中东

中东地区由 西亚, 北非 和东非组成. 其实，中东地区没有明确的划分，可能也包括南亚 和 中亚地区.

中东国家: <map lat='30.06909396443887' lng='33.837890625' zoom='3' view='0' float='right' />

• 20px 阿富汗
• 阿尔及利亚
• 巴林
• 20px 吉布提
• 埃及
• 20px 厄立特里亚
• 伊朗
• 20px 伊拉克
• 20px 以色列
• 约旦
• 科威特
• 黎巴嫩
• 利比亚
• 20px 摩洛哥
• 巴勒斯坦
• 20px 阿曼
• 卡塔尔
• 沙特阿拉伯
• 20px 索马里
• 苏丹
• 阿拉伯叙利亚共和国
• 突尼斯
• 20px 土耳其
• 阿拉伯联合酋长国
• 20px 也门

塞浦路斯, 巴基斯坦, 西撒哈拉 和其他一些国家有时也被包括在中东地区内。

女性

alex: As the question and discussion comes up regularly, I would like to devote a couple of thoughts to the topic “Hitchhiking as female”, even though I can only give limited information regarding this as I am male and the experiences are only second hand and interpretative. I can say that the people that I, and when I was with a female companion, met during my journey (and the four months I stayed in Yemen before that) brought a lot of respect into the encounter we had in Yemen. This is also what was reported from many other female moving solo in bigger cities. Further, I felt that the social pressure towards adequate behaviour in public is very high in the Middle East, meaning that people usually will not behave inappropriately when other people are around and watch or when the attention is brought on a person (thus in awkward situations taking people out of the anonymity helps!). Arguable, males in Arabic societies do have less contact with females (and the other way around) and many prejudices exist (on both sides), about Western women and Arabic societies and men which does not make the issue easier. Nevertheless, the guys I met and talked to are males like in other places and their needs and jokes are not much different. Generally, there are risks in all societies, and I think one cannot argue whether they are higher in the one or in the other (unknown) society. From my experiences and perspective there is no discussion whether females that hitchhike in the West, and came to a understanding and handling of the risks, should or should not hitchhike in the East.

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中东地区

链接

• Hitchhiking Guide to Turkey for girls
• Just hitching rides: A journey from Eid to Christmas (Hitchhiking from Yemen to Germany), abgefahren Blogs

wikipedia:Middle East