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Historic Jeddah
Martina Rúčková Slovakia - 28-Jan-23
Jeddah is the second largest city in Saudi Arabia with a population of nearly five million. The country's commercial centre and the gateway for pilgrims to Mecca. Jeddah is also considered to be the cultural centre of Saudi and the most liberal city in the country. Of course, we couldn't miss it on our journey across the country. Generally, it's an easy visit as there are regular bus and air connections not only from Saudi, but also neighbouring countries.
The drive in was surprisingly long. Not surprisingly, the city is indeed sprawling, and we passed clusters of buildings, commercial and multifunctional centers for dozens of kilometers on the highway. Then comes the attempt to get somewhere near the historic centre of Al-Balad, a World Heritage Site. Remember my previous reviews and my mindless yapping on the subject of permanent reconstruction? Well, Jeddah is no different. One entire neighborhood in the wider city center adjacent to the old city has been practically razed to the ground and is apparently being reconstructed or outright redeveloped. Some roads are blocked or traffic is being diverted because of this
Read OnHegra
Martina Rúčková Slovakia - 22-Jan-23
Hegra is Saudi Arabia's paramount tourist attraction and one of the few boasting of an excellent infrastructure ready to handle mass tourism. Correction, it's actually the only place in Saudi Arabia where mass tourism is practiced. Tours are booked in advance and the choices are endless - just choose how much time and money you want to give Hegra. We opted for the classic three-hour guided bus tour, but you can spend a full day here, go privately on a jeep and have a picnic amid the desert sights.
Read OnRijal Almaa Heritage Village in Assir Region (T)
Martina Rúčková Slovakia - 02-Jan-23
For this leg of the trip, Ivan and I met up with Thomas and his wife Vanessa who were also travelling around Saudi, testing out their public means of transport. We met up in Abha and spent three days travelling together. Our first outing was the Rijal Almaa Heritage Village located about an hour of a scenic route uphill from Abha. The road is alright, unlike the madness that is the mountain segment of the road from Jeddah to Abha, where I genuinely feared for my life for some really crazy overtaking.
Read OnZee Ain Heritage Village in Al-Baha Region (T)
Martina Rúčková Slovakia - 30-Dec-22
Zee (also marked as Thee) Ain Heritage Village is a nice detour on the drive from Jeddah to Abha and we enjoyed our visit, I have to say more than Wojciech did. The best visit is definitely by a car as it's off the main road and there are some nice viewpoints along the way. The village is a lovely cluster of houses built out of polished stone, which gave it a moniker of Marble Village. Its official name comes after the river that gathers its water from nearby mountains. It was established in the tenth century and many large tribal battles and invasions took place on its grounds before Saudi unification. The most prominent battle that took place in this region was when the collective force of Zahran and Ghamd tribes clashed with the Turkish army led by Muhammad Ali Pasha
Read OnHejaz Railway (T)
Martina Rúčková Slovakia - 30-Dec-22
Hejaz Railway is an interesting nomination and I would say my favourite in Saudi out of the four large serial ones (the three others are pilgrimage hajj routes). It's a coherent collection of sites with an interesting story and many places to see in still quite decent shape. The Hejaz railway was a narrow gauge railway, named after the Hijaz region of present-day Saudi Arabia through which it ran. It connected Damascus in present-day Syria with Medina in Saudi Arabia, with a branch line to Haifa (present-day Israel). It was part of the Ottoman railway network and its original purpose was to connect Damascus and Mecca with Istanbul. The builders' grandiose plans were thwarted by the First World War; only the Damascus-Medina line, which was 1,300 kilometres long, was built
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Rating StatsAngkor 5Baalbek 5Istanbul 5Meteora 5Pompei 5Rome 5Granada 4.5Hampi 4.5Hegra 4.5Lake District 4.5Lena Pillars 4.5Matera 4.5Prague 4.5Putorana Plateau 4.5Sigiriya 4.5Vienna 4.5Westminster 4.5Belem 4Brugge 4Budapest 4Bukhara 4Cordoba 4Derbent 4Ephesus 4Florence 4Hoi An 4Hué 4Koh Ker 4Kraków 4Naples 4Oporto 4Paphos 4Pergamon 4Ravenna 4Salzburg 4Segovia 4Seville 4Siena 4Sintra 4Syracuse 4Tallinn 4Toledo 4Trang An 4Valletta 4Visby 4Anjar 3.5Anuradhapura 3.5Assisi 3.5Avila 3.5Bamberg 3.5Ban Chiang 3.5Bauhaus Sites 3.5Bisotun 3.5Bryggen 3.5Brú na Bóinne 3.5Burgundy 3.5Butrint 3.5Cesky Krumlov 3.5Cuenca 3.5Delos 3.5Dong Phayayen 3.5Dougga/Thugga 3.5El Tajin 3.5Ellora Caves 3.5Garajonay 3.5Golestan Palace 3.5Gordion 3.5Hattusha 3.5Historic Cairo 3.5Humayun's Tomb 3.5Ironbridge Gorge 3.5Isole Eolie 3.5Kerkuane 3.5Kew Gardens 3.5Kotor 3.5Kronborg Castle 3.5Kutna Hora 3.5Le Morne 3.5Lyon 3.5Lübeck 3.5Masada 3.5Medina Azahara 3.5Medina of Fez 3.5Medina of Tunis 3.5Mostar 3.5Nice 3.5Old City of Acre 3.5Olympia 3.5Pattadakal 3.5Persian Garden 3.5Pienza 3.5Pont du Gard 3.5Potsdam 3.5Puebla 3.5Qadisha Valley 3.5Querétaro 3.5Qutb Minar 3.5Regensburg 3.5Reims 3.5Rhodes 3.5Riga 3.5Sambor Prei Kuk 3.5San Gimignano 3.5Selimiye Mosque 3.5Shushtar 3.5Sighisoara 3.5Sinharaja Forest 3.5Skogskyrkogarden 3.5Split 3.5Strasbourg 3.5Tabriz Bazaar 3.5Tequila 3.5Thingvellir 3.5Torun 3.5Trier 3.5Trogir 3.5Troy 3.5Val d'Orcia 3.5Vall de Boi 3.5Vat Phou 3.5Verona 3.5Vilnius 3.5Viñales Valley 3.5Volubilis 3.5Wadi Al-Hitan 3.5Warsaw 3.5Wartburg Castle 3.5Western Ghats 3.5Xanthos-Letoon 3.5Xochicalco 3.5Zacatecas 3.5Çatalhöyük 3.5Aquileia 3Aranjuez 3Arles 3Belfries 3Bolgar 3Bordeaux 3Byblos 3Caceres 3Carthage 3Corvey 3Elvas 3Ferrara 3Genoa 3Hollókö 3L'viv 3Le Havre 3Mafra 3Morelia 3Mtskheta 3Mystras 3Mérida 3Nancy 3Nessebar 3Novgorod 3Pearling 3Provins 3Qalhat 3Rabat 3Røros 3Tarraco 3Telc 3Tyre 3Urbino 3Vézelay 3Yazd 3Zamość 3Al Ain 2.5Al-Ahsa Oasis 2.5Ancient Merv 2.5Bahla Fort 2.5Boyana Church 2.5Camino Real 2.5Choirokoitia 2.5Cienfuegos 2.5Crespi d'Adda 2.5Danube Limes 2.5Drottningholm 2.5Evora 2.5Graz 2.5Historic Jeddah 2.5Ibiza 2.5Ivrea 2.5Jelling 2.5Kandy 2.5Kernavė 2.5Litomysl Castle 2.5Luther Memorials 2.5Madara Rider 2.5Maymand 2.5Mazagan 2.5Meknes 2.5Mir Castle 2.5Modena 2.5Modernist Kaunas 2.5My Son 2.5Nesvizh 2.5New Lanark 2.5Sammallahdenmäki 2.5ShUM Sites 2.5Speyer Cathedral 2.5Stevns Klint 2.5Stećci 2.5Tanbaly 2.5Thang Long 2.5Turaif Quarter 2.5Vegaøyan 2.5Vlkolinec 2.5Úbeda and Baeza 2.5Camagüey 2Corfu 2Nisa 2Saltaire 2Sarazm 2Saryarka 2Susa 2Trebic 2Aapravasi Ghat 1.5Al Zubarah 1.5Battir 1.5Hortobágy 1.5Kuldiga 1.5Pasargadae 1.5Schokland 1.5Reviewed WHS
- Historic Jeddah
- Hegra
- Rock Art in the Hail Region
- Al-Ahsa Oasis
- Turaif Quarter
- Derbent
- Putorana Plateau
- Petroglyphs of the Lake Onega and the White Sea
- Churches of the Pskov School of Architecture
- Landscapes of Dauria
- Central Sikhote-Alin
- Sambor Prei Kuk
- Preah Vihear Temple
- Koh Ker
- My Son
- Hoi An
- Hué
- Phong Nha - Ke Bang
- Citadel of the Ho Dynasty
- Trang An
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago
- Thang Long
- Vlkolinec
- Aggtelek and Slovak Karst
- Tyre
- Qadisha Valley
- Byblos
- Anjar
- Baalbek
- Pearling
- Sigiriya
- Qalhat
- Western Caucasus
- Lake Baikal
- Virgin Komi Forests
- Ferapontov Monastery
- Volcanoes of Kamchatka
- Lena Pillars
- Sarazm
- Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
- Tauric Chersonese
Visited TWHS
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