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Some mountain towns shout their presence with skyscraping peaks and adrenaline-fuelled chaos. Megève doesn’t. It glides into your memory instead — like freshly groomed snow under early-morning skis, or the soft clink of coffee cups on a sunlit terrace with Mont Blanc hovering in the distance. Nestled in the Haute-Savoie, Megève feels less like a…

There are cities you walk through, and there are cities you look up to. For travelers like me, skyscrapers are not just feats of engineering — they are geographic statements of ambition, markers of moments when a city decided to announce itself to the world. From desert skylines to humid megacities, the world’s tallest buildings…

Christmas is often imagined as something fixed: the same table, the same lights, the same songs, year after year. But travel reveals another truth—Christmas is not a place, it’s a feeling, and that feeling wears many accents. In Vienna, Christmas smells like roasted chestnuts and mulled wine. Markets glow softly against imperial façades, violins echo…

There are cities you visit, and cities that quietly rearrange you. Beirut belongs firmly to the second category. At first glance, Beirut feels like a contradiction in motion. Palm-lined boulevards run parallel to bullet-scarred façades. Beach clubs pulse with music while, less than an hour away, the Mount Lebanon rise high enough to hold snow…

You will never see them on a postcard. There are no observation decks, no visitor centres, no Instagram viewpoints. And yet, coltan mines are among the most important places on Earth. Coltan—short for columbite–tantalite—is a mineral most of us have never heard of, but one we all carry. Inside your smartphone, laptop, camera, or noise-cancelling…

Beirut is a city of impossible contrasts. Few places in the world allow you to swim in the Mediterranean in the morning and stand among snow-covered mountains by the afternoon. Yet in Lebanon’s capital, this is not a metaphor—it is geography. Set between the sea and Mount Lebanon, Beirut has always been a crossroads. Phoenicians,…

A Quixotic Guide to the Balkanization of the United States Travel teaches you a dangerous lesson: borders are optional. They look immutable on atlases, defended by flags, anthems, and airport immigration desks. But cross enough frontiers and you start noticing the truth—most borders are simply frozen arguments from the past. Some thaw. Some crack. Some…

Not every great city was designed to rule. Some places were never meant to be capitals, power centres, or administrative hearts of nations. And yet, through geography, migration, trade, or sheer cultural gravity, they became icons — cities that define their countries far more than the official seat of government ever could. New York City…

Ask for the oldest city in Europe and you won’t get a single, uncontested answer—you’ll get a debate. And that’s precisely what makes it fascinating. Europe’s deepest urban roots stretch back far beyond modern borders, into a time when cities were not nations, but settlements clinging to rivers, hills, and trade routes. Among the strongest…

Some cities reach for the sky with glass and steel. Jeddah does it with water. On the shores of the Red Sea rises King Fahd’s Fountain, the highest fountain in the world, shooting a column of seawater up to 312 metres into the air. That is higher than the Eiffel Tower, taller than most skyscrapers,…