Gigantic rock arches and needles!
23 Mac 2023, Arab Saudi ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C
A different era of Rock engravings
21 Mac 2023, Arab Saudi ⋅ ☀️ 9 °C
Today we passed a water spring in full desert. This was surely a stop over for caravans on the "incense route" over centuries and so the rock engravings have changed. Accompanying the old cuneiformBaca lagi
On and on we go!
20 Mac 2023, Arab Saudi ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
Deeper and deeper into the sand
19 Mac 2023, Arab Saudi
We are driving deeper and deeper into the sand and break the record at one hill where everyone digs themselves in. After hours of digging and using sand tracks to get out, some of us promptly getBaca lagi
and the desert is calling.....
18 Mac 2023, Arab Saudi ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
From the craters, we drove to the North, getting deeper and deeper into the desert again, this time with deep loose sand between huge bizarre sandstone structures formed by millions of years of windBaca lagi
The land of 140 volcanos
15 Mac 2023, Arab Saudi ⋅ 🌬 17 °C
This region is one of 140 volcanos and huge lava fields. The fascinating thing is, they all vary in colour, from black through white and red.
On top of it these last weeks, there have been severalBaca lagi
The oasis Khaibar
14 Mac 2023, Arab Saudi ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
As we travel north, we pass through the oasis Khaibar in a basin of a huge volcanic area with ample water and fertile soils. For thousands of years this has been a stop on the frankincense routeBaca lagi
Medina; tomb of Mohammed
13 Mac 2023, Arab Saudi
Mohammed, born in Mecca, was kicked out when he started preaching a new religion. He fled to Medina on a she camel, and where this camel kneeled down, god told him that this was the place to build theBaca lagi
And so we fled back into nature
12 Mac 2023, Arab Saudi ⋅ 🌙 25 °C
Cities are always stress, here in Saudi all the more, due to the "cruisers" showing off their big engines, exhaust pipes or sound systems around 02:00 in the morning. We were longing for silence andBaca lagi
Sleepless nights while "cruisers" cruise
11 Mac 2023, Arab Saudi ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
Having not slept the previous night, in the afternoon, we drove north to the edge of the city on an inlet from the sea in the hope of finding a quite place.
Exactly the opposite happened!
As sunsetBaca lagi
Duty's done, now follows pleasure, lunch
10 Mac 2023, Arab Saudi ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
The whole quarter is smelling of fresh rooti bread and curry. We continue to follow the crowd and end up in a square drinking chai.
Jeddah: midday prayer and the day starts
10 Mac 2023, Arab Saudi ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
While strolling through the old city centre, we had the pleasure to participate in the friday midday prayer because it was broadcast via loudspeakers in the area. Hardly had the last thanks to AllahBaca lagi
Jeddah: multi-culti on the red sea
9 Mac 2023, Arab Saudi ⋅ 🌬 31 °C
Jeddah is Saudi Arabias trading port and a melting pot of ethnicities, endlessly long along the red sea.
We arrived on Thursday evening, the beginning of the moslem weekend knowing that this would beBaca lagi
Ash Shafa-a true Saudi picnic
8 Mac 2023, Arab Saudi ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Today we are in Ash Shafa, 2200 meters high, and the place where the Saudi King has his residence when the government moves to Al Ta'if in the summer months.
For hours we watched troops of baboonsBaca lagi
Today, under the sign of RUBBISH
7 Mac 2023, Arab Saudi ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
We are on the way to Jeddah, near Medina and Mecca and it is aparently time to remind us of the reality of the arabian peninsula concerning the topic of rubbish.
As we travelled through huge regionsBaca lagi
700km to Al Wabah crater
7 Mac 2023, Arab Saudi ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
700km through a desert sand storm, that is not an experience to be repeated! Our "Sprinti" was jumping across the road like a feather while sand took over the highway.
When we arrived at the Al WahbahBaca lagi
Back to Nature, "Edge of the world"
5 Mac 2023, Arab Saudi ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
We fled Riad after a night awake, as Lamborghini and Ferrari raced from one side of the city to the other demonstrating their sound and power, to the escarpment, called "Edge of the world", where theBaca lagi
Riad, capital of Saudi Arabia
3 Mac 2023, Arab Saudi ⋅ 🌙 24 °C
Riad was a disappointment!
8 million people living in the middle of the flat desert, of which a small part is endlessly rich, living in huge palaces and racing around at night in lamborghinis while aBaca lagi
Found it! Al Asfar lake
1 Mac 2023, Arab Saudi ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
Yesterday, we ended up in the salty mud, so today we retraced our tracks and tried a new route, and found the place we were looking for, a small dune bordering on the lake and slowly advancing intoBaca lagi
Back in Saudi, looking for Al Asfar lake
1 Mac 2023, Arab Saudi ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Today, we crossed the border into Saudia Arabia with the typical border problems of no one knowing what is really needed. We then headed off into the desert, looking for Al Asfar Lake near Hofuf.Baca lagi
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque
27 Februari 2023, Emiriah Arab Bersatu ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C
What a beautiful building, even if it is the biggest in the world!
Full of aesthetic materials from all countries of the world and carried out with incredible craftsmanship.
All designs are done withBaca lagi
Abu Dhabi, so much more relaxed
26 Februari 2023, Emiriah Arab Bersatu ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
After Dubai, Abu Dhabi seemed very relaxed and quite empty with a beautiful "cornische" along the water front.
To spend the night, we drove out to one of the many islands thinking it would be quiteBaca lagi
Dubai Fountain, Burj Khalifa
24 Februari 2023, Emiriah Arab Bersatu
We then moved on to the "Dubai Mall", a shopping mall the size of a small city and of course the biggest in the world. Everything shining in marble, so clean you could eat from the floor with anBaca lagi
"The frame"
24 Februari 2023, Emiriah Arab Bersatu ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
In a totally spaced-out state we then went up "The Frame", literally a 150m high picture frame through which the Sheikh Rashid ibn Saeed Al Maktoum, could look from the old Dubai to the new DubaiBaca lagi
Dubai, land of Illusion
24 Februari 2023, Arab Saudi ⋅ 🌙 27 °C
Time to open our hearts for the craziness of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, both swimming in oil money with especially Dubai known for having completely lost contact to the ground.
With a small boat trip onBaca lagi
Back to Khasab, as the hornets shoot by
23 Februari 2023, Oman ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
Today, we return to Khassab.
As we motor along, suddenly they appear again on the horizon, the hornets, the smugglers from Iran. (Approx 100-150 speedboats per day). This time, they pass real close,Baca lagi




































































































































































































































































































































































































































