Destinations: Middle East Archives - Andrea's Next Venture

Planning a 30 Hour Stopover in Dubai

While Dubai wasn’t high on my list of options for a weeklong vacation, I found myself sucked in by Emirates’ marketing of the city as a…

Of all the places I planned to visit in 2019, Beirut was probably the destination that scared me the most. Scratch that – Beirut was absolutely…

At this stage of my travels I knew that I needed to bake in time to rest and excuse myself from any related guilt. If I pushed myself too hard, I…

Let me be straightforward: I despise the term “bucket list.” I end up using it a lot to describe my travels, but I don’t like…

My well-traveled friends advised me that I couldn’t go to Jordan and not visit Wadi Rum. A “wadi” is a valley, and Wadi Rum is the…

First of all, I have to give credit where credit is due. Although I had planned nearly every detail of our Israel/Jordan trip, I did not include a…

While my initial interest in visiting Israel stemmed from my desire to hang out at the beaches and bars in Tel Aviv, I couldn’t go to the…

Tel Aviv had been a destination on my radar for quite some time, so it was a must-do when planning my year of travel in 2019. I had never been to…