I’ll admit that I wasn’t really sure what to expect with Saudi Arabia. They just started a “tourist visa” for the first time very recently. It’s always been family visits, business visas, or pilgrimage. Now that they have an online tourist visa option, and since I needed to change my plans away from going to…
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From the Maldives, we were on the opposite side of the planet from home, and it was a long trip. Fortunately or not, depending on the view, it just couldn’t be done in a single day while trying to fly Qatar QSuites (their business class), which we wanted to check out. No way we could’ve…
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This was a dream vacation. That’s an understatement, to be honest. Food poisoning was on its last legs on the flights from Nepal to Qatar to Maldives. We were lucky that there was a rain delay holding up the sea plane from the capital out to the island where our hotel was, because we wouldn’t…
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Nepal is a country I’ve heard and thought about many times, and we were really excited for this one. Nepal has a ‘visa on arrival’ system, but let’s say it’s…disorganized. 1st, there are machines that you have to use to fill out your info and no one to help people who don’t speak English (the…
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Before our original plans had changed, I thought I had time to pack in a solo 1-day stop in Bangladesh before meeting my wife in Nepal. I used points to fly from Kuala Lumpur on Malaysian Airlines to Dhaka, booked my wife onto the flight short-notice, and we got the visa on arrival at the…
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