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Anonymous
If you want an involving and great trip, I'd suggest option 3
Morocco-Algiers-Tunis-Egypt by land, sail to the greek islands, and travel to Istanbul through Greece. After looking through continental Turkey, fly to China, and make your way through SE Asia on your way to Pakistan.
Seriously, if your looking to travel and enjoy it, avoid the Middle East, unless your a moslem and speak good arabic, otherwise its mostly a waste of money. Northern Africa is beautiful, and is very culturally enriching, the Greek Islands are fantastic (though you could avoid them I guess...), and European Turkey is weird in teh juxtaposition of European and Islamic values.
However, Afghanistan and Iraq just aren't plain safe for pretty much anyone, and Iran can only be visited with a tour group. Saudi is Ok, but boring for non-moslems, as the best sites are restricted. The UAE is just a boring generic city, unless you can afford one of the 7 star hotels. And the cool palm islands just look normal islands from the ground, and the rest is one bog building site. Avoid like the plague if you have anything approaching what could be called a budget...
SE Asia however is awesome. If you want something better, you could travel north from Istanbul through East Europe and take the Trans Siberian to beijing and move from there.
However, that could expand your budget bit more. For reference, I did something rather similar, starting in UK, moving through Spain and NA, and doing the Trans Siberian option. Was awesome.
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