Lifestyle

Prestige issue 269-270, Dec. 2015-Jan. 2016
After we landed, I just fell in love with this rich multi cultural country till this day. I was very lucky to have visited important cities with my dad, like Bombay, Delhi, Agra and Srinagar in Kashmir. It was also the first time I heard of the Himalaya Mountains when my father pointed at them from the plane on our way to Srinagar.

Prestige issue 127-128, Dec-Jan. 2003-2004
At 32 kms from Aleppo. A mountain. A place of pilgrimage. Qal’at Simaan, the citadel of Simeon. The saint lived there 42 years on a pillar. He was called the Stylite. His asceticism fascinated. His faith was mobilizing crowds. When he died, people wanted to make the richest tribute to the man who had made a vow of poverty. Around this pillar was built a large church.

Its name does not inspire joy, this sea that is actually a huge salt lake of more than 800km2, is the delight of thousands of tourists. What attracts so many people to this dream destination? Is it the paradisiacal setting? Is it the luxurious hotels that grow along its shores,