47-year-old Senad Hadzic covered 5,700 km in 314 days of walking from Bosnia via Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey, war-torn Syria and Jordan to holy city of Makkah.
He left on Bosnia last December on pilgrimage to Makkah by foot and reached Makkah on Saturday. 1
He said he is not tired and were the best days of his life.
According to an AFP report, he charted his progress on his Facebook page, where he posted a picture apparently of an entry/exit card for foreigners issued by the Syrian Interior Ministry.
“I passed through Syria in April. I walked some 500 km in 11 days. I went through Aleppo and Damascus and passed dozens of checkpoints held by pro-government and rebel forces alike, but I was never detained,” Hadzic said.
“I walked in the name of Allah, for Islam, for Bosnia-Hercegovina, for my parents and my sister,” he added.
He said he had to wait in Istanbul for several weeks to get permission to cross the Bosphorus Bridge on foot and two months at the border between Jordan and Saudi Arabia to obtain an entry visa.
With AFP inputs