The Mozaik picture of long years of travel

by Basem Safadi (Turkey)

A leap into the unknown Turkey

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I am calling my self IBn Battuta Jr. just like the famous (Ibn Battuta) The title of “history’s most famous traveler” usually goes to Marco Polo, the great Venetian wayfarer who visited China in the 13th century. For sheer distance covered, however, Polo trails far behind the Muslim scholar Ibn Battuta. Though little known outside the Islamic world, Battuta spent half his life tramping across vast swaths of the Eastern Hemisphere. Moving by sea, by camel caravan and on foot, he ventured into over 40 modern day nations, often putting himself in extreme danger just to satisfy his wanderlust. When he finally returned home after 29 years, he recorded his escapades in a hulking travelogue known as the Rihla. Though modern scholars often question the veracity of Battuta's writings—he may never have visited China, for example, and many of his accounts of foreign lands appear to have been plagiarized from other authors' works—the Rihla is a fascinating look into the world of a 14th-century vagabond. I had been mostly everywhere except the Caribbean, I would like to conclude my travel history there and will draw my travel road map in any tree on the beach overt there and this will elaborate my story both in strawing and writing