Alexander The Great Hotel

... of the ancient city of Persepolis (Takht-e Jamshid). Nearly 2,600 years old, the city was almost completely destroyed by Alexander the Great just over 100 years after it was built. Persepolis is one of the most important historical sites in Iran · ...

... many other words we associate with ancient Egypt are not Egyptian words but Greek ones, dating from the Hellenistic period when Alexander the Great invaded Egypt and ruled for three centuries.  A lot of the ancient Egyptian words were lost, until the ...

... *groan* - to Cairo and a subsequent 3 and a 1/2 hour train, we finally arrived in Egypt's second largest city, the one Alexander the Great founded in 332 BC - Alexandria.  We didn't do much in Alexandria: walked along the coast, visited the library of ...

... was at the Odessa Falls for lunch. Birthplace of Alexander the Great: Roman amphitheater: . . . . . .. THESSALONIKI: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MELNIK: . . . . . . . . . . . . . BANSKO: Our hotel in Bansko: . . . . . . ...

... stopped for lunch at Lower Sabie rest camp, where I bought both boys buffalo-leather bush hats.  We told Alexander he looked like Indiana Jones.  Little did we suspect the life-threatening real-world adventure that was in my youngest ...

... tunnel, we knew it was time to call it a day. Day Two: we took a day-trip to Alexandria, once center of Alexander the Great's Empire after he had conquered Egypt in 333BC. Riches of the world once sat here, including the Pharos Lighthouse, one of the ...

... start, and we're off to Alexandria, the great city of Northern Egypt on the Mediterranean Sea, which was founded by Alexander the Great, a Macedonian ruler who was the first and last foreign king to be titled Pharaoh. This was a real treat because we had ...

I got up REALLY early as there was a 1700 historic farmers market happening at Alexander Keith's Brewery and it started at 7am.  haha, no, I wasn't there that early!  It was good to head downtown early cause there was less traffic and found a ...

... off that we'd left back up in our original carriage. Well, they were still there :) Short walk to the hotel - Alexander Thomson Hotel (rmghotels.com/) - in Argyle St.  The receptionist could have done with some customer service training. Hotel room ...

... generally use a higher end hotel for their guests.  Globus was also stationed in our hotel in Ljubljana, which was also a great hotel.  One thing I immediately noticed was that it had another bidet.  Fortunately, it was right next to the ...

... built and filled with tony shops and highrise condominiums, and the people were dressed way smarter than I was. I found a great hotel across the street from The American University of Beirut in Hamra, which overlooked the Mediterranean coastline. After ...

... as a memorial to his father Alexander II who was killed by a grenade thrown by an anarchist. (The grenade that killed Alexander II was actually the second grenade thrown. The first hit his carriage, but Alexander II walked away unharmed. As Alexander ...

... . "You know about Alexander the Great and the Nut." "Nope, and I don't know why there is so much historical importance about Alexander the great cutting up a nut." Then we discuss the size of the "nut" and how it was cut. I'm just going along with this ...

... Teke horses of Turkmenistan are revered by the Turkmen people. Indeed, it is said that these horses were prized by Alexander the Great, Roman Emperors and even Genghis Khan on their brutal raids through the country. An incredibly hardy animal, they ...

... Alexander had been killed fighting in what is now the Balkans, decided to break away from Makedonian hegemony.  Alexander, characteristically, was momentarily on their doorstep with an army to suggest they change their minds.  After days of ...

... by Alexander the Great in 332BC and ended in 395 AD. Interestingly, the Hellenistic rulers following Alexander the Great (the Ptolemies) maintained continuity with pharaonic traditions, including architectural styles, such that temples from this ...

... -night stay in Rome before our flight – don’t know why we didn’t think of this earlier!  Of course, our Hotel Alexander was totally booked for tonight, so we had to switch to a different hotel – Hotel Sole, just down the ...

... is, in fact, in Greece doing some research for an historical fiction she wants to write that's set during the time of Alexander the Great.  So a lot of what she wants to see is very focused: what did this location look like in the time of ...

... be due to the myrrh that leaks from them and has for 100's of years. Tomb of Philip II (369 BCE) - father of Alexander the Great - Vergina, Greece and much more...the city is easily seen and experienced by walking. As I walked the city and saw the ruins ...

... Olympus, which is always shrouded in cloud. Near the mountain was the sacred city of Dion, where Makedonian kings, including Alexander, came for festivities and sacrifices.  They paid special attention to Zeus, who as the father of Herakles was ...

... I got a good discount and ended up paying 25 EUR for a hotel room instead of a bed in a dorm. Great deal! After getting some rest, I went to Alexander Platz walking by Karl-Marx-Alle, one of the main streets of former East Berlin and one of the ...