Hello, I am Ibn Hattuta
I have travelled to 45 country
All in a low budget
Many of you asked me about my story how did I start traveling
And now I will tell you how
My life started with a simple family in the capital of Jordan
Amman
I grew up all my life in Jordan
But my family origin is Yafa and Nablus in Palestine
And I always listened to my grandfather's childhood story there before the occupation
Our life was similar to most of the people of Amman
of middle class
I studied in public school
My father worked as a civil engineer
and my mom is housewife
the furthest place I went
it was Aqaba in south Jordan
The only different thing from others of my generation
It was that , on every Thursday
From 1st grade till high school
I used to go to a scouting group
from which I built my social life
many skills and volunteering
And I discovered what is outdoor and camping
which made me love to explore
I used to read stories of explorers
Ibn Battuta, Magellan
Christopher Columbus and others.. I would dream of it
But it was only a far dream
The first time I travelled to for tourism out of Jordan was
when I was 16 years old to Turkey
with a touristic group with family
And I realized that traveling was very expensive
and the dream would be further
But after while looking at the internet
I discovered that there is a way to travel with a low cost
I started working in part time job in summer
like filling bags in super markets
And cleaning the kitchen in KFC restaurants
and with those small amount of money that I collected I see where can I travel
My first trip was to Turkey
but in a local way this time
The second trip I went to UAE
As I had found cheapest way to discover the places
There was a big interest from my friends about how do II travel like that
So I started my blog"Ibn Hattuta" in 2015
To share my experience
The first trip was by a German educational scholarship
After that I traveled to Sri Lanka for 2 weeks and It cost me 500$
And I wrote an article about it
After I went to India for one month with a cost of 600$
And with every article, people were more interested
and my blog was considered as one of the best 5 Arabian travel blogs
But my story spread for the first time
when I started using Snapchat
I started sharing my trips and tips instantly through the app
When it first launched
And my snaps spread widely
which made my name in the list of the most influential travellers in the Arab World
However at that time
I have been to only 5 countries
During this time I was a student at the German-Jordan University
In computer science major
I was the first of my class
and because of my good grades, I had a scholarship to do a semester in Portugal
and one year in Germany
In this period I have been to almost 20 European country
I bought a camera and I started for the first time sharing my videos in YouTube
I learned filming,and video editing by myself
and I started to develop
and I kept sharing my experiences and traveling advices using my channel
At the end of my period in Germany I got a chance to participate
in a the reality show Sadeem for a content creation in Beirut
and I actually participated and it was a great experience
it introduced me to great people
Unfortunately I didn't win ,but I performed a level that I am satisfied with
During all this time , my money was
from work and scholarship
But after graduation
I must take a bold decision
That I will put all my energy to make my life in way I like.
and not to go on the way work which I saw like jail for me
and I start my life in a new direction
Sorry mom, sorry dad because I don't want to live a normal life
In the beginning
I spent money I save in the past period
In addition to little money that come from
collaboration with advertisement and content industry with some companies
but the money was little
I collaborated with Sadeem to make a series of videos in China
And they financed it
And tourism boards were inviting me sometimes
like when I travelled to Indonesia
By the invitation of the embassy of Indonesia in Jordan
I realized my videos are not spread enough
to make a financial source at that time
that is why I took a bold decision
to transform the content from vlogs about my trip into
videos that shows stories and some specific topics
and when I start in this way
My likes in my page Facebook increases
from 100K TO 500K in 5 month
And my followers and views increased vastly
from that time, the views in Facebook and YouTube are my main source of income
many people envy me for the life I have
without knowing that before traveling was my source of income
There was 5 years of continuous hard work
to build my blog
Today I'm continuing with my passion to travel and make content
and now my object is to be the first arabic to make content
from all over the world
and all of it with Jordan passport
May god bless you travels
Salam