中東
中東地區由 西亞, 北非 和東非組成. 其實，中東地區沒有明確的劃分，可能也包括南亞 和 中亞地區.
中東國家: <map lat='30.06909396443887' lng='33.837890625' zoom='3' view='0' float='right' />
- 20px 阿富汗
阿爾及利亞
巴林- 20px 吉布提
埃及- 20px 厄立特里亞
伊朗- 20px 伊拉克
- 20px 以色列
約旦
科威特
黎巴嫩
利比亞- 20px 摩洛哥
巴勒斯坦- 20px 阿曼
卡塔爾
沙特阿拉伯- 20px 索馬里
蘇丹
阿拉伯敘利亞共和國
突尼斯- 20px 土耳其
阿拉伯聯合酋長國- 20px 也門
塞浦路斯, 巴基斯坦, 西撒哈拉 和其他一些國家有時也被包括在中東地區內。
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.
連結
- Hitchhiking Guide to Turkey for girls
- Just hitching rides: A journey from Eid to Christmas (Hitchhiking from Yemen to Germany), abgefahren Blogs
