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Category: Asia

Jordan’s Wadi Rum is like visiting Mars without being the billionaire CEO of a rocket company.
Asiatravel

Jordan’s Wadi Rum is like visiting Mars without being the billionaire CEO of a rocket company.

11/12/202205/31/2023 Posted byPeter Crosby

Why visit the Red Planet when you can experience all its inhospitality and desolation right here on Earth?

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Israel’s Masada would make an amazing Airbnb if its last occupants hadn’t trashed the place.
Asiatravel

Israel’s Masada would make an amazing Airbnb if its last occupants hadn’t trashed the place.

11/11/202205/25/2023 Posted byPeter Crosby

The Ancient Romans aren’t getting their security deposit back.

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Everything you were told about Bethlehem as a kid was a lie.
Asiatravel

Everything you were told about Bethlehem as a kid was a lie.

11/10/202205/25/2023 Posted byPeter Crosby

Bethlehem is nothing like the place they told you about in the Bible.

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Jerusalem may be popular with Christians, but Jesus probably hated the godforsaken place.
Asiatravel

Jerusalem may be popular with Christians, but Jesus probably hated the godforsaken place.

11/09/202205/25/2023 Posted byPeter Crosby

People have been returning to Jerusalem for almost 2,000 years, but why would Jesus ever go back?

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The Holy Land inspired three bestselling books that have more devoted fans than Harry Potter.
Asiatravel

The Holy Land inspired three bestselling books that have more devoted fans than Harry Potter.

11/08/202205/25/2023 Posted byPeter Crosby

Visit the only place that’s a more popular backdrop for blockbuster books than Hogwarts.

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The visions people had in Jaffa were inspired by either religious fervor or a ton of opiates.
Asiatravel

The visions people had in Jaffa were inspired by either religious fervor or a ton of opiates.

11/07/202205/25/2023 Posted byPeter Crosby

St. Peter had a vision in Jaffa that changed Christianity forever. Or was he just high?

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Tel Aviv is located in the Holy Land yet, weirdly, it’s never once mentioned in the Bible.
Asiatravel

Tel Aviv is located in the Holy Land yet, weirdly, it’s never once mentioned in the Bible.

11/07/202205/25/2023 Posted byPeter Crosby

Find out why ancient religious authors entirely passed on writing about Tel Aviv, Israel.

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Kyoto Japan is so well-preserved, it doesn’t look a day over a thousand.
Asiatravel

Kyoto Japan is so well-preserved, it doesn’t look a day over a thousand.

10/23/201811/30/2022 Posted byPeter Crosby

If you like temples, tea gardens, and time-travel, you’ll love Kyoto, Japan.

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Tokyo Japan is irrefutable proof that the Japanese hate suburbs.
Asiatravel

Tokyo Japan is irrefutable proof that the Japanese hate suburbs.

10/10/201811/30/2022 Posted byPeter Crosby

If you’re headed to Tokyo, Japan, you’ll need help surviving in the world’s most monster-prone battleground.

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  • Cusco Peru: Not everyone who lives in the Andes Mountains crashed their airplane.
    06/05/2012
  • Munich Germany is home to high-tech business and even higher-octane beer.
    05/23/2014
  • Israel’s Masada would make an amazing Airbnb if its last occupants hadn’t trashed the place.
    11/11/2022
  • New Orleans, Louisiana: Hey, who got their Europe in our America?
    08/31/2007
  • Morocco’s Atlas Mountains aren’t the world’s tallest, but at least they’re not more @#$%ing desert.
    03/14/2020
  • Egypt Africa: The world’s most ancient civilization (and it has the dust to prove it).
    12/23/2010

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