Saudi Arabia
Global Traveler Guidebook: Jeddah
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October 2018
Oct 1, 2018May 2018
May 1, 2018Jeddah: Winds of Change
SAUDI ARABIA IS CHANGING, with Jeddah leading the way. The Red Sea port has always been the most liberal city in the kingdom (perhaps surprisingly, because it is also the arrival point for millions of devout pilgrims to nearby Mecca, Islam’s holiest city). Even when the country’s religious police, the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, were at their most draconian, Jeddah provided a degree of leeway.
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April 2017
Apr 1, 2017Saudi Arabia Sustainable Development
FROM JEDDAH TO RIYADH, we make the 500-mile journey on a pristine highway heading inland from the coast, skirting Mecca, climbing the Rift Valley escarpment and then traversing the unrelieved, pale flatness of the Arabian Desert. The road has clear purpose: linking Saudi Arabia’s two most important cities. Less clear is the purpose of the bridges that straddle it at regular intervals. There are no roads or rail tracks across them. They are bridges from nowhere, to nowhere.