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Neil Dauxois, 26, walked from his home in France to Al Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem. He traveled 3,900 kilometers in ten months to pray in the mosque during Ramadan.
The Dauxois crossed ten countries during his journey. He crossed Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus and Jordan to reach the mosque in Jerusalem.
Once in East Jerusalem, he received a warm welcome from Palestinian Muslims who went to Al Aqsa Mosque to pray. “People welcomed me with real hospitality,” he told the Turkish News Agency. Anadolu Agency. “I am very happy to be here and I cannot express my joy in words.”
Dauxois says his extraordinary course was “sometimes very doable, but also very difficult at times”. “Without helpful and friendly people, I would never have managed to cover this distance on foot”, he underlines.
Especially in Turkey, the Franco-Algerian Muslim received a lot of help. In countries where people were less friendly, he had a harder time. His walking tour also became more difficult in places where it was cold.
His next goal is to walk to Saudi Arabia for the Islamic pilgrimage. Dauxois wants to cover the distance between East Jerusalem and Mecca in a month and a half. “I hope for the support of the Saudis to reach my destination safely.”
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