Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia Attractions

From the Nabataean tombs at Hegra to the Asir highlands, the Empty Quarter and the Red Sea coast — the places a trip to Saudi Arabia is built around.

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Best Attractions in Saudi Arabia

The places with the most written about them, and the ones most trips are planned around.

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Saudi Arabia's first UNESCO World Heritage site, and the largest Nabataean city south of Petra.

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The capital of the Dadan and Lihyan kingdoms, cut into the cliffs above the AlUla oasis.

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An open-air library of pre-Arabic inscriptions on the rock walls of a desert canyon.

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A 52-metre sandstone outcrop weathered into the shape of an elephant.

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A mud-brick town of around 900 houses, abandoned in the 1980s and now partly restored.

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A concert hall clad entirely in mirrors, standing in the Ashar valley.

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The mud-brick district that was the capital of the first Saudi state, and a World Heritage site.

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The old merchant quarter of the Red Sea port, listed by UNESCO in 2014.

By region

Pick a city to see what is in reach of it.

By type

Browse heritage sites, old towns, mountains, deserts, oases and coast.

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Tours

Put the places together into a private itinerary — journeys of several days, or a single day out.

Multi-day private journeys across AlUla, Riyadh, Jeddah and the south.

Single days out from the city you are already in.