• Part 3: Konya and Sille

    Part 3: Konya and Sille

    Travel brings power and love back into your life. Rumi When I look back upon my…

  • Part 2: Ankara

    Part 2: Ankara

    Vladmir Putin, the Russian President and arguably one of the most powerful man in the world…

  • Part 1: Istanbul

    Part 1: Istanbul

    My first memory of Istanbul is standing in front of the ticket vending machine at the…

  • Casablanca: Neither here nor there

    Casablanca: Neither here nor there

    Casablanca is a city that, to me, always had an air of mystique around it even…

  • Exploring Tehran

    Exploring Tehran

    Rex is looking at me as I tie the laces of my boots. He has that…

  • A Quick Update

    A Quick Update

    I will not lie. For the past couple of months, I didn’t post anything here becasue..well…

  • Visiting the Ayatollah

    Visiting the Ayatollah

    It is early morning in the residential block near Eshraghi street, about a half an hour’s…

  • Iran and Iranians

    Iran and Iranians

    “Of all the places, of all the countries, of all the years of travel, it’s here…

  • Night out in Shinjuku

    Night out in Shinjuku

    The white plate costs 200 yen. Yellow, 180. Red, 250. I look around and see people…

  • A Bittersweet Goodbye to Africa

    A Bittersweet Goodbye to Africa

    By the time my bus reached Nairobi, light fever had kicked in. My head was spinning,…

  • Source of the Nile

    Source of the Nile

    When I first started reading about Uganda before the trip, I came to know that the…

  • Into the Wild

    Into the Wild

    “Beware of the tse tse flies. If they bite, you will get high fever, muscle aches…