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Cultural tours in the Middle East & Central Asia
Our cultural tours of the Middle East and Central Asia cover it all: Mesopotamians, madrassas, biblical renown. Weaving through myths, legends and current historiography, our expert lecturers make sense of this ever-captivating region.
Suspended between East and West these lands have seen the rise and fall of astonishing civilisations – and our itineraries, which feature Turkey, Jordan, Oman and Uzbekistan reflect their greatest achievements.
These include the ancient frankincense trading ports of Oman and ancient Zafar, visited by Marco Polo; mysterious Petra, the rock-hewn, rose-pink necropolis in Jordan; and Haghia Sophia, the former basilica and mosque in Istanbul where East and West truly fuse. These are also lands of adventure and we follow the brutes and heroes of history, from Genghis Khan, Tamerlane and Alexander the Great on the Silk Road to TE Lawrence in the wadis and fortresses of the Jordanian desert.
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