About RJ Travel
The operator that goes where others won’t — and brings you back safely.
Since 2018, RJ Travel has operated licensed tours to Morocco, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, and 30+ destinations across the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia. Over 10,000 travelers served.
10,000+
Travelers served
30+
Destinations
600+
5-star reviews
0
Safety evacuations
Founder & CEO
João Leitão
145 UN+ countries · Tour leader across Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Iraq, Yemen, & Afghanistan · IATI Award 2022 — Best Travel Blog
João Leitão has been travelling the world independently since 1999. Over the course of more than two decades on the road — across more than 145 UN+ recognised countries and regions on all seven continents — he built Nomad Revelations into one of the most widely read adventure travel platforms -speaking world, attracting millions of readers annually, millions of YouTube views per year, and more than 100 million Pinterest views per year.
In 2022, João Leitão Viagens was awarded the IATI Prize for Best Travel Blog — widely regarded as the Oscars of the Iberian travel blogging world — competing against prominent finalists.
His work has been featured in the Daily Mail, Wanderlust Magazine, Lonely Planet Pathfinders, Insight Guides, Público, DN Magazine, La Presse, TVI 24, Globo, eDreams, and momondo, among others.
João founded RJ Travel in 2018 with a single premise: that the most meaningful destinations on earth — Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Afghanistan, Algeria — deserve a tour operator who has actually been there. He has personally led group tours across many of them. Every guide, every hotel, and every itinerary the company sells has been verified by João firsthand.
I built the company I wished existed when I started travelling to these places in the early 2000s. No outsourcing. No guesswork. No Western tour leaders who read about a country last month. Just people who have been there, built real relationships, and know how to keep you safe while showing you something extraordinary.
RJ Travel holds active tourism licences in both the UAE (SHAMS Authority, Licence No. 2323876) and Morocco (Ministry of Tourism, Licence No. ODV-13817), and is a registered member of the Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA).
Featured & mentioned in
Daily Mail • Wanderlust • Lonely Planet • Público • Insight Guides • eDreams • Momondo • La Presse • DN Magazine • TVI 24 • Globo • Ekonomista
Brand collaborations
Lonely Planet • Hilton • Hyatt Regency • Mercedes-Benz • Sultanate of Oman • Visit Morocco • Amazing Thailand • Turismo de Portugal • Kyrgyzstan Tourism
Reservations & Support
The people handling your trip
The people who answer your messages, build your itinerary and keep your booking on track — reachable by WhatsApp, email and live chat from early morning to late evening, six days a week. One team, one file, no call centre.
Jamila Al Qadi
Reservations & Client Care
Your first point of contact by WhatsApp, email and live chat. Jamila builds your itinerary, answers your questions and arranges your deposit.
Available: Mon–Sat · 08:00–16:00 (GMT+1)
Zaina Nid Abdelkrim
Enquiries & Traveller Files
Handles incoming enquiries across email and WhatsApp, logs every traveller detail and prepares your file before it reaches the operations team.
Available: Mon–Sat · 14:00–22:00 (GMT+1)
North Africa Branch — Marrakech, Morocco
On the ground in Morocco
Our Marrakech office is the same team behind marrocos.com — they also handle RJ Travel’s English enquiries at info@rjtravelagency.com by email, WhatsApp and live chat, from early morning to overnight.
Every guide is local — by policy
We do not hire Western guides for our Middle East or North Africa destinations. A guide born and raised in Sana’a, Baghdad, or the Bamiyan Valley will show you something no outsider can teach from a briefing document. Local knowledge is not a selling point — it is the product.
Two licensed entities, one standard
We operate under UAE tourism licence No. 2323876 (SHAMS Authority) and Moroccan Ministry of Tourism licence No. ODV-13817. Both are active, audited, and verifiable. We are also a registered member of the Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA).
Beyond the colleagues above, RJ Travel also runs a digital team — multilingual assistants who answer email, WhatsApp and chat around the clock, working hand-in-hand with our human specialists. Read more about our digital team →
Ready to go somewhere most people never will?
Talk to the team directly. No automated responses, no call centres — a real person who knows your destination.
