A half day inside the Al-Ahsa Oasis, which covers more than 85 square kilometres and holds more than 2.5 million palm trees. Guinness World Records recognises it as the largest palm oasis in the world, and UNESCO added it to the World Heritage List in 2018 as an evolving cultural landscape of gardens, canals, springs and wells.
The day is spent inside that system rather than looking at it from the main road: date farms, the water channels that run between the plots, and stops wherever something is worth getting out for. This is farmland still being worked, not a preserved site, so what you see depends on the time of year. If you want the rock as well, Al Qarah Mountain stands on the edge of the same oasis in Al Ahsa and can be added.
Day by day
Pick-up and into the gardens
Hotel pick-up in Al Ahsa and a drive into the palm gardens, leaving the main roads for the tracks between the plots.
Farms, water and dates
Time at a date farm and at the water channels and springs that keep the oasis working, with stops for photographs along the way. Drop-off at your hotel at the end of the half day.
What is included
- Hotel pick-up and drop-off in Al Ahsa
- Private air-conditioned vehicle for the half day
- English-speaking driver
- Time at a working date farm inside the oasis
- Stops at the canals and springs with time out of the vehicle
- Bottled water
- Fuel, parking and road tolls
- Entrance fees at any site on the route that charges for entry
What is not
- Meals and drinks
- Dates or produce you buy at the farm
- Hotel accommodation
- Gratuities
- Flights and transfers into Al Ahsa
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