Holiday Inn Hafr Al Batin
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A night in Saudi Arabia
... sleep a bit in the praying room at the airport but that was no success so I got up early again and prepared for the trip to India.
Practical stuff
- The minimum amount you can take from the ATM is quite a lot. You can also change 5 or 10 USD (what I did) so at least you can buy some water and coffee.
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Epilogue: The Kingdom
... middle of the super scorching desert, this is the royal metropolis, 'The Kingdom', with it's wide freeways and equally wide Hummers and Cartier encrushed Bentleys. Cars that cut through the desert, where amazingly opulent mosques rise up and form a very unique landscape. A landscape that pulses with the heat for 24 hours a day, rising into the 50's in July, and in the mid 40's today. Even at 21.00 the heat outside is "like being in an oven". A phrase I have heard ...
First Camp Out!
... walked the trail our entire group had done the day before to play it safe.
Things heated up quickly and all the campers were on the road in no time. As a final treat we ran across a Bedouin walking his heard of camels somewhere. Sometimes the people here are very sensitive about having their pictures taken, but he wasn't. He was quite friendly. What a wonderful end to a pleasant first camp out.
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Camel Souk
After my first camp out, we stopped at the major camel souk (camel market) of Riyadh.
It's pretty rustic. A lot of crude pens, kind of cobbled together with streets (dirt roads) that meander throughout it.
We had come on a Friday, which is the slowest day of the week because it is like the Sundays in the west, so there wasn't much going on. I didn't take as many pictures as I should have, so I'll have to return for a more complete ...
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Amenities
- Restaurant
- Swimming pool
- Wheelchair accessibility
- Fitness/Health center
- Business Services
- Free parking
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