Destination
Dammam & Al Khobar
The Gulf coast cities, and the base for Al Ahsa and the Eastern Province.
Start from a place rather than a package: what is there, when it is worth going, and which journeys include it.
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AlUla
A sandstone valley in the north-west holding Hegra, the inscriptions at Jabal Ikmah, and an oasis farmed for thousands of years.
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Riyadh
The capital: the National Museum, the mud-brick city the country grew from, and the escarpment an hour outside it.
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Abha
The Asir highlands, high enough that the summer stays cool and green while the rest of the country does not.
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The Red Sea
Reefs along the western coast that have had very few divers on them, reached from Umluj, Yanbu and Jeddah.
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Madinah
A city of orchards and volcanic plains in the Hejaz. Non-Muslim visitors can see the city; the central mosque area is restricted.
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Saudi Arabia
The country page - how the regions fit together, and how long each one needs.
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Najran
The far south near the Yemeni border, with mud-brick architecture and the pre-Islamic site of Al-Ukhdud.
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Rijal Almaa
A stone-and-quartz village in the Asir mountains, its towers painted inside in the local style.
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The Empty Quarter
Rub al Khali - the largest continuous sand desert on earth, entered from the south and east.
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Tabuk
The north-west: desert, the Hisma sandstone country, and the coast toward the Gulf of Aqaba.