Cairo to Aydhab by the Upper Egypt road

Ibn Battuta's route from Cairo to Aydhab on the Red Sea, across Upper Egypt on the way to the Hijaz, as he recounts it in his journey ¹.

He left Cairo by the Upper Egypt road, and on the night of his departure he stayed at the rubat that the Sahib Taj al-Din ibn Hanna built at Dayr al-Tin. He then passed Munyat al-Qa'id and Bush ².

Then the towns along the Nile bank followed one another: Manluwi, Manfalut and Akhmim ³, then Luxor, Armant, Asna and Edfu ⁴.

From al-Mutawani he hired camels and travelled with a group of Arabs across a desert with no settlements, and reached Humaytha, where the tomb of Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili is ⁴. From Humaytha it was fifteen days to Aydhab, a town abundant in fish and milk, to which grain and dates were carried from Upper Egypt ⁵.

The page numbers are the printed numbers of the 1958 edition. The scanned copy used in preparing this page adds one to the printed page number in the file.

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