Hungarian traveler recounts his journey to world cities, including Holy Najaf and Karbala

The Hungarian daily newspaper “Metropol” published a special report detailing the visit of its citizen, the prominent traveler and blogger “István Berger,” to dozens of cities around the world, including Holy Najaf and Holy Karbala.

The newspaper said in its report, which was translated by Karbala Center for Studies and Research and viewed by Shia Waves Agency, that “the Hungarian traveler and blogger István Berger had made exploratory trips to 83 countries around the world,” noting that Berger began his last journey in recent years from the famous city of Hong Kong, to continue from it along the Silk Road, which extends from China through the former Soviet Central Asia and then to Iran, Iraq and Turkey.”

The report continued that “what attracted the traveler’s attention were the people, the personal stories, and the natural landscapes he witnessed in the cities of Bukhara, Samarkand, and Khiva in Uzbekistan, the ancient historical cities of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, in addition to the holy cities of Mashhad in Iran, and Najaf and Karbala in Iraq.” The newspaper, which has been published since 1998, pointed out that the Silk Road was for centuries one of the most important commercial and cultural intermediary routes in the world, where there are currently intense attempts to restore its former glory.