Sights en route
No less than 67 UNESCO World Heritage sites including the following:
Morocco- Fez, Meknes, Marrakesh, Volubilis
Algeria - Algiers casbah
Tunisia – Tunis medina, Carthage, El Djem, Sousse medina, Dougga, Kairouan
Libya - Leptis Magna, Sabratha, Cyrene
Egypt - Memphis, Thebes, Islamic Cairo
Israel - Jerusalem, Acre
Lebanon - Anjar, Byblos, Baalbek, Tyre, Qadisha valley
Syria - Damascus, Bosra, Palmyra, Aleppo
Jordan – Petra, Qasr Amra
Iraq – Hatra, Ashur, (Qalat ash-Shargat)
Iran - Chogha Zanbil, Persepolis, Isfahan maidan
Yemen - Sana’a, Zabid
Tanzania - Kilwa
Oman - Bahla fort, Frankincense trail
Turkey - Istanbul, Safranbolu, Cappadocia
Uzbekistan - Bukhara, Samarkand
Afghanistan - The Minaret at Jam
Pakistan – Mohenjodaro, Thatta
India - Qutb Minar, Humayun’s tomb in Delhi, Agra Fort, Taj Mahal, Fatehpur Sikri
Sri Lanka - Galle, Sigiriya
Bangladesh and India - Sundarbans (natural reserve)
China - The Great Wall, Summer Palace, Temple of Heaven in Beijing
Spain – Cordoba, Granada Alhambra
Mauritania - Ancient Ksour of Oulata, Ouadane
Mali - Djenne, Timbuktu
Niger – Air, Tenere (natural reserves)
The three holiest sites of Islam;
Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem
The remnants of five of the Classical Seven Wonders of the World;
The pyramids, the Pharos of Alexandria, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the temple of Diane at Ephesus, the mausoleum at Halicarnassus (Ibn Battuta failed to mention all of them save the pyramids which he described incorrectly, since as they were all pre-Islamic and therefore belonged to the jahiliyya or “Age of Ignorance”, they were of not import to his travels.
19 of The World Monuments Fund 100 Most endangered list.
Afghanistan –The minarets at Ghazni
China- The Great Wall
Egypt- Hierakonpolis at Edfu
Temple of Amenhotep III, Luxor
Sabil Ruqqaya, Cairo
Iraq-Irbil Citadel
Nineveh and Nimrud Palaces, Mosul
Jordan-‘Ain Gazal
Lebanon-Iskaudarouna-Naqoura
Mali-Bandiagara
Morocco-Sahrij & Sbaiyin Madrasa complex
Palestine-Al Qasem Palace, Beit Wazan
Tell Balatah, Nablus
Syria-Amrit
Bosra
Turkey-Izmir Synagogues, Izmir
Ephesus
Kariye Museum, Istanbul
Little Hagia Sophia Mosque, Istanbul
In addition to the above are the following Global Heritage Sites
(Entries previously listed under other categories are not included);
Egypt –Abu Mena
Iraq-Samarra
Lebanon-Tripoli, Saida, Enfeh
Morocco-Tetouan, Rabat
India-Mahalibapuram
Pakistan-Uch
