Tag: islam

Well, after a real early morning flight yesterday, I finally made it "officially" to KL, Malaysia. It was another one lf those cities I should have visited earlier. I…

Halal red curry at Banana Leaf - Saigon Banana Leaf Restaurant is a new halal restaurant in Saigon's District 3 (57 Vo Van Tan, District 3). The red curry dish was very…

This is the well known Antalya Minaret which is the local symbol for Antalya, Turkey.

Osh has a large population of devout Uzbek Muslims. I have no qualms telling people that Osh is one of my favorite cities in the world. It has this feeling that draws…

The Suleyman Cami in Alanya, Turkey, is one of the oldest mosques in Turkey built by Seljuk Turks. Suleyman Cami - Alanya, Turkey

I took this photo in the Summer of 2002 just a short distance from my favorite Turkish mosque, the Fatih Cami. I passed these shops everyday heading to TEGV, where I…

When I first visited Istanbul, Turkey, in December, 1999, the first place I wanted to see was the Aya Sofia. My hotel was in the Fatih district but I was able to catch a…

A surprise trip during the Vietnamese New Year (Tet) in 2007. Originally a friend and I wanted to visit Nui Ba Den in Tay Ninh but due to a mispronunciation, we found…

I found this image of the completed Karatau Mosque today at Picasa: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/5bp5zl2bu5rpC3QBTKQ99A

When I lived in Karatau, Kazakhstan, as a Peace Corps Volunteer, there were two mosques in the town. With Saudi funding, the townspeople started to build a new mosque to…

Karakol, Kyrgyzstan, was located at the far end of the famous Lake Issyk Kul. A large community of Dungans, Chinese Muslims, resided in Karakol. I remember the Dungans…

During my trip to Naryn with ACCELS, I had an opportunity to visit the local mosque. Three of the Kyrgyz boys below gave me a tour of the mosque including going up the…