Off the beaten path: Avid travelers share experiences

Off the beaten path: Avid travelers share experiences

By Faten Omar

KUWAIT: Summer is the season of travel in Kuwait, and people are increasingly embarking on journeys to uncharted territories and unfamiliar destinations in search of unique experiences, driven by a curiosity to explore the unconventional and discover the extraordinary. Kuwait Times spoke with travelers in Kuwait to learn more about the interesting and unusual places they have discovered. Mimi Al-Addin told Kuwait Times about her once-in-a-lifetime experiences in Greece in an area called Kalavryta, where a massacre happened. “In 1943, it was a tragic day for a small Greek village called Kalavryta.

During World War II, the German army decided to kill all the males (men and children) of the village. As for the women and girls, they were gathered in a school to be burned alive,” she said, adding 13 men survived because they hid under the corpses, and helped revive the village. “Imagine a village where most of its houses are abandoned and you find a yard filled with the bodies of its inhabitants. All the bodies were buried in the same place where they were killed, and it is truly an indescribable feeling when you stand in the place of their extermination, which is at the