?
Recent additions and updates here include Croatia, Split, England and London.
June 2008 took us to Rome and Sicily followed by
Sarajevo in October - just a few days, but enough to fall in love with this city at the crossroads of East and West.
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| | So, just who are The Wandering Camels? We're a group of online friends with a shared love of travel - especially in the Middle East.
We thought it would be fun to share this page and our adventures. Some of the pages you'll find here are the work of just one of us - others such as Mexico and Paris are joint efforts.
Check out our individual profiles below and, please, feel free to drop a note to all or any one of us, one of us will get back to you
or, if you prefer, address your message to an individual by name
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| | Leyle Syria is what brought me to TheWanderingCamel's caravanserai in the first place, but there are so many fantastic places that I've visited - and would love to return to one day.
2008 was a busy year, starting off with England and Lisbon in February then New Zealand at Easter. England (again) and Italy followed in June and July, then it was back back to Europe in September, to England again, Russia (St Petersburg, Moscow and a gorgeous autumn trip around the historic cities of the Golden Ring), Bosnia and Hercegovina for a few days in Sarajevo before a return to our favourite holiday spot - the gorgeous Croatian island of Brac.
Just a few days now and it will be 2009. Plans are well underway for a return to Libya in March. May and June are still up in the air - will it be Portugal for the VT meet or Amsterdam for a conference? Either way, we're going back to Croatia for a spell of early summer sunshine by the Adriatic. A long-promised return to Uzbekistan in October for a group of friends will round the year off nicely.
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| | Meet Megypt =
Hi everyone,
I am Megypt, and my area of interest is the exotic Middle East. The very crossroads of civilization, this region is a never ending supply of history and culture.
Megypt's tips on Egypt and Cairo include lots of really practical hints from someone who has lived there - check them out.
NEW! Give us a shout in our new SHOUT BOX (click here)
No registration is required, just type away. Someone is usually around, but we are new at this so be patient :D
This shoutbox is connected to a fun, offsite travel forum made by one of the Wandering Camel. It is not affiliated with any company or anything like that....it is made up of fellow wanderers who swap stories and have long experience in giving travel advice.
If you want to get to the forum itself, then just click HERE.
You are always welcome in the home of the Wandering Camel.
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| | Next is Lulu Lulu's rather shy (this is a note from Leyle)- but she does know Jordan
very well indeed. The wonders of Petra, Wadi Rum's stark beauty, the ins and outs of Jordan's capital, Amman, are just some of the places you'll find on her pages, and her knowledge of them is that of a true insider.
Cornwall and Paris are also places she knows well and you'll find she has lots of local knowledge to impart.
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| | .. and Khadi Hi there, I am Khadi... I am not so good with introductions so I'll move on to something more interesting. Egypt! ...Visit the Egypt page, check out the tips and get to watch the Pyramids LIVE!
EGYPT!
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willy_wonka Fri Jul 3, 2009 10:49 UTC
we're on like donkey kong! see you tomorrow x | Opondili01 Mon Jun 29, 2009 06:50 UTC
Hi Leyle dear. Let me know when you want to come to Namibia.will share more tips with you. Grace | angiebabe Sun Jun 28, 2009 08:45 UTC
Hi no not off to South Africa just yet but did have a great time in Burundi this April and a short stopover in Ethiopia on the way back - Id like to return there first I think. | pchamlis Sat Jun 27, 2009 15:32 UTC
Leyle dear, thank you so very much for your kind birthday greetings. I had a very nice day. (new family photo on my homepage) How are things in your world? |
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