Experiential travel

The mistakes I made when I traveled to Afghanistan

Traveling to Afghanistan is hard, but living there is much harder. It's a daily struggle for the locals who grow up there and are more used ...

"Khosh amadid be Afghanistan, welcome to Afghanistan", a smiling and polite immigration officer at Kabul airport waved me in beyond the ...

A few days ago I received a message from a reader of my Italian blog asking me where she could see the "real Iran". I asked her what she ...

In Rome shops displaying the latest fashion trends, the smell of fresh bread and ragù and loud car horns make clear to tourists that they ...

For years Italy has been one of the most popular travel destinations for tourists from the world over. Culture, beauty, food, history, this ...

Despite hearing about the explosion in Parwan Province the day before, our minds were set to travel to the Panjshir Valley. To get to the ...

There is a place in Iran that, in my opinion, is not capturing the attention it should. Nestled in the very heart of Persia's segment of the ...

As anticipated in one of the previous posts, Hamed agreed to share some of his knowledge and insights about his own country, Afghanistan, ...

If there was one way to describe Catania, it wouldn't be too far from sensory overloaded. Coming from Agrigento, I considered myself already ...

It was only a coincidence that we happened in Agrigento minutes before the parade for the saint patron Calogero started, but even if we ...