صحبة · Suhba
Send them somewhere gentle, with someone beside them the whole way.
Small escorted journeys for parents aged 60 to 78, arranged by their sons and daughters. An Arabic-speaking host with a nursing background travels with them from the airport gate to the airport gate. A registered nurse travels with them too. Prayer and halal food are planned into every day, not arranged on the spot.
Where this business actually is, today
Our first departure is September 2027. We have never run one yet.
So there are no photographs of our travellers on this page, and no reviews. We have not taken those photographs and nobody has travelled with us to write a review — and we are not going to use stock pictures of strangers to suggest otherwise.
What we do have is the journey itself, written down in full: every night, every drive with its real duration, every meal, every mosque, the lift in every hotel, and the name and distance of the nearest hospital at each stop. That is on the page below, and you can read all of it before you speak to us.
We think that is a better basis for a decision about your mother and father than a photograph of someone else’s.
Who this is for
A son or daughter in the Gulf who wants their parents to travel, and cannot take three weeks off to go with them. Parents aged roughly 60 to 78 who walk unaided, manage their own medication and want to see something — at a pace that does not punish them for it.
And who it is not for, yet
- Anyone who needs help with washing, dressing or eating. We are not a care service and we will say so.
- Anyone whose condition or medication has changed in the last six weeks. We would ask you to travel later instead.
- Anyone looking for medical care abroad. Our wellness days are rest, not therapy, and we make no medical claims at all.
Who is actually beside them
Four people, and each one does a different job. We are precise about this because the difference matters if something goes wrong.
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The Rafeeqa — your parents’ host
An Arabic-speaking woman with a nursing or paramedic background, certified in first aid, CPR and safe mobility help. She flies with the group from the Gulf hub and stays with them until they land home. She carries the group’s health passports and writes the evening note to you.
She is a companion with a nursing background. She is not the trip’s nurse and does not practise as one.
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The nurse
A nurse registered with the state in the country we are in, contracted through a licensed agency or clinic, working to a written protocol and a doctor’s prescription. She travels on the coach, stays in the same hotel and is on call at night.
Her registration number is printed in the health passport your parents carry.
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The doctor
A 24-hour on-call doctor at an internationally accredited hospital, reachable in person or by video, plus Arabic-language telemedicine so your mother can describe how she feels in her own words.
We do not provide medical care ourselves and we make no medical promises.
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The health passport
A bilingual document each traveller carries: conditions, medications, allergies, the emergency contacts, the nurse’s registration number and the nearest hospital at every stop.
It is built from a health file that belongs to your parent, not to you. See below.
The health file belongs to your mother or father
Before a departure we ask your parent about their health. That file is theirs, not yours, and we handle it that way from the first line of the database to the last.
The link to fill it in goes to your parent directly — to their own phone or their own email. It is never sent to a family group, and there is no way for us to send it to one.
You will always be told the outcome, because you paid and a decline means your money comes back. You are told the reason only if your parent chooses to share it with you. They are asked that question plainly, and the default answer is no.
Every single time that file is opened — by your parent, by a reviewing doctor, by us — a record is written of who opened it and when. Your parent can ask us for that record.
If a file needs to reach our team in Georgia, that is a transfer of health information across a border, and we ask for that consent separately rather than folding it into a sentence nobody reads.
Files belonging to residents of Saudi Arabia are reviewed by a doctor licensed in Saudi Arabia.
طمّني
Tammenni — طمّني
Every evening, wherever they are, you get a note. Where they went, what they ate, how they slept, whether your father used the lift or the stairs, and a photograph if they want one sent. There is a scheduled video call as well, set up by the host rather than by your mother fighting with a hotel’s wifi.
Tammenni means "put my heart at rest". That is the whole product, really.
The thirteen journeys
The first time you send them
Shorter flights, softer ground, and the gentlest introduction to travelling without you.
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Designed
Ma Wara' al-Nahr: Samarkand and Bukhara, the Scholars' Road
8 nights
Eight unhurried nights from the Mushaf of Uthman in Tashkent to the resting places of Imam al-Bukhari and Bahauddin Naqshband, by Afrosiyob high-speed train, with a nurse beside you.
Full page coming
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Designed
Land of Fire, Gently: Baku, Shamakhi, Gabala and Sheki
8 nights
Eight unhurried nights between the Caspian and the Caucasus: Friday prayer at Baku's Heydar Mosque, the 8th-century Juma Mosque of Shamakhi, Gabala's lakes and cable car and the Khan's Palace of Sheki, with a nurse beside you.
Full page coming
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Malaysia: Mosques, Highlands and the Straits
8 nights
Eight gentle nights in Kuala Lumpur, Penang and the cool Genting Highlands, with Friday prayer under the rose-pink dome of Masjid Putra, George Town by trishaw, and a registered nurse beside your parents the whole way.
Full page coming
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Designed
Serendib at an Easy Pace
8 nights
Kandy's royal gardens, the cool tea hills of Nuwara Eliya and the coast where Arab traders first landed, and never more than about three hours on the coach in a day.
Full page coming
The journey they will talk about
The middle of the range, and where most families start. Georgia is our own, run by us rather than contracted out.
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Designed
Suhba Georgia: Borjomi and Tskaltubo Springs
8 nights
Eight unhurried nights in Georgia's spring towns, with a Rafeeqa host and a registered nurse beside your parents, Friday prayer at Tbilisi's historic Juma Mosque, and halal tables every day.
Read the whole journey
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Designed
Suhba Turkey: Istanbul and Bursa, the tulip-and-thermal journey
8 nights
Jumu'ah under the domes of Camlica, the Bosphorus from your own boat, Eyup Sultan and the Grand Mosque of Bursa, then Ottoman thermal waters with a women-only spa, at a gentle pace with a nurse close by.
Full page coming
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Designed
Suhba Bosnia: Sarajevo and Mostar, the Ottoman river journey
8 nights
Jumu'ah at the Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque, a horse-carriage ride to the springs of the Bosna, the Neretva canyon to Mostar's Old Bridge, the dervish house at Blagaj and the Kravice falls, at a gentle pace with a nurse close by.
Full page coming
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Designed
River and Sea: A Royal Winter in Bangkok and Hua Hin
8 nights
Eight calm winter nights between Bangkok's Chao Phraya riverside and Hua Hin's royal seaside, with Friday prayer at historic mosques and Bumrungrad's Arabic desk behind every day.
Full page coming
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Bali: Terraces and Quiet Shores
8 nights
Eight gentle nights between Nusa Dua's calm beach and Ubud's green hills, with halal-certified hotel kitchens, Friday prayer at Nusa Dua's Ibnu Batutah mosque and a visit to Bali's oldest mosque at Gelgel.
Full page coming
Once
Longer, further, and built for a particular anniversary or a particular promise.
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Designed
Almaty: Mountains, Lakes and Falcons
8 nights
Eight unhurried nights in one five-star Almaty base: cable cars over the Tien Shan, an alpine lake, Kazakh nomad heritage and a falcon show, with Friday prayer at the Central Mosque and a nurse beside every step.
Full page coming
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Designed
Morocco's Two Capitals: Fes, Rabat and the Cedars of Ifrane
8 nights
Pray Dhuhr in the Qarawiyyin and Jumu'ah in Rabat. Enter Fes from the flat, lower end of its medina, and lunch among the cedars of Ifrane. A nurse travels with you, and no day has more than about three hours on the coach.
Full page coming
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Nour Al-Andalus: Seville, Granada and Cordoba
8 nights
Nine gentle spring days through the palaces and the great mosque of Al-Andalus, with a nurse at their side and prayer at the heart of every day.
Full page coming
A journey of its own
Japan is not the top of a ladder. It costs four times our shortest journey and more than twice the one below it, because it is a different journey for a different reason — an anniversary, or the one trip someone has talked about for thirty years. We sell it on its own terms.
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Japan in Blossom: Tokyo, Fuji and Kyoto
9 nights
Nine gentle nights under the cherry blossom: Friday prayer in Tokyo's grand mosque, a lakeside morning facing Mount Fuji, the Green Car bullet train to Kyoto's golden pavilion and halal-certified kitchens, with a registered nurse beside your parents the whole way.
Full page coming
About prices
Twelve of our thirteen journeys carry no price on this site, and Georgia does not yet either. That is not an oversight. We price from written supplier quotes, and those quotes are still being negotiated. The day a journey is contracted, its price, its dates and its deposit appear here in full, with what is and is not included.