Saudi’s Yasmine Idriss completes 1,400 km cycling trip around Iceland

Earlier this year, Yasmine Idriss sat down with Arab News just before setting off to Iceland to cycle the country’s Ring Road on the journey of a lifetime. Now, she has become the first Arab woman to complete the grueling trip.

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I’m y adris I’m the first Arab and Saudi woman to cycle the Ring Road of Iceland the beginning of the journey was super intense within an hour I was off my bike because of how intense the winds were I was being blown off the bike being blown off to oncoming traffic praying that there wasn’t a car or bus that was going to hit me it was a very

Brutal welcoming to what This Ring Road Journey was going to be about some days it was nonstop not even for a second and I it frustrated me so I was like why what is the purpose what can I be learning from this why is it so hard no

Matter how hard I pedal there was no way I was going to beat it and I needed to advance so my only resort was surrender and emotionally psychologically how that translated was I just let anything that needed to happen happen over 20 days on the bike it was an inward journey and it

Helped me answer some really big questions and it changed things in my life to make it so I’m I guess on a better path it feels amazing to be an Arab woman to have accomplished something um as challenging as this was I feel proud to be able to represent

Saudi women we do have a documentary coming out in 2024 about the entirety of this journey the internal Adventure Journey that I was on and the external beauty of Iceland um I open up quite a bit on what this was for me uh and what the heroin’s journey is really

Um The heroin’s Journey isn’t just a woman going through the hero’s journey the heroin’s journey has a lot more surrender embedded to it and that’s a huge theme of what Iceland was for Me