Articles tagged with "Saudi Arabia"
Saudi Arabia is not one climate. The interior, the Red Sea coast and the south-western highlands behave differently enough to change what you pack and what you can do in a day.
Saudi Arabia requires a visa, and for most leisure travelers that means an electronic authorisation valid for two years. Here is what it covers, what it does not, and the one date that turns people around.
Saudi Arabia has a short, excellent season and a long, punishing one. The calendar that actually governs a trip here is partly solar and partly lunar, and the second one moves every year.
Historic Jeddah is the last substantial survival of the Red Sea architectural tradition, a quarter of tower houses hung with carved wooden screens, built by merchants who served the pilgrimage.
At-Turaif was the first capital of the Saudi dynasty and is the clearest surviving example of Najdi architecture. It sits on the edge of an oasis half an hour from central Riyadh.
Hegra was the first site in Saudi Arabia to be inscribed on the World Heritage List. It is the largest surviving Nabataean settlement south of Petra, and its tombs are cut straight into the sandstone.