A StoryTrek · One Thousand and One Nights

The Arabian Nights

Scheherazade saves her own life one story at a time, and her tales run from bustling cities and magnificent palaces to distant lands and magical realms. This shorter route gathers some of the collection’s most memorable characters and adventures. You walk every mile of it on your everyday walks, wherever you are.

Distance: 200 miles (322 km)
Waypoints: 20
Illustrated by: Edmund Dulac

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A blue patterned cover of The Arabian Nights, the gold title set in a starry arched window above a skyline of domes and minarets, translated by Sir Richard Burton

IHow long does it take to walk the Arabian Nights?

Two hundred miles across Scheherazade’s world.

The Arabian Nights never gives a distance for its travels. StoryTrek’s route measures this selection at 200 miles, with 20 waypoints drawn from the tales. Every walk, run, or treadmill session your phone records moves you another step along.

How long the journey takes

You walk	You reach the end in
2 miles a day (3 km)	about 14 weeks
3 miles a day (5 km)	about 10 weeks
5 miles a day (8 km)	about 40 days
10 miles a day (16 km)	about 20 days

A 10,000-step day is roughly 4 to 5 miles, which gets you to the end in about 45 days.

A young woman in a patterned headscarf holding an orange beneath the curving branches of a fruit tree, with a white peacock at her feet, painted by Edmund Dulac — Edmund Dulac’s jewel-toned Arabian Nights: a woman in a grove of orange trees.

IIThe road ahead

A shorter road through the tales.

Scheherazade keeps a king listening night after night, and this route follows her stories from bustling cities and magnificent palaces out to distant lands and magical realms. It gathers a selection of the most memorable characters and adventures; for the full sweep of the collection, The Arabian Nights: Epic runs 750 miles.

Each waypoint pairs one of Edmund Dulac’s 1907 illustrations with a moment from the tales. Reach one, and the next part of the story opens ahead of you.

Walk it together

Start a company and share the road with a friend, a book club, or your office. Each of you walks your own miles, wherever you live, while the group travels together through Scheherazade’s cities and palaces.

Enter the Arabian Nights

One more story,
one more mile.

Download StoryTrek, choose The Arabian Nights, and let Scheherazade’s first tale lead you out the door.