We drove to the Wadi Rum Protected Area (included in Jordan Pass) to the village of Rum, where the paved road ends. And, like in other destinations in Jordan, forget what is written in the books; most establishments also went bankrupt due to COVID-19. So, some private drivers of old pick...
Our first stop on the busy sightseeing day was the Hejaz Railway, which once ferried pilgrims from Damascus in Syria to Amman and then to Medina in Saudi Arabia. Still, only the breeze rolls through this historic old station at present. There’s a small on-site museum (🎟️ free), and...
The beginning of the twentieth century witnessed the construction of an important project in the Islamic culture, which shortened the journey of pilgrims from the Levant, Northern Iraq, Egypt, and Anatolia from 45 days to 5 days, bringing that time up to 300,000 pilgrims in a year. For...
Traditionally known in Greece as ”Odontotos,” which means ”the one with the teeth,” a technological marvel at the time of its inauguration in 1896, is the rack railway connecting the small seaside town of Diakopto in the northern Peloponnese, with Kalavryta, a mountain village with a rich...
We made a short stop at the Mæl Station – a part of the Rjukan Railway. This terminus railroad station is located at Lake Tinn in Telemark. The Rjukan Railway was built by Norsk Hydro (the largest industrial concern in Norway) and opened in 1909 (and electrified in 1911). It’s a...