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Footprints in the Balkans

2 February 2005 No Comment

Check out the latest installment in the continuing adventures of Anak Alam! Now, if Anak Alam is not the first Malaysian to visit Macedonia, Albania, and Bulgaria, he must be among very select company. He describes his travels in beautiful detail, as he stops at mosques, tombs and tekkes along the way. It is interspersed with translations of inscriptions on the holy places he visits, local poetry, and historical asides, giving his story great color, better than a photograph.

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