Visit Massawa

The world's largest car-free old city.

Swahili island town of donkeys, dhows and carved doorways.

Al-Balad’s coral-stone merchant houses with carved wooden balconies, a UNESCO gateway for centuries of Mecca pilgrims.

Tiny island of coral-stone colonial buildings that named the country.

Coral-stone lanes and the Old Friday Mosque on the Indian Ocean.

Ancient Islamic city of 82 mosques, where hyenas are fed by hand at night.

Rumi's tomb and the whirling dervishes, the Seljuk capital in the middle of Anatolia.

The city of saints: blue-tiled Sufi shrines and the hottest summers in the subcontinent.