Omar Nok's Next Journey: Around the World Without a Plane

CairoScene

20-05-2025

Speaking exclusively to SceneTraveller, Nok reveals the details of his next flightless trip—and it's shaping up to be his most daring yet.
On February 8th, 2024, Egyptian adventurer and certified thrill-seeker Omar Nok dropped a bombshell: he was about to embark on his biggest, boldest journey yet—a flight-free trek across two continents and hundreds of cities, starting in Cairo and ending all the way in Japan.
For nearly ten months, Nok took the world along for the ride, sharing daily vlogs of his modern-day odyssey on Instagram—posts that felt like passports to the unexpected. From hidden alleyways to remote villages, from chance encounters to those 'only in the movies' moments, over 728,000 followers watched in awe as this 'crazy Egyptian' rewrote what it means to travel.
Then, on November 20th, 2024, after months of never boarding a plane, Nok finally took flight—straight out of Japan—closing a chapter that captured hearts and screens worldwide.
But, as one would expect from a daredevil of Nok's calibre, he wasn't close to being done.
Japan was followed by India, where Nok debuted a series of him crossing the sub-continent—again without flying. It was then that I reached out to him, both as a curious journalist and as a semi-obsessed fan who just so happened to have his number. I began to inquire about his trip to India; an adventure that I, someone who often postpones dinner due to an inability to get up and walk to the kitchen, deemed revolutionary.
That's when Omar Nok, in true Omar Nok fashion, casually blew my mind.
'India? That was just the warm-up,' he told me, his tone ever-casual. 'The real adventure is coming. Bigger. Wilder. More dangerous. And yes—my last hurrah.'
The bonafide adrenaline junkie expressed his desire to take a few steps back and settle down—but not before going out with a bang. Immediately, I began throwing out wild guesses—Russia to Antarctica, Cape Town to South America—but he just laughed.
'People aren't thinking big enough,' he said. 'This time, I'm heading west. All the way west. And I'll keep going until I end up right back in Egypt.'
Hold up. Egypt to Egypt? By way of what? The Sahara? The Atlantic? The Pacific? His answer was a simple, 'Yes.'
The plan? Start in late 2025. No flights. No fixed routes. Possibly no destination at all. This time, the unknowns are even greater. He might not find a boat. Or he might end up somewhere completely off-track. Unlike Egypt to Japan, where he'd mapped out several paths, this one's a zigzag from the Southern to Northern Hemisphere and back again.
I couldn't quite fathom the scale of it—let alone what keeps him dreaming bigger and bigger still. Turns out, it's all about the people.
'There was so much I didn't know about the world that I learnt on the way from Egypt to Japan—I saw the best of humanity. It's that faith that fuels me now.'
And so, another impossible journey is in the works. But if anyone can pull it off, it's Nok—the man who made strangers feel like companions and movement feel like magic. Because for him, this isn't just a trip. It's a full-circle act of wonder. Starting in Egypt, and daring to return, with a world of stories in between.