Saudi Arabia
34 destinations
City Abha
"A mountain city where mist wraps painted houses and the air smells of juniper after rain."
City Al Ahsa Oasis
"Historic springs and open canals raised 2.5 million palms beneath a furnace sky."
Water Al Lith
"Whale sharks gather each spring in warm shallows where the desert meets the Red Sea."
Mountain Al Soudah
"Saudi Arabia's rooftop, where juniper forests cling to ridges three thousand metres above the desert."
City Al-Ula
"Nabataean tombs carved into sandstone cliffs that glow amber at dusk."
City Buraidah
"Mountains of amber dates piled in a hangar-sized hall at one of Earth's biggest date markets."
City Diriyah
"Mud-brick fortress walls still sharp-edged against the Najdi sky after three centuries."
City Dumat al-Jandal
"Marid Castle crowns a silent oasis where caravans rested for millennia beneath its towers."
Mountain Edge of the World
"A cliff edge where the land simply stops and flat desert stretches to infinity."
Water Farasan Islands
"Gazelles graze between Ottoman ruins on a Red Sea archipelago ringed by living coral."
Water Haql
"A rusting cargo ship half-swallowed by turquoise shallows on a beach facing the Gulf of Aqaba."
Wilderness Hisma Desert
"Red sandstone towers erupt from golden sand like a landscape sculpted on another planet."
Mountain Jabal Aja
"Red granite peaks rising from the desert like frozen flames, hiding palm-filled clefts and springs."
City Jeddah Al-Balad
"Coral-stone towers with carved wooden balconies leaning over spice-scented alleys."
Water Jizan
"A tropical port city where African-influenced markets and mangrove creeks meet the Red Sea."
Wilderness Jubbah
"Petroglyphs of camels, ibex and hunters carved into sandstone ten thousand years ago."
Wilderness Rub' al Khali
"Dunes two hundred metres high stretching unbroken to every horizon, silence pressing like weight."
Mountain Sha'ib Luha
"Seasonal waterfalls carving pools into red desert rock, an hour from Riyadh's glass skyline."
Mountain Ta'if
"Damask roses carpeting mountain terraces where Saudi royals once escaped the lowland heat."
Mountain Tanomah
"Juniper forests catching cloud on mountain ridges where baboons patrol the misty undergrowth."
Water Tarout Island
"A Dilmun temple buried beneath a Portuguese-era fort on one of Arabia's oldest inhabited islands."
City Tayma
"An oasis inhabited for six thousand years whose ancient stele now stands in the Louvre."
Water Umluj
"Coral islands ringed by shallow turquoise water so clear the seabed glows from shore."
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Legendary Destinations
Little-known places, unlike anywhere else, that leave you awestruck and full of stories.
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Black stone circles a bowl of brilliant white salt.
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Golden cliffs hide doorways carved for the dead.
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Look down from one home and you may be looking at another roof.
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Once, the way home to this cliffside village was a rope.
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Ochre, turquoise and crimson climb a mountainside in stone towers.
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The pillars have stood in the desert longer than most cities have existed.
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A canyon wall keeps thousands of pictures from lives long past.
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White houses sit above green plantations, wrapped in mountain mist.
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Black glass in the sand marks a meeting between desert and space.
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Beyond the red walls, palms and pools keep a quieter world.
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In a desert gorge, the walls squeeze close around falling water.