
At first, Dubai appears like a vast expanse of desert broken only by huge hills. A second later you scramble to readjust your vision, as a glass and steel metropolis unfolds itself like a shimmering mirage in the Arabian Desert...

Exotic, old-world and so out of this world, Umm Al Quwain feels like a whole new emirate totally disconnected from the swanky Dubai or Abu Dhabi.

City of the Dead Cairo is as strange as it gets! It is actually a cemetery - with densely packed tombs and mausoleum structure among which people have set up houses and tea-shops, no less

Travel on the Toy Train to Shimla for a whole different experience. There are times you think you can compete with the train and win.

It was not surprising that the Killing Fields in Phnom Penh didn’t attract eager visitors - Choeung Ek Genocidal Centre (famous as Killing Fields), a grim tourist attraction, is a lesson in Cambodia's turbulent history.