Pierre Flener's Travel Page
My Travel Publications
I wrote various travel-related resources:- My Diary of a Foreigner Living in Turkey (1993-1998) has 7 parts.
- Blogs on:
- Egypt and Jordan (May 1992)
- Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan (August 1994)
- Iran (July 1996)
- Independent travel guides (not maintained any more) to:
The Countries and Territories I Have Visited
I have spent at least one day in the following countries and territories, so I can pretend knowing a little bit about them (the world's nicest places, in my humble opinion, are spelled in pink):
- in Europe:
- Luxembourg: my beloved home-country, in which I have seen literally every corner
- Belgium: I studied in Liège, Namur, and Louvain-la-Neuve, and have been all over the country: Arlon, Bouillon, Durbuy, Orval, Spa, Verviers, Brussels, Bruges, Oostende, Koksijde, Wenduine, Blankenberge, ...
- The Netherlands: Amsterdam, Delft, Eindhoven, Maastricht, ...
- France: I have lived for 5 months in Grenoble, and visited Paris, Lille, Toulouse, Marseille, Reims, Metz, Dijon, Lyon, Nantes, Montpellier, ...
- United Kingdom: London, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh, Inverness, Aberdeen, St Andrews, ...
- Sweden: I live in Uppsala since 1998, and visited Stockholm, Lund, Malmö, Ystad, Göteborg, Sundsvall, Umeå, Kiruna, Örebro, ...
- Norway: Oslo, Narvik, Lofoten islands
- Denmark: Copenhagen, Hillerød, Odense
- Finland: Helsinki
- Iceland: Keflavik
- Russia: St Petersburg
- Estonia: Talinn
- Latvia: Riga
- Germany: Aachen, Trier, Saarburg, München, Darmstadt, Freiburg, Marktoberdorf, Berlin, Mönchengladbach, ...
- Switzerland: Zürich, Kandersteg, Interlaken, Geneva, ...
- Austria: Vienna, Salzburg
- Liechtenstein: Vaduz
- Spain: Barcelona, Sitges, Madrid, Málaga, Cádiz, Arcos de la Frontera, Sevilla, Córdoba, Granada, Tabernas, Almería; Lanzarote island; Gran Canaria island; Tenerife island: Los Gigantes, Masca, Icod de los Vinos, Garachico
- Portugal: Lisbon, Madeira island: Funchal, Santana
- Italy: Padova, Venezia, Pisa, Roma
- Greece: Thessaloniki, Mt Olympus, Meteora, Athens, Patras, Kythira, Crete, Santorini, Rhodos, Kalymnos, Kos, Nisyros, Volos
- Slovenia: Ljubljana, Bled
- Croatia (when part of Yugoslavia)
- Serbia (when part of Yugoslavia): Belgrade
- Kosovo (when part of Yugoslavia)
- North Macedonia (when part of Yugoslavia)
- Hungary: Budapest
- in the Near East and Middle East:
- Turkey: I have lived in Ankara for five years and in istanbul for one year, and have been to many more places than most Turks, namely istanbul, Edirne, Bursa, Eskisehir, Afyon, Emirdag, Ankara, Konya, Karaman, Kapadokya, Kayseri, Amasya, Sivas, Erzincan, Erzurum, Dogubeyazit, Malatya, Mt Nemrut, Kaçkar mountains, Trabzon, Sinop, Inebolu, Amasra, Safranbolu, Kastamonu, Isparta, Egridir, Izmir, Fethiye, Kas, Finike, Olympos, Elmali, Antalya, Alanya, Anamur, Silifke, Antakya, Turunç, Didim, Selçuk, Sirince, Tire, Birgi, ..., and many many historical sites nearby
- Northern Cyprus: Girne, Gazi Magusa, Lefkosa, Güzelyurt
- Iran: Tabriz, Tehran, Esfahan, Shiraz, Takht-e-Jamshid = Persepolis, Yazd, Mashhad, Neishabur, Gorgan, Ramsar, Rasht, Masuleh, Qazvin, Alamut
- Jordan: Aqaba, Wadi Rum, Petra, Kerak, Dead Sea, Madaba, Amman
- Syria: Alep, Damascus, Maaloula
- Lebanon: Beirut, Jbail = Byblos, Jeita, Harissa, Baalbek = Heliopolis, Deir el Kamar, Qadisha valley
- Israel: Jerusalem, Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Akko = Acre, Rosh HaNikra
- Oman: Muscat, Nizwa
- Bahrein: Manama
- in Asia:
- Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek, Karakol
- Turkmenistan: Ashkhabad, Tashauz
- Uzbekistan: Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva
- India: Bangalore, Hampi, Delhi
- Nepal: Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, Patan, Pokhara, Annapurna National Park
- Indonesia: Bali island: Ubud; Java island: Mt Bromo, Malang, Solo, Yogyakarta, Pangandaran, Bandung, Jakarta; Sumatra island: Padang, Bukittinggi, Lake Toba area, Medan; Lombok island: Sengigi, Whale Shark Point; Komodo island; Flores island: Labuan Bajo; Sulawesi island: Rantepao, Tana Toraja area; Kalimantan island: Pangkalan Bun, Tanjung Puting park
- Singapore
- in Africa:
- Morocco: Marrakesh, Fes, Essaouira, Tanger, Kenitra, Rabat, Casablanca, the High-Atlas region, the Anti-Atlas region, and the Middle-Atlas region
- Egypt: Cairo, Aswan, Luxor, Hurghada, Dahab, Mt Sinai
- Cabo Verde: Boavista island
- in the Americas:
- USA: I have been a visiting PhD student at Duke University in Durham (North Carolina) for a year, and have otherwise been all over the country, namely the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Washington DC, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, California, Washington, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, and Oregon
- Canada: Québec-City
- Mexico: Mexico-City, Palenque, Merida, Chichen Itza, Tulum, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Oaxaca
- Guatemala: Tikal, Livingstone, Guatemala-City, Antigua, Lago Atitlán
- Belize: Belize-City
- Venezuela: Caracas, Isla Margarita
- Peru: Lima, Arequipa, Puno, Lago Titicaca, Cuzco, Sacsahuaman, Machu Picchu
- Bolivia: La Paz, Potosí, Sucre, Cochabamba, Tiahuanaco
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