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Reza travels to the the province of Ilocos Norte in the northernmost part of the Philippines, an area not usually on the tourist routes.

Reza visits Istanbul and Antalya in Turkey, assesses the security measures in place and sees tourism on the increase.

Reza returns to Cuba to see how tourism is changing the country and what plans the government has for the next few years.

Reza visits Hangzhou in China, a city chosen to hold last years G20 summit.

As St Valentine’s day approaches, Reza, looks at Konya in Turkey – a city of love and a city of pilgrimage.

With the 67th Berlin International Festival about to start, Reza looks back at his visit to Berlin last year and compares with his first trip to Berlin 26 years ago.

Luxembourg is small but its rich heritage heart beats fast in these modern times.

Reza visits Gallipoli and tours the memorials and cemeteries of one of the most bloody conflicts of WWI.

Reza finds that, although Bern is a busy capital city, it manages to sustain a sense of calmness and projects a charm that you could only find by living in a village

Khuzestan saw some of the worst fighting when Saddam Hussein invaded Iran. Reza visits the war memorials which are increasingly becoming part of a tourist trail.

Reza visits Cuba for the second time and ponders whether Cuba will alter as more tourists visit the country.

Reza visits a hotel with a difference, one with its own nuclear bunker and a link with Carol the Jackel!

Reza visits the Czech city of Ostrava to see how an industrial landscape has become a tourist attraction and a cultural venue.

In just 72 hours, Reza takes a quick tour of Zurich.

Reza travels to Adana in Turkey and finds few tourists but plenty of things to see and do in a destination that links a city with countryside.

Reza re-visits Brussels after the terrorist activities and finds a city calm and going about its business despite the increased security.

Tunisia has undergone tragedies in the last few years but when visitors return to the resorts of Hammamet and Sousse, they should take time out to visit Tunis and Sidi Bou Said and then they will understand how this modern state is one layered with history.

Iranians celebrate the Persian New Year (Nowruz) to mark the beginning of spring. This usually occurs on 20th or 21st March,

Reza visits the Biennale, no- not the one in Venice but the one in Marrakesh which, this year, explores how art is used as a means for cultural resistance.

Reza follows up his previous story on Malta by leaving Sliema and seeing more of the island.

Bari, the capital of Puglia, had been a stopping point and a gateway into the heart of Europe over centuries, Rezi finds.

My journey over London skies was unlike any other experience in my life. Seeing the city from the skies in a helicopter is not a usual everyday opportunity for people. I have been living in London for a very long time. If someone asks me how much I know about this citymy answer would have to be , not enough. A city that was developed from several small villages around a river in Roman times, is now a complex cosmopolitan city. Beneath the surface of
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The most common and well-known event among Christians in the west is Christmas. Other cultures celebrate the winter solstice in the form of Yalda, Saturnalia, Karachunm, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Yule.

Reza provides readers with a quick snapshot of Luxembourg City, a city built over stone cliffs pierced with underground caves and a long network of casemates.

Why do so few people go to Thrace? Because, says Reza, it is largely unknown to our major tour operators.

Linz is a vibrant city, which looks forward to a bright future. It has a lot to offer to visitors from history to art, music and nature.

Malta’s mild climate and peacefulness has made it a small secluded spot in the Mediterranean sea, an island concealed by layers and layers of history spanning from antiquity to modern times.

Reza visited the largest re-enactment of the year – the Batte of Waterloo – staged on the 200th anniversary.