Cairo Istanbul 2005

One of the travel classics: travel overland from Cairo to Istanbul.

We were gone for four months and explored Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Turkey, spending around 4 weeks in each country.

Plenty of time to fill up with impressions and memories. And learn a lot about the history of this region.

Full map of all Cairo Istanbul 2005 pages

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Thinking of our next destination: Italy and Portugal come to mind, or maybe the time has finally come for a US road trip…

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Introduction

(thomas;2007)

One of the travel classics and something we wanted to do for a long, long time: travel overland from Cairo to Istanbul… perhaps the two most enthralling megalopolises in the Islamic world. And even after having spent a considerable amount of time in both cities we are still not sure which of the two is more fascinating: both shower the visitor with such a wealth of history, monuments, impressions, smells, sounds… But between Cairo and Istanbul there are of course some other great sites - the Sinai peninsula, Wadi Rum, Petra, Palmyra, Cappadocia, Ephesus… to name but a few. Yes, it was a wonderful journey. We sent quite a few emails during the trip but we have no photos to show though, as we deliberately wanted to see how it feels to travel for such a long time and take not a single photo.

Check the mails we sent from the road (chose from English, French and German)
As a substitute for our lack of photos, check the ones we took in 2006 of Turkey, Syria and Lebanon and in 2015 during our Turkey15 Trip
Try some mezze recipes
Or retrace our route on this map showing our itinerary.

One highlight of the trip was the region of Cappadocia in Turkey and our first visit in 2005 was followed by many more over the years. This panorama was taken during our Turkey 2015 trip. Click on the panorama to open a larger version in a separate tab. Click again to activate scrolling and use the bottom scroll bar to navigate through the picture and view it in full detail.

Göreme, Cappadocia: The White Mountain and the Red/Rose valleys "flowing" down to the plain.

Finally, we have a full site map of all Cairo Istanbul pages; the other sections have local maps (see Blog Map and Photos Map and index pages (see Blog Index and Photos Index).

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