we start our journey In west Africa were Ibn Battuta was born in 1304 and first traveled to Mecca when he was 20.

next he travels to Cairo were he makes a lot of business and is very busy.

Jerusalem at the time was a rather small town only had 10,000 and his trip there was important to his journey.

next he travels to mecca because he is Muslim and that is one of the 5 pillars

leaves mecca and goes to Iraq to avoid the bubonic plague.

next he travels to Persia for trade and to make it to the next place as a transfer place

next he travels to the red sea and wasn't very excited to be traveling by boat because it was very hard to navigate and has many coral reefs.

next he travels to the Arabian sea because the monsoon winds changed pushing him to south Arabia.