The Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake is one of 12 cities in the Niagara Region and consists of the society of historic Old Town, Virgil, St. Davids, Glendale, Queenston, and the surrounding rural areas. Niagara-on-the-Lake is a Canadian town located in Southern Ontario where the Niagara River meets Lake Ontario. Niagara-on-the-Lake is an ideal home base for [...]
Al Marwa Rayhaan by Rotana, Makkah is Rotana’s first hotel to open in Saudi Arabia under the new brand Rayhaan Hotels and Resorts by Rotana, offering 433 marvelous rooms and suites with their contemporary design complementing the values of the Arabian culture.
Umm Alqura Makarim Hotel offers contemporary lodging with free parking and daily newspapers. Haram is a 5-minute drive away by free return transport service. Fixed with contemporary furnishings, each room has cable TV and an en suite bathroom with bathroom facilities. Some rooms provide feathery bathrobes.
Madain Saleh, also known as al-Hijr, is one of the best known archaeological sites in Saudi Arabia, located near Ula (previously known as Dedan), some 400 kilometers north of Madina. Madain Saleh was once inhabited by the Nabataeans some 2000 years ago, Petra (located in Jordan) being the capital of the Nabataean kingdom. The Nabataeans [...]
Al-Masjid Al-Nabawi (The Prophet’s Mosque)
The second holiest place in Islam, the second of the holy mosques, is at the very centre of Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah. The first thing that any visitor to Madinah sees is the mosque, with its ten (10) very tall minarets reaching high into the sky.
Madinah, which lies 447 kilometers north of the Holy City of Makkah, is the second Holiest City in Islam. It was to Madinah that the PROPHET MUHAMMAD, (Peace Be Upon Him), and his Followers, faced by the hostility and harassment of the Makkhan merchants, departed in 622 AD – and, when the people of Madinah [...]
Mecca also spelled Makkah transliterated Makkah Al Mukarramah is a city in Saudi Arabia. Makkah is the Holiest city on earth to Muslims. Five times each day, the world’s one billion Muslims, wherever they may be, turn to the Holy City of Makkah to Pray. And at least once in their [...]
The ancient city of Babylon (Babylon was a city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which are found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 mi) south of Baghdad), under King Nebuchadnezzar II, must have been a wonder to the traveler’s eyes. In addition to its size,” wrote Herodotus, a historian [...]
As per official new seven Wonders of Nature reaches its third and final phase, Travelbite.co.uk has a look at the results from New seven wonders’s last major campaign: to determine the Official New Seven Wonders of the World.
