Baklava, Turkey’s Favorite Sweet
Turkey's favorite sweet is nut-filled baklava with dozens of layers of phyllo dough drenched in sugar syrup, perfect with a cup of Turkish coffee or tea. Read More
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The travel editors at the St. Louis Dispatch recently selected MIR’s Balkan Odyssey: Crossroads of Cultures small group tour as their pick for “Trip of the Week.” Featured in the paper’s Sunday travel section, the piece sums up the tour’s signature highlights, which include “a Roman amphitheater, the birthplace of Mother Teresa…the Stari Most, a bridge built in Ottoman times…a Macedonia feast with live music, a cable-car ride up Dajti Mountain and a visit to the somber Sarajevo Tunnel Museum to talk with a survivor who used the tunnel to escape Serbian shelling in the 1990s.”Read the full article on the St. Louis Dispatch website.
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