Western Asia

Travel podcasts covering Western Asia. One show per country, each with a local host and a daily episode.

Lake Sevan’s highland shoreline offers a summer coolness that sits oddly with the continental heat of the Aras River valley below.

The third largest island in the Mediterranean, Cyprus pairs a central plain with mountain ranges to the north and south and a…

The Great Caucasus Mountains run along Georgia's northern edge, while the Kolkhida Lowland opens westwards to the Black Sea and the Mtkvari…

The Negev desert, hot and dry in the south, gives way to a low coastal plain and central mountains; Hebrew and Arabic…

The Jordanian Highlands, a north-south spine west of the capital, channel winter rains towards the Dead Sea and the Jordan Valley.

The Al Hagar Mountains, where most of the population lives, rise over a central desert plain and a southern coast that changes…

The flat desert peninsula holds 658,000 people in Doha, its capital, and most of the rest cluster nearby on the eastern side.

A mostly sandy desert stretching between the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea makes Saudi Arabia the largest country on earth with…

The Anatolian plateau, with its harsh interior climate, sits at the heart of a country whose largest city clusters around the Bosporus.

The eastern Hajar Mountains rise sharply from the flat coastal plain, while the massive sand dunes of the Empty Quarter stretch beyond…