Islamic Hotels and Travel Guide
Islamic Hotels and Travel Guide
Archive for January, 2009
January 31, 2009 at 5:33 pm · Filed under Dubai Travel Guide
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Arabs call Dubai the city of the 21st century. This is a city with skyscrapers in the midst of a vast desert. Petrodollars are reflected in its rapid urbanization. This is the modern face of the Middle East.
Some see it as a city created by combining Arab culture and European style; some view it as the Venice of the Middle East. Dubai is a modern and clean city. You would even think you were taking a stroll in a European or American city if there were no billboards in Arabic. The most luxurious SUVs in the world are on the streets of Dubai. Its residents drive different cars for day and night. Read the rest of this entry »
January 31, 2009 at 4:16 pm · Filed under Hotels in Ayd?n, Islamic Hotels in Turkey
Our resort that that has a wide area is designed to meet all kinds of needs of our guests and facilitate their holidays thanks to the variety and conformity of bed units. It displays a distinct understanding of holiday with its roads decorated with palm trees, many species of plants having the characteristics of Mediterranean climate, decoration pools and swimming pools that serve for all expectations within a specially designed landscape in combination with the sea and the sun of Didim. All kinds of foods prepared according to A la Carte cuisines selected from Turkish and World cuisines are served to our guests. Read the rest of this entry »
January 31, 2009 at 4:02 pm · Filed under Finland Travel Guide
You can reach Finland from Turkey via a three-and-a-half hour direct flight from ?stanbul. Finland is a country familiar to Turks, but is not in general well known. The nation lies between Sweden and Russia and is a neighbor of Norway. It is a clean and quiet nation.
Finland, which longs for the few sunny days it gets, has only a very brief summer. The winter days here seem as though they will never end. Conversely, during the summer months in Finland it sometimes seems like the sun never sets. Read the rest of this entry »
January 31, 2009 at 3:33 pm · Filed under Turkey Travel Guide
It was in Kastamonu in Central Anatolia that a curious piece of fashion legislation first entered the statute books.
These days when it comes to the argument over modernity the focus may be all on women and the headscarf, but once upon a time the tables were turned in the other direction, and it was what men wore on their heads that drew all the attention. Even in the 19th century the sultans found time to worry about what their male subjects were wearing, and it was the reformer Mahmut II (1803-39) who decreed that they should drop the turban in favor of the fez, the cylindrical, maroon-colored head covering that still graces many souvenir shops today. For the best part of a century the fez reigned unchallenged, but then Mustafa Kemal Atatürk took against it. Read the rest of this entry »