Stonework, Dhi Ayn, Saudi Arabia I mentioned in the post about the mountains of Saudi Arabia that a special trip from Al Baha down to the Tihama took me and the friend I travelled with to the so-called "Marble Village", Dhi Ayn, or Dhee Ayn, choose your spelling because nobody has the final answer when it comes to transliterating Arabic. The village was only on the periphery of my friend's awareness, not squarely [...]

March 2018 Mountains have been very much in my mind lately as I plan trips to visit montane areas here on the islands of Panay and Negros in PH. There are fantastic mountain ranges on both islands, and since I've been a mountain-dweller from my tenderest years they always draw me more than the beach scene. People I meet always say, "Oh sir, you need to go to Boracay!" Do I indeed? Does it [...]