ABSTRACT
In the year 1672-73, Evliya Celebi traveled to the source of the Nile and provides interesting observations and information. His impressions in particular of the route south from Cairo to the river's source constitute the most original account of this part of Africa in the seventeenth century. The cities at the beginning of this journey, from Cairo to Girga, possessed a level of civilization and exhibited a richness of architecture and commercial activity. The region between Girga and Ibrim, and then between Ibrim and Sennar, was the land where he gradually left behind the familiar features of his own civilization and began to enter a world of a different people and culture. The course of this journey sometimes was overcome with fear and anxiety, that he experienced differences in perception, and eventually endured protracted inner loneliness. Nevertheless, these concerns did not in any way keep him from his journey and he continued on the way to his destination.
