Travel blogger Avant le lettre. Surprisingly current, considering Byron visited Iran and Afghanistan, as well as the greater Middle East, in 1933/4. A local Jewish leader in Jerusalem: "If the country is to be developed, the Arabs must suffer..."
Though, current travel bloggers no longer need to internalise the knowledge Byron left home with, now all just a Google search away.

Byron, perhaps not surprisingly for a 20-something European backpacker, is awed by, particularly, the architecture he encounters, with occasional hints of feelings of superiority towards the locals, and disdain towards fellow European tourists and travellers. Particularly those that don't take a year or two to move around, but rush in on steamships to take a week's whirlwind tour of the Holy Land, say, dressed in shorts, with cameras hanging around their necks.
How little has changed, indeed.