El Salvador: Mayan Ruins and Scenic Landscapes
A visit to El Salvador’s finest hotel, Decameron Salinitas, and visiting Mayan sites and Santa Ana.
A visit to El Salvador’s finest hotel, Decameron Salinitas, and visiting Mayan sites and Santa Ana.
Dominican Republic: A visit to Puerto Plata, with a side trip to Santiago and Jarabacoa where there are water parks, inexpensive hotels, and nice beaches.
In Ugarit, Syria, historian/travel writer Habeeb Saloum explores the ancient city where a tablet was discovered that revealed the world’s first alphabet.
A three-generation of Salooms visit western Canada Banff and enjoy viewing wildlife at Lake Louise, the Icefields Parkway, and the resort town of Jasper.
Fortress Louisbourg, a historically preserved fortress in Cape Breton, is a must-see for any Canadian history buffs, touring inside and dining in a tent inside.
A visit to the Valle de Viñales in Cuba which is an earthly paradise, for horseback riding and cigar rolling and pretty scenery. It’s called Shangri La of Cuba.
Oman: Here’s one author’s experience searching for an ancient mosque in the fairytale city of Nizwa, not finding it, but enjoying this pleasant historic city.
Butler County in southwestern Pennsylvania, has a buckwheat mill and lots of culinary hotspots to savor.
Saskatchewan’s Western Development Museum, a profile of a place where the past comes alive in Saskatoon.
Habeeb Salloum visits Maligne Canyon and Lake, a boat tour to the fabled Spirit Island.
Gibraltar: Seeing the apes and the rock on an English Island Between Spanish and African Worlds, a tiny British colony on a big rock with sea all around it.
Taino Cuba history. Visiting a sugar plantation, an alligator farm, and a recreation of an ancient TaÃno village, with Cuba’s original inhabitants.