Before I ever saw it, the posters of Yacub Al Mansour's 1195 C.E. mosque in Morocco's capital Rabat intrigued me: 200 pillars of dus...
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Thursday, February 28, 2013
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
#865 Cancun, Mexico
It may be famous for American spring break visitors, and have more flights to the states and Canada than some places on the main continent s...
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Saturday, February 23, 2013
#866 Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany
www.99-things.com When I was a child, my parents took me to see Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria. I thought it was fantastic and pretty and ...
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Friday, February 22, 2013
#867 Taxila, Pakistan
Just out of the capital, Islamabad, past its twin city of Rawalpindi, lies one of Pakistan's ancient treasures: Taxila or Takshasila, bu...
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Thursday, February 21, 2013
#868 Mont St. Michel, France
www.wallpaperswide.com www.patheos.com http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Mont_st_michel_aerial.jpg When you have a large ro...
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Saturday, February 16, 2013
#869 Candy Cane Mountains, Azerbaijan
The descriptive name was coined by travel writer Mark Elliot because of the beautiful stripey colors, but there isn't really anything th...
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Friday, February 15, 2013
#870 Shahara, Yemen
At the top of Jebel Shahara in Northern Yemen, a bumpy military escorted pickup truck ride up an ancient cobble-stoned road, lies an old vil...
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