I recently explored National Geographic‘s Out Of Eden Walk’s webpage. The Out of Eden Walk is a projected created by journalist Paul Salopek, with the goal of exploring the pathways the first humans took out of Africa.

The first chapter had Salopek’s start out in Northern Ethiopia, with the goal of making it to Djibouti. The journey is long and along the way he encounters many people. He even had to walk through a huge graveyard. He finally made it to Djibouti after 41 days of traveled. He walked a combined 200 miles! I cant not imagine just how hard that journey was. Africa has an extremely hot desert climate. It made me think of how hard it must have been for the early humans to do it as well.

The second chapter of the journey starts with Salopek in Jeddah Saudi Arabia. He rode camels and traveled north through the deserts of Saudi Arabia. he eventually made it to Jordan on day 346 of his journey. In total he walked 1600 miles, that is the equivalent of walking 61 marathons!

In Chapter three Salopek continues his journey in Cyprus, an island nation off the coast of Greece. At this point of journey he had been walking for 532 days. He crossed the border into Turkey. While in Turkey Salopek saw many different things including Tarsus, the hometown of St. Paul. From there left and headed east further into Turkey.

Overall I found this to be a very interesting piece of journalism that highlights just how incredible human migration is. As of writing this Salopek is still on his journey, he is currently in Pakistan, and he has been on the journey for nearly 1700 days.