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Islamic Hotels and Travel Guide

Islamic Hotels and Travel Guide

Archive for March, 2009

NEW WORLD CITY HOTEL

newworldlodgeWelcome to New World City Hotel, the hotel for both business and leisure travelers. The hotel is situated in the historic area of the city. It is just a short distance to Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaew Temple, and within a short walk of to the Banglumpu shopping area and popular Khao San Road.

Our friendly atmosphere is evident the moment you arrive. The friendly and courteous staff is always ready to greet you with a smile and Sawadee, Thai custom for a warm welcome. Situated in a quiet location, the New World City Hotel provide its guests with 172 modern, bright, well appointed en-suite bedrooms : 3 Suites, 54 Deluxe, and 115 Superior. All rooms have windows and balconies, private bathrooms with hot & cold showers, telephone with IDD, color TV with satellite, mini bar and refrigerator. Read the rest of this entry »

Turkey’s Finest: The Top 10 Smaller Museums

sakpsabancmuseum1There’s hardly a small town in Turkey that doesn’t have its own museum, and most of them follow a standard plan, with one section devoted to archeology, another to ethnography and a collection of miscellaneous bits and pieces outside in the grounds.

Unfortunately, many of these museums are tucked away in places where few visitors are likely to find them, while very few have adequate labeling in Turkish let alone in any other language. Leading the way to a brighter future are a handful of privately owned and run museums in ?stanbul and elsewhere, but there are also some state-run museums which, while not quite up to the standards of their five-star counterparts, are still worth going out of your way to find. Read the rest of this entry »

Nordkapp nie untergehenden Sonne

norway2OSLO - Es dauert drei Stunden und 10 Minuten, um in Oslo, der Hauptstadt von Norwegen, über einen direkten Flug aus der Türkei.

Mit Bergen, die fast ein Drittel der Landschaft, beherrscht die hohe Gelände Geographie Norwegen, ein skandinavisches Land im Norden Europas eine gemeinsame Grenze im Osten mit Schweden. Seine umfangreichen Küste - eine der längsten in der Welt auf 25.148 Kilometern - ist bekannt für seine berühmten Fjorde und robuste Eigenschaften. Read the rest of this entry »

Norway a northern star

norway2Nordkapp’s never setting sun
OSLO - It takes three hours and 10 minutes to arrive in Oslo, the capital of Norway, on a direct flight from Turkey.

With mountains comprising nearly one-third of its landscape, high terrain dominates the geography of Norway, a Scandinavian country in northern Europe sharing a border to the east with Sweden. Its extensive coastline — one of the longest in the world at 25,148 kilometers — is known for its famous fjords and rugged characteristics. Read the rest of this entry »

‘Vengoo’ places luxury and convenience at your fingertips

seychelTraveling is one of the most enjoyable things in the world for some people, but for others traveling alone is not enough and luxury and comfort are equally important.

Finding such a compromise is now easy for everyone through the Internet. Vengoo.com, a Web site for online hotel reservations, makes luxury and comfort accessible to everyone.

“We aimed to make a system that is reliable, has high quality and targets luxury and we wanted this to be as easy to reach and as fast as possible,” Vengoo vice president responsible for marketing and public relations Burak Y?ld?r?mta? told Today’s Zaman. Read the rest of this entry »

Turkey’s finest: the top 10 museums

museumsSometimes a visit to a Turkish museum can be a demoralizing experience. You step through the door to find a group of men drinking tea in the lobby, one of whom reluctantly gets up, unlocks the doors and turns on the lights.

If you’re lucky, he then sits back down again; if not, he’ll trail along behind you, making you feel more like an intruder than a valued visitor. But none of this is the case, of course, when it comes to the blockbuster museums, the real gems that it’s worth going out of your way to include on your itinerary. So with no further ado, these are our nominations for Turkey’s top 10 museums. Enjoy! Read the rest of this entry »

‘Spain’ The land of fiestas and soccer

spain2After a journey that lasted approximately four hours, we reached Spain from Turkey, landing in the Spanish capital, Madrid.

Like Turkey, Spain also lies on the Mediterranean, and the Iberian Peninsula has taken maximum advantage of the sea that surrounds it. Spanish ocean adventurers have crossed the world on water, arriving at the shores of continents from Africa to America. It was with the help and support of Spain’s Queen Isabella that Christopher Columbus arrived in America. And of course, the Spanish are also known for the colonial systems they set up in the far away lands to which they journeyed. Aside from Brazil, every country in South America speaks Spanish now. And in the US today, there are an estimated 30 million Spanish speakers. And then there are the Read the rest of this entry »