Makkah Hilton Mecca

... you literally are rubbing shoulders with people from Iran, Indonesia, Palestine, Malaysia, etc. I love seeing the men in African caftans and Irani turbans, women in shalwar khameez and traditional Indonesian dress.

I finished seven circuits around the Ka'ba then sat to wait for my husband and father-in-law to finish. While waiting I struck up a conversation with a couple of women sitting next to me who were from Palestine; no time for anything more than ...

... or weaving straw mats and rugs. FABULOUS night, and a fantastic opportunity to soak up traditional Arabic culture.

We got back to the hotel to crash, then were up early again the next morning to visit some dams built about 3000 years ago (although not doing the intended job due to not a drop of water being in sight! Apparently, Taif is usually rather green, but as we are back home, have been hit rather hard by drought in the last few years.) We did a bit of a city tour, stopped ...

... out quad bikes and I paid about three dollars to drive one up and down the corniche a few times with my sister-in-law on the back.

After breakfast we drove along the corniche to look at all the different monuments and the water, and new developments being built -- mostly restaurants and recreational parks. At the end we stopped at the large fish market, which unfortunately does not allow photography. There were some amazing fish for ...

This is by far the most tedious part of the drive. Eight hours of virtually nothing but scrubby landscape with the occasional rocky outcrop. There are exits now and then but no cities to speak of. Fortunately the kids were sacked out sleeping, so I plugged my iPod into the car stereo and we listened to a variety of lectures and songs. This is when I am most concerned about my husband -- and only driver -- becoming fatigued and needing to pull ...

Umroh Eksklusif-UMROH KELUARGA Anda dilayani secara khusus. Paket Umroh keluarga eksklusif, dengan kelebihan sbb: -Anda dapat menentukan sendiri jadwal keberangkatan.-Pelaksanaan perjalanan umroh dan bimbingan ibadah secara privite, karena hanya anda dan keluarga yang kami layani.-Program ibadah dan kegiatan selama di tanah suci dapat anda atur sendiri berkoordinasi dengan guide khusus anda, sehingga tidak ada ...

... so far on our journey. He spoke utterly no English at all, but that did not deter him from going on and on for the entire trip. With my smattering of Arabic I gleaned that he had kids in college back in Cairo and that he could make much more driving in Saudi than he could doing anything else in Egypt. At prayer times we always pulled over to a gas station to make our 'salat' in the local mosque, usually in the back, and then have a hot cup of turkish coffee that is ...

Amazing to be here! This is the first and original mosque to have ever been built. We believe it to have been ordered of Abraham to be built at this location by God. This is the culmination of a lot of anticipation in every Muslimīs life!

We arrived in Mecca at almost midnight, probably around 11 pm. The journey from Medina to Mecca is almost as long as the journey from Jeddah to Medina, cause Mecca is not that far from Jeddah. All through the journey to Mecca, my mum constantly remind me not to get too close to my husband, altough ...

... kali seminggu. Saya pantau pemakanan dan kesihatan mereka. Saya mula mengajar hukum hakam berkaitan dengan urusan umrah/haji dan mengingatkan mereka supaya sentiasa berdoa agar Allah memberi yang terbaik untuk kami, diterima ibadah kami dan kesihatan yang sempurna sepanjang kami disana. Kami mengikuti satu rombongan kecil dari hajj operator yang cukup berpengalaman. Urusan dr awal hinggal akhir diuruskan dengan sempurna. Penerbangan kami tiba di Jeddah dan terus dibawa ke ...

Pertama kalinya aq ke luar negeri... n pertama kalinya aq naek pesawat besar! seperti yang ditipi-tipi.. wah, pokoknya kayak orang ndeso banget.. Saat naik pesawat, WOW!!! besar banget ya! dua tingkat. Digiring ke tingkat atas, sesuai urutan, duduk paling belakang, dekat dengan tangga ke tingkat dasar. Pramugarinya cuantik-cantik n guanteng-ganteng.. :) bersih, rapi, n cas cis cus pake bahasa Inggris. Beda ...