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Tag: Jeddah
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Travel Day
Well, the day has come to leave Saudi Arabia. We’ve spent almost a month here (with a detour to Bahrain), but we think we’ve managed our time well to see very different regions of the country. Not a bad trip at all! But we can’t just leave without having our last stroll. Remember how my…
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Jeddah – Day 7
Alright, our last full day in Jeddah and in Saudi Arabia. Let’s start it off well. If you’ve been following our trip, you’ll know why we’re taking a picture with our breakfast, hehe. Today my partner took some time to actually leave the hotel because he’s getting ready for the next leg of our adventure.…
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Jeddah – Day 6
We’re back in Jeddah because we have more options for direct flights out of Jeddah than Madinah. As you can imagine, we are soon going to have to leave Saudi Arabia. We’ve already spent about a month traveling around this big country, but… we still don’t have any idea where we’re going to go next.…
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Travel Day
We wake up in Madinah and see something we haven’t seen in a long, long time… clouds/fog! As we mentioned in our last post, we can’t stay any longer in Madinah because we can’t get a hotel room. But, we also can’t leave Madinah on a Friday before witnessing the Friday prayer. So, with that…
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Travel Day
We had a big internal debate as to where to go next. We will explain why. As we have previously mentioned, Saudi Arabia has been a country that has closed itself off from foreign tourists for most of our lifetimes. While you could get special permission to enter the country for certain specific things (work…
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Jeddah – Day 5
Our last full day in Jeddah. Well… we spent longer than we should have in the hotel today, so we had a late start. But! It was necessary to plan where to go next, how, and when. And plus, we didn’t have any plans so it will be a slow day, perfect. We’ll start as…
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Jeddah – Day 4
My travel partner is incapable of relaxing two days in a row, so today we have an actual plan. Let’s make it count! We leave the hotel and walk straight south through Al Balad. There aren’t many people walking around yet, unless you’re here for your fruits. We guess it wasn’t just a Friday thing. …
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Jeddah – Day 3
Hmm… we’ve had a few busy days in a row, so let’s take it a little slower today. What really happens is that we’ve been wasting our day by sitting in the hotel, doing some laundry, and looking up some beaches to go to and swim. That last part has been unsuccessful… There seems to…
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Jeddah – Day 2
Today we have no real plans, in the sense that our plan is just to aimlessly walk around our neighbourhood. Since we don’t plan on entering anything, I’ll let my partner wear shorts. It’s hot out, and we will be walking around a lot. Let’s go! Today we will pretend to be architects and explain…
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Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – Day 1
So after a busy day yesterday, let’s try to take it a little calmer. Calmer, but not with any less walking, you’ll see. So, what are we going to do? Well, Saudi Arabia is trying to make a name for itself in the tourism industry and is taking a page out of Dubai’s playbook by…