# Halal Travel Blog HalalTours.net — halal travel guides for Muslim travellers. Every article is a real guide written by the team that runs the trips; every topic below has its own page. Source page: https://www.halaltours.net/blog/ ## Topics - Halal Travel Guides (6 articles) — How to plan a trip that stays halal end to end: choosing a destination, checking an operator's halal and prayer claims, booking the right group type, and what to do when something goes wrong. This is the category to start with if you are planning a first halal-friendly trip. https://www.halaltours.net/blog/category/halal-travel/ - Muslim Heritage (5 articles) — Mosques, madrasas, palaces and cities built by Muslim dynasties — Ottoman Bosnia, eight centuries of Al-Andalus, Mughal India, Islamic Cairo — and the guides who can explain what you are actually looking at. https://www.halaltours.net/blog/category/muslim-heritage/ - Halal Food (3 articles) — Where halal food is easy, where it takes planning, and where the Muslim-owned places actually are. Country by country, written from the routes we run rather than from someone else's listicle. https://www.halaltours.net/blog/category/halal-food/ - Destination Guides (7 articles) — Practical guides to the places we go: what to see, when to go, how easy halal food is, and which mosques are open to visitors. https://www.halaltours.net/blog/category/destinations/ - Ramadan & Eid (2 articles) — What travelling during Ramadan actually looks like: iftar with the group, tarawih arranged nightly, shorter opening hours, and a daytime pace built for rest. https://www.halaltours.net/blog/category/ramadan/ - Prayer on the Road (2 articles) — Prayer on flights, in desert days, on long drives and in cities where the mosque is closed to visitors — plus what to pack for wudu on the move. https://www.halaltours.net/blog/category/prayer/ - Women Travellers (1 articles) — Sister rooming, women-only facilities, dress codes that are practical rather than preachy, and travelling with a group of women rather than as the only woman in one. https://www.halaltours.net/blog/category/women/ - Family Travel (1 articles) — Children and parents on the same itinerary: earlier dinners, prayer stops that do not eat the afternoon, rooming that keeps a family together, and which routes suit which ages. https://www.halaltours.net/blog/category/family/ ## Articles - **Five legendary Muslim travellers — and where they actually went** (Muslim Heritage, Halal Travel Guides, 2026-10-08) — Ibn Battuta, Ibn Fadlan, Evliya Çelebi, Muhammad Asad and Ibn Khaldun travelled further and wrote better than most people manage today. Here is what they saw, and where you can still follow them. https://www.halaltours.net/blog/five-legendary-muslim-travellers/ - **Sarajevo's Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque: the Ottoman heart of the city** (Muslim Heritage, Destination Guides, 2026-10-06) — Built in the 1530s and still the centre of Sarajevo life, the Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque and its complex explain Bosnia better than any museum. https://www.halaltours.net/blog/gazi-husrev-beg-mosque-sarajevo/ - **Bosnia's Ottoman legacy: four centuries you can still walk through** (Muslim Heritage, Destination Guides, 2026-10-04) — From Sarajevo's bazaar to Mostar's bridge, Bosnia holds one of the most intact Ottoman landscapes in Europe. What survived, what was destroyed, and what it means now. https://www.halaltours.net/blog/ottoman-legacy-bosnia/ - **Halal food in Turkey: what to eat, city by city** (Halal Food, Destination Guides, 2026-10-02) — Turkey is the easiest country in the world to eat halal in — but it is not all kebabs. A practical city-by-city guide, from Istanbul's breakfast to Antalya's seafood. https://www.halaltours.net/blog/halal-food-turkey/ - **Travelling in Ramadan: a practical guide** (Ramadan & Eid, Halal Travel Guides, 2026-09-30) — Fasting on the road is entirely manageable if the trip is built for it. Where to go, when to move, and how to plan flights, iftar and tarawih. https://www.halaltours.net/blog/ramadan-travel-guide/ - **Al-Andalus: eight centuries of Muslim Spain, and where to see it** (Muslim Heritage, Destination Guides, 2026-09-28) — The Mezquita of Córdoba, the Alhambra, the Giralda — and the towns where Muslim Spain survives in the stone. A guide to the sites and what each one tells you. https://www.halaltours.net/blog/al-andalus-spain/ - **How to plan a halal-friendly trip: the six questions that actually matter** (Halal Travel Guides, Prayer on the Road, 2026-09-26) — Forget the lists of halal restaurants. These are the six decisions that determine whether a Muslim traveller has a good trip or a tiring one. https://www.halaltours.net/blog/how-to-plan-halal-trip/ - **Prayer times on the road: flights, desert days and long drives** (Prayer on the Road, Halal Travel Guides, 2026-09-24) — How to keep the five prayers on a travel day — long-haul flights, desert stretches, cities where the mosque is closed to visitors, and what to pack for wudu on the move. https://www.halaltours.net/blog/prayer-times-on-the-road/ - **Halal travel for women: the questions sisters actually ask us** (Women Travellers, Halal Travel Guides, 2026-09-22) — Sister rooming, women-only pool and hammam hours, dress codes that are practical, and how to travel with a group of women instead of being the only woman in one. https://www.halaltours.net/blog/halal-travel-for-women/ - **Travelling with children: a halal family trip that actually works** (Family Travel, Halal Travel Guides, 2026-09-20) — Earlier dinners, prayer stops that do not eat the afternoon, rooming that keeps a family together, and an honest guide to which routes suit which ages. https://www.halaltours.net/blog/travelling-with-children-halal-family-trip/ - **Halal food in Morocco, Spain and Bosnia: what changes at the border** (Halal Food, Destination Guides, 2026-09-18) — Three countries where halal food is easy for three completely different reasons — and the specific things that catch people out in each. https://www.halaltours.net/blog/halal-food-morocco-spain-bosnia/ - **Muslim-friendly Istanbul in three days** (Destination Guides, Muslim Heritage, 2026-09-16) — A three-day Istanbul that puts the mosques first: Hagia Sophia, Süleymaniye, the Blue Mosque, the Bosphorus and the food — with prayer times built in rather than squeezed out. https://www.halaltours.net/blog/muslim-friendly-istanbul-three-days/ - **Iftar around the world: six cities, six ways to break the fast** (Ramadan & Eid, Halal Food, Destination Guides, 2026-09-14) — What iftar looks like in Istanbul, Marrakech, Kuala Lumpur, Sarajevo, Dubai and Granada — and why Ramadan is one of the best times to travel, not the worst. https://www.halaltours.net/blog/iftar-around-the-world/ Last updated: 2026-10-10