Among the very limited number of travel narratives in Turkish literature, Nâbî’s Tuhfetü’l-harameyn has a significant place. In this work Nâbî describes his pilgrimage journey of approximately one year in 1089-1090/1678-9. Nâbî journeyed from İstanbul to Cairo in a small special group including his friend Râmî Mehmed [Paşa]. He describes sites and buildings of historical, religious and social importance in Urfa, Damascus, Jerusalem, Cairo, Mecca and Medina. This article, first of all, focuses on factors leading Nâbî to make such a dangerous and arduous pilgrimage journey to Cairo, and then to compose the narrative. Then the journey, for the phases of which Nâbî generally gives no date, is described in a factual way with the help of clues in Nâbî’s own remarks. At the end of the article, dates given by modern researchers for the composition of the narrative are discussed.