Around the Middle East
in 80 days

The lines ending in an arrow represent me moving from one place to another, and the number next to the arrow is the day (from 1 to 80) on which I did this. I usually traveled in the evening and visited the place I traveled to the day after. The lines without an arrow represent day-trips (to a place and back on the same day). My second visit to Turkey is in a different colour than the rest. The dotted lines are my flights.

Here's a little overview to get you oriented. On day 1 I flew to Antalya on the Turkish south coast. I took a night bus to Pergamon on the west coast, and then traveled all along the Turkish coast in 6 days. On day 7 I moved into Syria, to Aleppo. On day 16 I went from Damascus to Baalbek in Lebanon. The next day I went to Beirut from where I did several day-trips before going back to Damascus on day 22. On day 25 I went to Amman in Jordan and the next day pushed straight on to Tiberias in the north of Israel. Via Safed, Akko, Haifa and Tel Aviv I got to Jerusalem on day 31. I stayed there for a week, making several day-trips before going back to Jordan on day 38.

I moved south through Jordan, arriving in Petra on day 40 and Aqaba at the Red Sea on day 43. Then I made a loop back up to the Dana nature reserve on day 44 and back down to Aqaba on day 47, pushing straight on to Dahab in Egypt that same day. On day 50 I went to Alexandria where I spent almost two weeks before going to Cairo on day 63. On day 69 I flew to Istanbul. The lines representing my final stretch through Turkey are in a different colour than the first part. I went to Ankara, Cappadocia and Konya before arriving in Antalya on day 77. After two day-trips from there I flew back to Belgium on day 80. Clear? :)