Amir Palace Hotel

... to bed at 12 midnight the night before, so you do the math.   Nonetheless, we planned on making it to Buckingham Palace and then to see the Westminster Abbey.  We walked to Buckingham from our place (approximately 2.5 miles) and took a few ...

... pleasant but equally strange Japanese-Korean sushi bar before having an early night in our gloomy and miserable Russian built Tashkent Palace Hotel. It may have been advertised as being in a great location but that was the only positive attribute we ...

On arrive en fin d apres midi a Esfahan ou l on trouve pension a l Amir Kabir Hotel situe pres de l imam square, joyaux d Esfahan. En debut de soiree, on part vers le square qui est plutot bien rempli: les gens viennent profiter de la fraicheur du soir et ...

... take about 2 hours. We started from the hotel and visited the roads alongside the Doha fort, National Area, Souks, Amir's Palace, the Cournice, The new Business districts, The Dow Harber, Golf Course, Qatar University and than we ...

Just an opportunity to post more pics. This town is 30km from the border, nothing special. You'll be glad to know, we have booked into a nice hotel tonight, at Petra's order. Tomorrow Libya!!! ...

... here we crossed the square to the Ali Qapu palace, which sits directly opposite the Sheikh Lotfollah mosque. This multi storey palace has a massive balcony overlooking the square, from which the shah used to watch the polo matches played in the square. ...

... square is quite large (supposedly the 3rd largest in the world after the Red and Tiananmen squares), bounded on 2 sides by mosques, a palace on another and an arched entrance into a bazaar on the 4th. There are stone pedestals at either end, which were ...

... the end, and the other two almost facing each other on the sides – Imam Mosque, Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque and Ali Qapu Palace, respectively. After a few strolls round and lots of photos, I sat down near the pool and was approached by a very friendly ...

... , so not as bad as we thought! I'm going to get things sorted tonight hopefully!! We've also been to see the Grand Palace (before New Years but we forgot to tell you all!) It's stunning - there's just gold absolutely everywhere, amazing attention to ...

... new country. The Azerbaijan border crossing formalities over with drove up into the mountains to Sheki. A pretty little village with a Palace that was the ruling Shah’s . Khans Cinari Palace is a small double story place with very intricately ...

... shop. The owner looked sad. But we found worse. Oh yes we did. After a delicious dinner in the hotel we wandered over The Strip into Caesar’s Palace. Matt Goss was advertised as “Britain’s answer to Frank Sinatra” – I barely ...

... do so here.   The sights of Tehran can be covered in a day. There is the decidedly unimpressive Golestan Palace (a former shah's city residence) becoming more decrepit by the day. There is a bazaar devoid of the character of ...

... . It was about 2 hours south of Samarkand, and a very fertile area. We met our guide, and went straight to the 'White palace' or 'Aka-Saray' which was Timur's palace that was meant for entertaining guests. The restorations were in process, and im quite ...

... the most breathtaking entrances that I could have imagined. The drive was lined in guards who looked like they belonged in a royal palace from the past and beautiful white pillars holding flames. Stepping from our rickshaw, we felt quite out of place, but ...

... 1 guest and no reservation for the day), I hired a taxi for 3 hours, visiting the sites in the surrounding areas: Emir's Palace, Bakhautdin Naqshband Mausoleum and Chor-Bakr (a 16th century necropolis, or, town of mausoleums). With the help of my friend, ...

... building so missing the wonderful view. Our local colleague, Amar came to visit us and took us to launch. Then we returned to hotel. We also had dinner with Amar (This guy is wonderful) who took us to the Grill district of Algiers . Amar told ...

... pizza nearby (woohoo aplace that knows how to make a pizza -not like india). After went for a wander up to the presidents palace and surrounding area. Huge wide areas full of impressive fountains and huge buildings. Most of this is all new. Tashkent has ...