Al-Tighnari described his travels in the book in many places, mentioning, for example, the city of Salé, Morrocco and the fortress of Bani Hammad, Algeria. He then headed east to Egypt, and perhaps from there to the Hijaz, Saudi Arabia and performed the Hajj. In his writing on agriculture (al-Hina'), he mentioned that he visited Egypt and saw how long the trees there grew, saying: "I saw it in the land of Egypt, and in the land of the Levant, which was planted 25 years ago, and the trees grew on the legs of a man like the son of Adam".