Thai Government declared a state of emergency on the 7th of April in the Bangkok and surrounding areas. With the situation in Thailand not getting any better, more than 40 countries have issued travel warnings for its citizens.

These include the following countries with different levels of travel alerts and warnings :

As of today, the Airports in most of the European cities still remain closed due to the volcanic ash from the volcano beneath Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier.

Check out the following airport website to get the latest updates to flight disruptions :

As much as I love traveling, I enjoy bringing home tons of photographs from each trip to show to my family and friends, and also to preserve memories. With the advent of digital photography and cell phones with amazing cameras, photographs are the least expensive souvenirs one can bring home from a vacation. After many trials and errors, I'd like to share with you 10 tips that will improve your travel pictures, inshaAllah.

ITB Berlin was packed with more exhibitors than any of the previous years with more than 11,000 companies exhibiting their services and products. This has been a very encouraging sign for the industry which was battered with bad news in 2009. Most of the exhibitors had invested quite a bit in getting their stands look very exciting.

Bismillah-hir-rahman-nir-raheem, Alhamdulillah, today we are launching our Blog. Insha Allah we hope this will allow all of you to share travel stories, discuss issues related to travel and write about anything which will be beneficial for the Halal conscious travelers. We wish that this will also allow Halal friendly travel facilities and service providers to discuss issues on how best to serve the Halal conscious travelers.