影片讲述的是十四世纪巨大的旅里手Ibn Batutaa 为了心中的渴看千里迢迢前往麦加朝圣的故事。正在经过麦加之旅后，Ibn 又先后游历了四十多个国家，包括如今的印度和中国。如今人们以他的名字命名了月球上的一个火山口，以纪念他的巨大旅行。 随着他的脚印，我们一同穿越了沙漠，经历了艰险，度过了红海，终极到达了圣地麦加。IMAX 把沙漠的广袤，地平线的尽头，种种山峦地貌的奇异，都逼真的展如今我们四面。那种体验让人生出一种正在自然界降服的气力，领会到了为什么Ibn 还有历史上那些了不起的旅里手会如此痴迷和顽固于走遍地面。

The 20 year old Muslim religious law student Ibn Battuta (1304–1368), whose full name was Abu Abdullah Muhammed Ibn Abdullah Al Lawati Al Tanji Ibn Battuta, set out from Tangier, a city in northern Morocco, in 1325, on a pilgrimage to Mecca, some 3,000 miles (over 4,800 km) to the East. The journey took him 18 months to complete and along the way he met with misfortune and adversity, including attack by bandits, rescue by Bedouins, fierce sand storms and dehydration.